TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring topological photonics in synthetic dimensions
AU - Price, Hannah M.
AU - Ozawa, Tomoki
AU - Goldman, Nathan
AU - Zilberberg, Oded
AU - Carusotto, Iacopo
PY - 2019/10/17
Y1 - 2019/10/17
N2 - In recent years, topological photonics has emerged as an exciting research field in which topological concepts, originally introduced to understand the behaviour of electrons in solid-state materials, are instead exploited to design and control the behaviour of light [1]. In this direction, the development of so-called 'synthetic dimensions' offers a particularly powerful approach to exploring topological photonics. The central idea of this method is to identify and couple together a set of internal degrees of freedom so as to simulate the motion of a quantum particle along an extra spatial direction [2]. In this framework, a system with D-real dimensions can be made to behave like a D + d-dimensional system, when d synthetic dimensions are added to the system. This approach, therefore, both raises the prospect of simulating exotic systems with four or more spatial dimensions, but also provides, through the external control of couplings, a straightforward way to design topological lattices in different dimensions [3].
AB - In recent years, topological photonics has emerged as an exciting research field in which topological concepts, originally introduced to understand the behaviour of electrons in solid-state materials, are instead exploited to design and control the behaviour of light [1]. In this direction, the development of so-called 'synthetic dimensions' offers a particularly powerful approach to exploring topological photonics. The central idea of this method is to identify and couple together a set of internal degrees of freedom so as to simulate the motion of a quantum particle along an extra spatial direction [2]. In this framework, a system with D-real dimensions can be made to behave like a D + d-dimensional system, when d synthetic dimensions are added to the system. This approach, therefore, both raises the prospect of simulating exotic systems with four or more spatial dimensions, but also provides, through the external control of couplings, a straightforward way to design topological lattices in different dimensions [3].
KW - Photonics
KW - Physics
KW - Two dimensional displays
KW - Hall effect
KW - Lattices
KW - Cavity resonators
KW - Astronomy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074652389&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8872904
DO - 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8872904
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85074652389
SN - 978-1-7281-0470-6 (PoD)
T3 - Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE), Conference on
BT - 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
T2 - 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019
Y2 - 23 June 2019 through 27 June 2019
ER -