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Topological manipulation of light provides a versatile toolbox for photonic technologies. Here, we show that a topological atom array can induce photon localization in a waveguide via symmetry-protected light-matter interaction. Long-lived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Yue-Zhi Zhang , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Wei Nie

Coupling light to ensembles of strongly interacting particles has emerged as a promising route toward achieving few photon nonlinearities. One specific way to implement this kind of nonlinearity is to interface light with highly excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Callum R. Murray , Thomas Pohl

Higher-order topological insulator, as a newly found non-trivial material and structure, possesses a topological phase beyond the bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we present an experimental observation of photonic higher-order…

Optomechanical systems provide a unique platform for observing quantum behavior of macroscopic objects. However, efforts towards realizing nonlinear behavior at the single photon level have been inhibited by the small size of the radiation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Xunnong Xu , Michael Gullans , Jacob M. Taylor

The robust generation and manipulation of high-dimensional quantum states lies at the heart of modern quantum computation. The use of topology to resiliently encode and transport quantum information has been widely investigated in condensed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 M. Javad Zakeri , Armando Perez-Leija , Andrea Blanco-Redondo

Topological insulators combine insulating properties in the bulk with scattering-free transport along edges, supporting dissipationless unidirectional energy and information flow even in the presence of defects and disorder. The feasibility…

Topological photonics aims to utilize topological photonic bands and corresponding edge modes to implement robust light manipulation, which can be readily achieved in the linear regime of light-matter interaction. Importantly, unlike solid…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Zhihao Lan , Jian Wei You , Nicolae C. Panoiu

Topological photonic systems, with their ability to host states protected against disorder and perturbation, allow us to do with photons what topological insulators do with electrons. Topological photonics can refer to electronic systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Marie S. Rider , Samuel J. Palmer , Simon R. Pocock , Xiaofei Xiao , Paloma Arroyo Huidobro , Vincenzo Giannini

Topological photonics provides a novel platform to explore topological physics beyond traditional electronic materials and stimulates promising applications in topologically protected light transport and lasers. Classical degrees of freedom…

We propose a robust scheme of studying the strong interactions between free electrons and photons using topological photonics. Our study reveals that the topological corner state can be used to enhance the interaction between light and a…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-20 Jing Li , Yiqi Fang , Yunquan Liu

One of the most striking features of quantum mechanics is the appearance of phases of matter with topological origins. These phases result in remarkably robust macroscopic phenomena such as the edge modes in integer quantum Hall systems,…

Coherent quantum optics, where the interaction of a photon with an emitter does not scramble phase coherence, lies at the heart of many quantum optical effects and emerging technologies. Solid-state emitters coupled to nanophotonic…

Low-decoherence regime plays a key role in constructing multi-particle quantum systems and has therefore been constantly pursued in order to build quantum simulators and quantum computers in a scalable fashion. Quantum error correction and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 Yao Wang , Xiao-Ling Pang , Yong-Heng Lu , Jun Gao , Zhi-Qiang Jiao , Hao Tang , Xian-Min Jin

Topological insulators are a new class of materials that have engendered considerable research interest among the condensed matter community owing primarily to their application prospects in quantum computations and spintronics. Many of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-24 Nitish Kumar Gupta , Arun M. Jayannavar

The integration of quantum emitters within topological nano-photonic devices opens up new avenues for the control of light-matter interactions at the single photon level. Here, we realise a spin-dependent, chiral light-matter interface…

Topological insulators are materials that conduct on the surface and insulate in their interior due to non-trivial topological order. The edge states on the interface between topological (non-trivial) and conventional (trivial) insulators…

Here we review some of the recent developments in Quantum Optics. After a brief introduction to the historical development of the subject, we discuss some of the modern aspects of quantum optics including atom field interactions, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Subhashish Banerjee , Arun Jayannavar

Topological protection in photonics offers new prospects for guiding and manipulating classical and quantum information. The mechanism of spin-orbit coupling promises the emergence of edge states that are helical; exhibiting unidirectional…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-28 Nikhil Parappurath , Filippo Alpeggiani , L. Kuipers , Ewold Verhagen

Photonic crystal topological insulators host protected states at their edges. In the band structure these edge states appear as continuous bands crossing the photonic band gap. They allow light to propagate unidirectionally and without…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Gleb Siroki , Paloma Arroyo Huidobro , Vincenzo Giannini

At the most fundamental level, the interaction between light and matter is manifested by the emission and absorption of single photons by single quantum emitters. Controlling light--matter interaction is the basis for diverse applications…