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Controlled Aharonov-Bohm caging of wave train is reported in a quasi-one dimensional version of Lieb geometry with next nearest neighbor hopping integral within the tight-binding framework. This longer wavelength fluctuation is considered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Atanu Nandy

We suggest a method for trapping photons in quasi one-dimensional waveguide or coupled-resonator lattices, which is based on an optical analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm cages for charged particles. Light trapping results from a destructive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Stefano Longhi

The non-Hermitian Aharonov-Bohm (AB) cage is a unique localization phenomenon that confines all possible excitations. This confinement leads to fully flat spectra in momentum space, which are typically accompanied with the degeneracy with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Kunling Zhou , Bowen Zeng , Yong Hu

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) caging is the phenomenon of extreme localization of particles experiencing magnetic field in certain tight binding lattices. While the AB caging involves the localization of non-interacting particles, it often breaks…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-10 Sitaram Maity , Biswajit Paul , Soumya Prakash Sharma , Tapan Mishra

Fractal geometries exhibit complex structures with scale invariance self-similar pattern over various length scales. An artificially designed quantum fractal geometry embedded in a uniform magnetic flux has been explored in this study. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Biplab Pal

Topological flat bands (TFBs) provide a promising platform to investigate intriguing fractionalization phenomena, such as the fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). Most of TFB models are established in two-dimensional Euclidean lattices with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-30 Dong-Hao Guan , Lu Qi , Yuan Zhou , Ai-Lei He , Yi-Fei Wang

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is the prime example of a zero-field-strength configuration where a non-trivial vector potential acquires physical significance, a typical quantum mechanical effect. We consider an extension of the traditional A-B…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-02-16 Fabio Franchini , Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

In flat-band systems, destructive interference leads to the localization of non-interacting particles and forbids their motion through the lattice. However, in the presence of interactions the overlap between neighbouring single-particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-21 G. Pelegrí , A. M. Marques , V. Ahufinger , J. Mompart , R. G. Dias

We study the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) caging effect in rhombic exciton-polariton lattices, with the Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (RDSOC) in acting a synthetic gauge field. The effective magnetic flux through each plaquette is controlled…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-17 Wei Qi

In the lattice system, when the synthetic flux reaches a $\pi$ phase along a closed loop under the synthetic gauge field, destructive interference occurs and gives rise to the localization phenomenon. This is known as the Aharonov-Bohm (AB)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Zhiyuan Liu , Wanchao Yao , Sai Li , Yi Li , Yue Li , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Yiheng Lin

Square-root topology describes models whose topological properties can be revealed upon squaring the Hamiltonian, which produces their respective parent topological insulators. This concept has recently been generalized to $2^n$-root…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-19 A. M. Marques , J. Mögerle , G. Pelegrí , S. Flannigan , R. G. Dias , A. J. Daley

The energy spectrum of a tight-binding Hamiltonian is studied for the two-dimensional quasiperiodic Rauzy tiling in a perpendicular magnetic field. This spectrum known as a Hofstadter butterfly displays a very rich pattern of bulk gaps that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 J. -N Fuchs , J. Vidal

Topological flat moir\'e bands with nearly ideal quantum geometry have been identified in homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenide moir\'e superlattices, and are thought to be crucial for understanding the fractional Chern insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Jingtian Shi , Nicolás Morales-Durán , Eslam Khalaf , Allan H. MacDonald

We show that bosonic atoms loaded into orbital angular momentum $l=1$ states of a lattice in a diamond-chain geometry provides a flexible and simple platform for exploring a range of topological effects. This system exhibits robust edge…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 G. Pelegrí , A. M. Marques , R. G. Dias , A. J. Daley , J. Mompart , V. Ahufinger

Fock-state lattices (FSLs), composed of photon number states with infinite Hilbert space, have emerged as a promising platform for simulating high-dimensional physics due to their potential to extend into arbitrarily high dimensions. Here,…

In these lecture notes, we present a self-contained discussion of planar gauge theories broken down to some finite residual gauge group H via the Higgs mechanism. The main focus is on the discrete H gauge theory describing the long distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Mark de Wild Propitius , F. Alexander Bais

In a recent experiment, a dissipative Aharaonov-Bohm (AB) chain was implemented in the momentum space of a Bose-Einstein condensate. Formed by a series of dissipative AB rings threaded by synthetic magnetic flux, the chain exhibits the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-28 Haowei Li , Wei Yi

Spinless, interacting electrons on a finite size triangular lattice moving in an extremely strong perpendicular magnetic field are studied and compared with the results on a square lattice. Using a Falicov-Kimball model, the effects of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-23 Subhasree Pradhan

A unique feature of non-Hermitian systems is the extreme sensitivity of the eigenspectrum to boundary conditions with the emergence of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). A NHSE originates from the point-gap topology of complex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Xiang Li , Jin Liu , Tao Liu

Recent advances in realizing artificial gauge fields on optical lattices promise experimental detection of topologically non-trivial energy spectra. Self-similar fractal energy structures generally known as Hofstadter butterflies depend…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-25 F. Yılmaz , F. Nur Ünal , M. Ö. Oktel