Synthetic Dimensions with Magnetic Fields and Local Interactions in Photonic Lattices

Year: 2017

Authors: Ozawa T., Carusotto I.

Autors Affiliation: Univ Trento, INO CNR BEC Ctr, I-38123 Povo, Italy; Univ Trento, Dipartimento Fis, I-38123 Povo, Italy.

Abstract: We discuss how one can realize a photonic device that combines synthetic dimensions and synthetic magnetic fields with spatially local interactions. Using an array of ring cavities, the angular coordinate around each cavity spans the synthetic dimension. The synthetic magnetic field arises as the intercavity photon hopping is associated with a change of angular momentum. Photon-photon interactions are local in the periodic angular coordinate around each cavity. Experimentally observable consequences of the synthetic magnetic field and of the local interactions are pointed out.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 118 (1)      Pages from: 13601-1  to: 13601-6

More Information: We are grateful to Hannah Price for stimulating discussions, and we also acknowledge valuable discussions with Nathan Goldman, Thomas Scaffidi, and Mohammad Hafezi. We thank Fernando Ramiro Manzano and Zeno Gaburro for useful exchanges on silicon microring resonators, and Albert Adiyatullin and Clauderic Ouellet-Plamondon for helpful discussions on their exciton-polariton micropillars. This work was funded by European Research Council through the QGBE grant, by the European Union-FET Proactive grant AQuS, Project No. 640800, and by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento, partially through the project On silicon chip quantum optics for quantum computing and secure communications-SiQuro.
KeyWords: Edge States; Quantum; Physics
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.013601

Citations: 41
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