A perspective on synthetic dimensions in photonics

M Ehrhardt, S Weidemann… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of synthetic dimension has recently emerged as a versatile way to overcome
limitations in the number of effectively available dimensions by leveraging non‐spatial …

Strongly interacting Rydberg atoms in synthetic dimensions with a magnetic flux

T Chen, C Huang, I Velkovsky, KRA Hazzard… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Synthetic dimensions, wherein dynamics occurs in a set of internal states, have found great
success in recent years in exploring topological effects in cold atoms and photonics …

Photonic Floquet Landau-Zener tunneling and temporal beam splitters

S Wang, C Qin, L Zhao, H Ye, S Longhi, P Lu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Landau-Zener tunneling (LZT), ie, the nonadiabatic transition under strong parameter
driving in multilevel systems, is ubiquitous in physics, providing a powerful tool for coherent …

Observation of Generalized Dynamic Localizations in Arbitrary‐Wave Driven Synthetic Temporal Lattices

H Ye, S Wang, C Qin, L Zhao, X Hu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic localization (DL) refers to a wavefunction confinement effect of electrons in periodic
lattices under an ac electric field driving. Recent studies have transplanted DLs from …

Quantum state processing through controllable synthetic temporal photonic lattices

M Monika, F Nosrati, A George, S Sciara, R Fazili… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum walks on photonic platforms represent a physics-rich framework for quantum
measurements, simulations and universal computing. Dynamic reconfigurability of photonic …

Curved vortex surfaces in four-dimensional superfluids. I. Unequal-frequency double rotations

B McCanna, HM Price - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
The study of superfluid quantum vortices has long been an important area of research, with
previous work naturally focusing on two-dimensional and three-dimensional systems, where …

Curved vortex surfaces in four-dimensional superfluids. II. Equal-frequency double rotations

B McCanna, HM Price - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
As is well known, two-dimensional and three-dimensional superfluids under rotation can
support topological excitations such as quantized point vortices and line vortices …

Edge-dependent anomalous topology in synthetic photonic lattices subject to discrete step walks

R El Sokhen, Á Gómez-León, AF Adiyatullin… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Anomalous topological phases, where edge states coexist with topologically trivial Chern
bands, can only appear in periodically driven lattices. When the driving is smooth and …

Localization and delocalization of light in synthetic photonic lattices with hybrid Bloch-Anderson modulations

X Cao, K Wang, S Yang, Y Gao, Y Cai, Z Wen - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate the localization and delocalization transition in a synthetic mesh lattice (SML)
with the hybrid modulations comprising of a gradient phase and phase disorders that are …

Tera-sample-per-second arbitrary waveform generation in a synthetic dimension

Y Guan, J Zhang, L Li, R Cao, G Wang, J Chen… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Synthetic dimension opens new horizons in quantum physics and topological photonics by
enabling new dimensions for field and particle manipulations. The most appealing property …