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Light generation through optical harmonics plays a pivotal role in photonics, driving innovations in coherent light sources, biological imaging, and spectroscopy. Traditional methods for tuning optical harmonics, including electrostatic…

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We study a novel type of graphene-based superlattices formed owing to a periodic modulation of the Fermi surface. Such a modulation is possible for graphene deposited on a striped substrate made of materials with substantially different…

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We formulate a low energy effective Hamiltonian to study superlattices in bilayer graphene (BLG) using a minimal model which supports quadratic band touching points. We show that a one dimensional (1D) periodic modulation of the chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

Semiconductor superlattices are strongly nonlinear media offering several technological challenges associated with the generation of high-frequency Gigahertz radiation and very effective frequency multiplication up to several Terahertz.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Apostolos Apostolakis , Mauro F. Pereira

Quantum systems can show qualitatively new forms of behavior when they are driven by fast time-periodic modulations. In the limit of large driving frequency, the long-time dynamics of such systems can often be described by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-01 N. Goldman , J. Dalibard , M. Aidelsburger , N. R. Cooper

The x-ray vortex optical beam, distinguished by its topological charge and orbital angular momentum, offers new insights in probing complex electronic structures, enhancing material characterization, and advancing high-resolution imaging…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-26 Zhikai Zhou , Yin Kang , Weishi Wan , Chao Feng

One-way edge states at the surface of photonic topological insulators are of significant interest for communications, nonlinear and quantum optics. Moreover, when reciprocity is broken in a photonic topological insulator, these states…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 Momchil Minkov , Shanhui Fan

We propose an experimental scheme to construct an optical lattice where the atoms are confined to the surface of a torus. This construction can be realized with spatially shaped laser beams which could be realized with recently developed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-03 Hwanmun Kim , Guanyu Zhu , J. V. Porto , Mohammad Hafezi

We present a concept of terahertz oscillations in superlattices that are generated under conditions apparently different from standard Bloch oscillations. These oscillations are induced when crossed magnetic and electric fields are applied…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Orlita , R. Grill , L. Smrcka , M. Zvara

Stimulated by the recent progress in engineering topological band structures in cold atomic gases, we study the dynamic topological phenomena for atoms loaded in a periodically driven optical lattice. When the frequency of the periodic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-02 De-Huan Cai , Wei Yi

Floquet topological photonic insulators, whose light transport properties are dictated by the periodic drive sequence of the lattice, provide more flexibility for controlling and trapping light than undriven topological insulators, which…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-12 Tyler J. Zimmerling , Shirin Afzal , Vien Van

We construct a binary synthetic photonic lattice theoretically with an effective magnetic field by projecting two fiber loops' light intensity and adjusting the phase distribution precisely. By tuning the phase modulator, wave vector, and…

We propose a realization of a synthetic Random Flux Model in a two-dimensional optical lattice. Starting from Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian for two atom species we show how to use fast-periodic modulation of the system parameters to construct…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-20 Jan Major , Marcin Płodzień , Omjyoti Dutta , Jakub Zakrzewski

We describe an experimental setup for imaging topologically protected Floquet edge states using ultracold bosons in an optical lattice. Our setup involves a deep two dimensional optical lattice with a time dependent superlattice that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 Matthew Reichl , Erich Mueller

Our goal is to provide precise effective operators for monolayer graphene at Fermi energy. We consider the microscopic potential created by a lattice, and add a macroscopic potential with the same periodicity but varying at a scale…

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Photons are weak particles that do not directly couple to magnetic fields. However, it is possible to generate a photonic gauge field by breaking reciprocity such that the phase of light depends on its direction of propagation. This…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-07 Daniel Hey , Enbang Li

Resonance fluorescence of two-level quantum systems has emerged as a powerful tool in quantum information processing. Extension of this approach to higher-level systems provides new opportunities for quantum optics applications. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-19 Łukasz Dusanowski , Chris Gustin , Stephen Hughes , Christian Schneider , Sven Höfling

We present a technique for engineering quantum magnets via ultracold polar molecules in optical lattices and explore exotic interplay between its spin superfluidity and solidity. The molecular ground and first excited rotational states are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-10-27 Hongyi Yu , W. M. Liu , Chaohong Lee

Within the combined potential of an optical lattice and a harmonic magnetic trap, it is possible to form matter wave packets by intensity modulation of the lattice. An analysis of the production and motion of these wave packets provides a…

Recently, an approach for metallic superlattices based on the finite periodic systems theory was introduced \cite{Pereyra2020}. Unlike most, if not all, of the published approaches that are valid in the $n \rightarrow \infty $ limit, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-25 Pedro Pereyra