Zak phase and the existence of edge states in graphene

P Delplace, D Ullmo, G Montambaux - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2011 - APS
We develop a method to predict the existence of edge states in graphene ribbons for a large
class of boundaries. This approach is based on the bulk-edge correspondence between the …

Observation of unconventional edge states in 'photonic graphene'

Y Plotnik, MC Rechtsman, D Song, M Heinrich… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Graphene, a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, has been attracting much
interest in recent years. Electrons therein behave as massless relativistic particles, giving …

Artificial graphene with tunable interactions

T Uehlinger, G Jotzu, M Messer, D Greif, W Hofstetter… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We create an artificial graphene system with tunable interactions and study the crossover
from metallic to Mott insulating regimes, both in isolated and coupled two-dimensional …

Topological transition of Dirac points in a microwave experiment

M Bellec, U Kuhl, G Montambaux, F Mortessagne - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
By means of a microwave tight-binding analogue experiment of a graphenelike lattice, we
observe a topological transition between a phase with a pointlike band gap characteristic of …

First experimental realization of the Dirac oscillator

JA Franco-Villafañe, E Sadurni, S Barkhofen, U Kuhl… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We present the first experimental microwave realization of the one-dimensional Dirac
oscillator, a paradigm in exactly solvable relativistic systems. The experiment relies on a …

Realization of Gapped and Ungapped Photonic Topological Anderson Insulators

M Ren, Y Yu, B Wu, X Qi, Y Wang, X Yao, J Ren… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
It is commonly believed that topologically nontrivial one-dimensional systems support edge
states rather than bulk states at zero energy. In this work, we find an unanticipated case of …

Dual-polarization two-dimensional valley photonic crystals

XT He, JW Liu, FL Shi, K Shen, WJ Chen… - Science China Physics …, 2022 - Springer
The recent realization of valley physics in photonic systems has enriched the topological
phases of light with protected edge modes and shown applications in designing high …

From graphene to fullerene: experiments with microwave photonic crystals

B Dietz, A Richter - Physica Scripta, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultracold quantum gases serve as ideal models for the characterization of universal
properties of a variety of phenomena in quantum systems. In a formal analogy to …

Tight-binding couplings in microwave artificial graphene

M Bellec, U Kuhl, G Montambaux, F Mortessagne - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
We experimentally study the propagation of microwaves in an artificial honeycomb lattice
made of dielectric resonators. This evanescent propagation is well described by a tight …

Relativistic quantum chaos

L Huang, HY Xu, C Grebogi, YC Lai - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Quantum chaos is generally referred to as the study of quantum manifestations or
fingerprints of nonlinear dynamical and chaotic behaviors in the corresponding classical …