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Synthetic Landau levels and robust chiral edge states for dark-state polaritons in a static and scalable continuum media

Yu-Hung Kuan1, Shin-Yu Lee1, Siang-Wei Shao1, Wu-Cheng Chiang1, I-Kang Liu2, Julius Ruseckas3,4, Gediminas Juzeliūnas4, Yu-Ju Lin5,6,*, and Wen-Te Liao1,7,8,†

  • 1Department of Physics, National Central University, Taoyuan City 32001, Taiwan
  • 2Joint Quantum Centre Durham-Newcastle, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
  • 3Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology, Pilies gatvė 16-8, LT-01403 Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 4Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 5Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
  • 6Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
  • 7Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
  • 8Quantum Technology Center, National Central University, Taoyuan City 32001, Taiwan

  • *linyj@gate.sinica.edu.tw
  • †wente.liao@g.ncu.edu.tw
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Phys. Rev. Research 5, L042029 – Published 27 November, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L042029

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We demonstrate the generation and dynamical control of synthetic Landau levels and robust chiral edge states for neutral dark-state polaritons using electromagnetically induced transparency in our theoretical studies. We adopt an optical approach to produce synthetic magnetic fields for dark-state polaritons in the static laboratory frame. In our scalable system, an Aharonov-Bohm phase is obtained along a closed loop in a continuous material rather than a sophisticated lattice structure. Our scheme paves the way toward versatile quantum simulators, dynamically controllable photonic circuits, and generators for exotic states of light carrying topological winding numbers.

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Phys. Rev. Research 5, L042029– Published 27 November, 2023
  • Received 30 December 2022
  • Revised 10 July 2023
  • Accepted 19 October 2023
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