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Feng Y, Liu Z, Liu F, Yu J, Liang S, Li F, Zhang Y, Xiao M, Zhang Z. Loss Difference Induced Localization in a Non-Hermitian Honeycomb Photonic Lattice. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:013802. [PMID: 37478430 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.013802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/25/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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Non-Hermitian systems with complex-valued energy spectra provide an extraordinary platform for manipulating unconventional dynamics of light. Here, we demonstrate the localization of light in an instantaneously reconfigurable non-Hermitian honeycomb photonic lattice that is established in a coherently prepared atomic system. One set of the sublattices is optically modulated to introduce the absorptive difference between neighboring lattice sites, where the Dirac points in reciprocal space are extended into dispersionless local flat bands, with two shared eigenstates: low-loss (high-loss) one with fields confined at sublattice B (A). When these local flat bands are broad enough due to larger loss difference, the incident beam with its tangential wave vector being at the K point in reciprocal space is effectively localized at sublattice B with weaker absorption, namely, the commonly seen power exchange between adjacent channels in photonic lattices is effectively prohibited. The current work unlocks a new capability from non-Hermitian two-dimensional photonic lattices and provides an alternative route for engineering tunable local flat bands in photonic structures.
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- Yuan Feng
- Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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Baek S, Park SH, Oh D, Lee K, Lee S, Lim H, Ha T, Park HS, Zhang S, Yang L, Min B, Kim TT. Non-Hermitian chiral degeneracy of gated graphene metasurfaces. Light Sci Appl 2023; 12:87. [PMID: 37024464 PMCID: PMC10079968 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-023-01121-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Revised: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Non-Hermitian degeneracies, also known as exceptional points (EPs), have been the focus of much attention due to their singular eigenvalue surface structure. Nevertheless, as pertaining to a non-Hermitian metasurface platform, the reduction of an eigenspace dimensionality at the EP has been investigated mostly in a passive repetitive manner. Here, we propose an electrical and spectral way of resolving chiral EPs and clarifying the consequences of chiral mode collapsing of a non-Hermitian gated graphene metasurface. More specifically, the measured non-Hermitian Jones matrix in parameter space enables the quantification of nonorthogonality of polarisation eigenstates and half-integer topological charges associated with a chiral EP. Interestingly, the output polarisation state can be made orthogonal to the coalesced polarisation eigenstate of the metasurface, revealing the missing dimension at the chiral EP. In addition, the maximal nonorthogonality at the chiral EP leads to a blocking of one of the cross-polarised transmission pathways and, consequently, the observation of enhanced asymmetric polarisation conversion. We anticipate that electrically controllable non-Hermitian metasurface platforms can serve as an interesting framework for the investigation of rich non-Hermitian polarisation dynamics around chiral EPs.
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- Soojeong Baek
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daehak-ro 291, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, 200 Union street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daehak-ro 291, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daehak-ro 291, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Gajeong-ro 267, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daehak-ro 291, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Harvard Institute of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Sungkyunkwan University, Seobu-ro 2066, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics, Samsung-ro, Suwon, 16678, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
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- Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University, 1 Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daehak-ro 291, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daehak-ro 291, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Physics, University of Ulsan, Daehak-ro, Ulsan, 44610, Republic of Korea.
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Kokhanchik P, Solnyshkov D, Stöferle T, Piętka B, Szczytko J, Malpuech G. Modulated Rashba-Dresselhaus Spin-Orbit Coupling for Topology Control and Analog Simulations. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:246801. [PMID: 36563269 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.246801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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We show theoretically that Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (RDSOC) in lattices acts as a synthetic gauge field. This allows us to control both the phase and the magnitude of tunneling coefficients between sites, which is the key ingredient to implement topological Hamitonians and spin lattices useful for simulation perpectives. We use liquid crystal based microcavities in which RDSOC can be switched on and off as a model platform. We propose a realistic scheme for implementation of a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain in which the edge states existence can be tuned, and a Harper-Hofstadter model with a tunable contrasted flux for each (pseudo)spin component. We further show that a transverse-field Ising model and classical XY Hamiltonian with tunable parameters can be implemented, opening up prospects for analog physics, simulations, and optimization.
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- Pavel Kokhanchik
- Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont INP, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont INP, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), 75231 Paris, France
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- IBM Research Europe-Zurich, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Clermont INP, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Łempicka-Mirek K, Król M, Sigurdsson H, Wincukiewicz A, Morawiak P, Mazur R, Muszyński M, Piecek W, Kula P, Stefaniuk T, Kamińska M, De Marco L, Lagoudakis PG, Ballarini D, Sanvitto D, Szczytko J, Piętka B. Electrically tunable Berry curvature and strong light-matter coupling in liquid crystal microcavities with 2D perovskite. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabq7533. [PMID: 36197989 PMCID: PMC9534495 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq7533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The field of spinoptronics is underpinned by good control over photonic spin-orbit coupling in devices that have strong optical nonlinearities. Such devices might hold the key to a new era of optoelectronics where momentum and polarization degrees of freedom of light are interwoven and interfaced with electronics. However, manipulating photons through electrical means is a daunting task given their charge neutrality. In this work, we present electrically tunable microcavity exciton-polariton resonances in a Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling field. We show that different spin-orbit coupling fields and the reduced cavity symmetry lead to tunable formation of the Berry curvature, the hallmark of quantum geometrical effects. For this, we have implemented an architecture of a photonic structure with a two-dimensional perovskite layer incorporated into a microcavity filled with nematic liquid crystal. Our work interfaces spinoptronic devices with electronics by combining electrical control over both the strong light-matter coupling conditions and artificial gauge fields.
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- Karolina Łempicka-Mirek
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhagi 3, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Chemistry, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, ul. Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- CNR-Nanotec, Institute of Nanotechnology, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
- Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, 6 Bolshoy Boulevard 30, Building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- CNR-Nanotec, Institute of Nanotechnology, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- CNR-Nanotec, Institute of Nanotechnology, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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