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Artificial magnetic field in electromagnetism is becoming an emerging way as a robust control of light based on its geometric and topological nature. Other than demonstrating topological photonics properties in the diffractive regime using…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-20 Fu Liu , Tao Xu , Saisai Wang , Zhi Hong Hang , Jensen Li

Artificial gauge fields open up burgeoning opportunities for wave engineering in different disciplines. So far,previous works have mostly focused on synthesizing spatial gauge fields, where the pseudo-magnetic fields lie at the heart of…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-25 Yucheng Lai , Yongliang Zhang , Kai Chang

Gauge fields play important roles in condensed matter, explaining for example nonreciprocal and topological transport phenomena. Establishing gauge potentials for phonon transport in nanomechanical systems would bring quantum Hall physics…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-18 John P. Mathew , Javier del Pino , Ewold Verhagen

The concept of gauge field is a cornerstone of modern physics and the synthetic gauge field has emerged as a new way to manipulate particles in many disciplines. In optics, several schemes of Abelian synthetic gauge fields have been…

We show theoretically that strong electron coupling to circularly polarized photons in non-singly-connected nanostructures results in the appearance of an artificial gauge field that changes the electron phase. The effect arises from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 H. Sigurdsson , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

The discovery of artificial gauge fields, controlling the dynamics of uncharged particles that otherwise elude the influence of standard electric or magnetic fields, has revolutionized the field of quantum simulation. Hence, developing new…

Gauge fields, real or synthetic, are crucial for understanding and manipulation of physical systems. The associated geometric phases can be measured, for example, from the Aharonov--Bohm interference. So far, real-space realizations of…

We report a severe, spin-dependent, Fermi contour anisotropy induced by parallel magnetic field in a high-mobility (001) GaAs two-dimensional hole system. Employing commensurability oscillations created by a unidirectional,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 D. Kamburov , M. Shayegan , R. Winkler , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Neutral particles subject to artificial gauge potentials can behave as charged particles in magnetic fields. This fascinating premise has led to demonstrations of one-way waveguides, topologically protected edge states and Landau levels for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Hyang-Tag Lim , Emre Togan , Martin Kroner , Javier Miguel-Sanchez , Atac Imamoglu

Based on the Born-Oppemheimer approximation, we divide total electron Hamiltonian in a spinorbit coupled system into slow orbital motion and fast interband transition process. We find that the fast motion induces a gauge field on slow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Likun Shi , Wenkai Lou , F. Cheng , Y. L. Zou , Wen Yang , Kai Chang

The Aharonov-Bohm effect including spin-noncommutative effects is considered. At linear order in $\theta$, the magnetic field is gauge invariant although spatially strongly anisotropic. Despite this anisotropy, the Schr\"odinger-Pauli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-12 A. Das , H. Falomir , J. Gamboa , F. Mendez , M. Nieto

Artificial gauge fields allow uncharged particles to mimic the behavior of charged particles subjected to magnetic fields, providing a powerful platform for exploring topological physics. Neutral particles, like photons, are typically…

Photonic gauge potentials are crucial for manipulating charge-neutral photons like their counterpart electrons in the electromagnetic field, allowing analogous Aharonov-Bohm effect in photonics and paving the way for critical applications…

We investigate the anisotropy of the optical properties of thin Fe films on GaAs(001) from first-principles calculations. Both intrinsic and magnetization-induced anisotropy are covered by studying the system in the presence of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sebastian Putz , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

The geometric effects of two-dimensional curved systems have been an interesting topic for a long time. A M\"{o}bius surface is specifically considered. For a relativistic particle confined to the nontrivial surface, we give the effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Yong-Long Wang , Hao Zhao , Hua Jiang , Hui Liu , Yan-Feng Chen

An important limitation is shown in the analogy between the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the parallel transport on a cone. It illustrates a basic difference between gravity and gauge fields due to the existence of the solder form for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Jeeva Anandan

We revisit the dynamics of the axial coupling between many N-flatons and an Abelian gauge field, with special attention to its statistically anisotropic signal. The anisotropic power spectrum of curvature perturbations associated to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-02 Federico R. Urban

We consider a `Scalar-Maxwell-Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet' theory in four dimension, where the scalar field couples non-minimally with the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term. This coupling with the scalar field ensures the non topological character of the GB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Narayan Banerjee , Tanmoy Paul

Synthetic gauge fields have recently emerged, arising in the context of quantum simulations, topological matter, and the protected transportation of excitations against defects. For example, an ultracold atom experiences a light-induced…

We develop a theory of artificial gauge fields in photon fluids for the cases of both second-order and third-order optical nonlinearities. This applies to weak excitations in the presence of pump fields carrying orbital angular momentum,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-03 N. Westerberg , C. Maitland , D. Faccio , K. Wilson , P. Öhberg , E. M. Wright
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