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Reentrant delocalization transition in one-dimensional photonic quasicrystals

Optics 2022-11-14 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

Waves propagating in certain one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattices are known to exhibit a sharp localization transition. We theoretically predict and experimentally observe that the localization of light in one-dimensional photonic quasicrystals may be followed by a second delocalization transition for some states on increasing quasiperiodic modulation strength - an example of a reentrant transition. We further propose that this phenomenon can be qualitatively captured by a dimerized tight-binding model with long-range couplings.

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@article{arxiv.2211.06047,
  title  = {Reentrant delocalization transition in one-dimensional photonic quasicrystals},
  author = {Sachin Vaidya and Christina Jörg and Kyle Linn and Megan Goh and Mikael C. Rechtsman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06047},
  year   = {2022}
}