Engineered disorder in photonics

S Yu, CW Qiu, Y Chong, S Torquato, N Park - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Disorder, which qualitatively describes some measure of irregularities in spatial patterns, is
ubiquitous in many-body systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states of matter, network …

Anderson localization of light

M Segev, Y Silberberg, DN Christodoulides - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Over the past decade, the Anderson localization of light and a wide variety of associated
phenomena have come to the forefront of research. Numerous investigations have been …

Quantum transport simulations in a programmable nanophotonic processor

NC Harris, GR Steinbrecher, M Prabhu, Y Lahini… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Environmental noise and disorder play critical roles in quantum particle and wave transport
in complex media, including solid-state and biological systems. While separately both effects …

Disordered photonic time crystals

Y Sharabi, E Lustig, M Segev - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in disordered photonic time crystals:
spatially homogenous media whose refractive index changes randomly in time. We find that …

Dephasing-induced mobility edges in quasicrystals

S Longhi - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Mobility edges (ME), separating Anderson-localized states from extended states, are known
to arise in the single-particle energy spectrum of certain one-dimensional lattices with …

Environment-assisted quantum transport in a 10-qubit network

C Maier, T Brydges, P Jurcevic, N Trautmann… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
The way in which energy is transported through an interacting system governs fundamental
properties in nature such as thermal and electric conductivity or phase changes …

Phase transitions in a non-Hermitian Aubry-André-Harper model

S Longhi - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The Aubry-André-Harper model provides a paradigmatic example of aperiodic order in a
one-dimensional lattice displaying a delocalization-localization phase transition at a finite …

Mobility transition from ballistic to diffusive transport in non-Hermitian lattices

T Eichelkraut, R Heilmann, S Weimann… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Within all physical disciplines, it is accepted that wave transport is predetermined by the
existence of disorder. In this vein, it is known that ballistic transport is possible only when a …

Apparatus and methods for optical neural network

NC Harris, JJ Carolan, M Prabhu, DR Englund… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
An optical neural network is constructed based on photonic integrated circuits to perform
neuromorphic computing. In the optical neural network, matrix multiplication is imple mented …

Enhancing coherent transport in a photonic network using controllable decoherence

DN Biggerstaff, R Heilmann, AA Zecevik… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Transport phenomena on a quantum scale appear in a variety of systems, ranging from
photosynthetic complexes to engineered quantum devices. It has been predicted that the …