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Synthetic dimensions have garnered widespread interest for implementing high dimensional classical and quantum dynamics on lower dimensional geometries. Synthetic frequency dimensions, in particular, have been used to experimentally realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Avik Dutt , Luqi Yuan , Ki Youl Yang , Kai Wang , Siddharth Buddhiraju , Jelena Vučković , Shanhui Fan

Geometrical dimensionality plays a fundamentally important role in the topological effects arising in discrete lattices. While direct experiments are limited by three spatial dimensions, the research topic of synthetic dimensions…

In the field of quantum simulation of condensed matter phenomena by artificially engineering the Hamiltonian of an atomic, molecular or optical system, the concept of `synthetic dimensions' has recently emerged as a powerful way to emulate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-02 Tomoki Ozawa , Hannah M. Price

Beam shaping - the ability to engineer the phase and the amplitude of massive and massless particles - has long interested scientists working on communication, imaging and the foundations of quantum mechanics. In light optics, the shaping…

In a recently developed methodology termed photon induced near-field electron microscopy (PINEM), the inelastic scattering of electrons off illuminated nanostructures provides direct experimental access to the structure of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Niklas Müller , Gerrit Vosse , Ferdinand Evers , Sascha Schäfer

Controlling and generating ultrafast free-electron wavepackets via laser is pivotal for photon-induced near-field electron microscopes (PINEM) and also for developing compact, coherent free-electron radiation sources. Here, we present a…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yangfan He , Chenhao Pan , Bin Zhang , Yiming Pan

The concept of synthetic dimensions, which has enabled the study of higher-dimensional physics on lower-dimensional physical structures, has generated significant recent interest in many branches of science ranging from ultracold-atomic…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-07 Avik Dutt , Qian Lin , Luqi Yuan , Momchil Minkov , Meng Xiao , Shanhui Fan

Magnons are promising candidates for next-generation computing architectures, offering the ability to manipulate their amplitude and phase for information encoding. However, the frequency degree of freedom remains largely unexploited due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Meng Xu , Yan Chen , Weichao Yu

Synthetic frequency dimension offers a powerful approach to simulate lattice models and control photon dynamics. However, extending this concept into the quantum regime, particularly at the single-photon level, has remained challenging in…

Synthetic photonic lattice with temporally controlled potentials is a versatile platform for realizing wave dynamics associated with physical areas of optics and quantum physics. Here, discrete optics in one-dimensionally synthetic photonic…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Zengrun Wen , Kaile Wang , Baole Lu , Xinyuan Qi , Haowei Chen , Jintao Bai

In recent years there has been significant interest in the concepts of synthetic dimensions, where one couples the internal degrees of freedom of a particle to form higher-dimensional lattices in lower-dimensional physical structures. For…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-24 Avik Dutt , Momchil Minkov , Qian Lin , Luqi Yuan , David A. B. Miller , Shanhui Fan

We show that a single ring resonator undergoing dynamic modulation can be used to create a synthetic space with an arbitrary dimension. In such a system the phases of the modulation can be used to create a photonic gauge potential in high…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-20 Luqi Yuan , Meng Xiao , Qian Lin , Shanhui Fan

We theoretically propose a scheme to synthesize photonic non-Abelian electric field and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the synthetic frequency dimension based on a polarization-multiplexed time-modulated ring resonator. Inside the ring…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 Bengy Tsz Tsun Wong , Zehai Pang , Yi Yang

Recent technological advances in integrated photonics have spurred on the study of topological phenomena in engineered bosonic systems. Indeed, the controllability of silicon ring-resonator arrays has opened up new perspectives for building…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Tomoki Ozawa , Hannah M. Price , Nathan Goldman , Oded Zilberberg , Iacopo Carusotto

Synthetic dimensions provide a powerful tool that uses comparatively simple structures to probe high-dimensional topological physics, in which edge states emerging at lattice boundaries are of great importance. However, the demonstration of…

Since the discovery of electron-wave duality, electron scattering instrumentation has developed into a powerful array of techniques for revealing the atomic structure of matter. Beyond detecting local lattice variations in equilibrium…

Spatio-temporal shaping of electron beams is a bold frontier in electron microscopy, enabling new routes toward spatial-resolution enhancement, selective probing, low-dose imaging and faster data acquisition. Over the last decade, shaping…

Giant atoms that interact with real-space waveguides at multiple spatial points have attracted extensive attention due to their unique interference effects. Here we propose a feasible scheme for constructing giant atoms in a synthetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Lei Du , Yan Zhang , Jin-Hui Wu , A. F. Kockum , Yong Li

We introduce a simple scheme to implement synthetic dimensions in ultracold atomic gases, which only requires two basic and ubiquitous ingredients: the harmonic trap, which confines the atoms, combined with a periodic shaking. In our…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-15 Hannah M. Price , Tomoki Ozawa , Nathan Goldman

Ultrafast electron microscopy aims for imaging transient phenomena occurring on nanoscale. One of its goals is to visualize localized optical and plasmonic modes generated by coherent excitation in the vicinity of various types of…