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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

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) caging is the localization effect in translational-invariant lattices due to destructive interference induced by penetrated magnetic fields. While current research focuses mainly on the case of Abelian AB caging, here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Sheng Li , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Ming Gong , Yong Hu

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) caging, a special flat-band localization mechanism, has spurred great interest in different areas of physics. AB caging can be harnessed to explore the rich and exotic physics of quantum transport in flatband systems,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-24 Hang Li , Zhaoli Dong , Stefano Longhi , Qian Liang , Dizhou Xie , Bo Yan

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) caging is the complete wavefunction localization effect in translational-invariant lattices induced by destructive phase interference. These phases originate from the gauge fields such as the penetrated magnetic fields,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Le-Chuan Wang , Sai Li , Jia Liu , Zheng-Yuan Xue

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

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) cage has a spectrum fully constituted by the flat bands and has the capacity to confine arbitrary excitation. The confined excitation in coupled waveguides propagates without diffraction. Exploited the unidirectionality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 S. M. Zhang , L. Jin

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…

Inverse Anderson transitions, where the flat-band localization is destroyed by disorder, have been wildly investigated in quantum and classical systems in the presence of Abelian gauge fields. Here, we report the first investigation on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Weixuan Zhang , Haiteng Wang , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) cage enables localized confinement with nondiffractive propagation for arbitrary excitation. In this study, we introduce an anti-parity-time (anti-$\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric imaginary coupling in a generalized Creutz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 S. M. Zhang , H. S. Xu , L. Jin

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

Flat bands play a central role in hosting emergent states of matter in many condensed matter systems, from the nascent insulating states of twisted bilayer graphene to the fractionalized excitations found in frustrated magnets and quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-02 Tao Chen , Chenxi Huang , Ivan Velkovsky , Tomoki Ozawa , Hannah Price , Jacob P. Covey , Bryce Gadway

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 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 recent years, arrays of atomic ions in a linear RF trap have proven to be a particularly successful platform for quantum simulation. However, a wide range of quantum models and phenomena have, so far, remained beyond the reach of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Tom Manovitz , Yotam Shapira , Nitzan Akerman , Ady Stern , Roee Ozeri

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 study the finite-density phases of a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory (LGT) of interconnected loops and dynamical $\mathbb{Z}_2$ charges. The gauge-invariant Wilson terms, accounting for the magnetic flux threading each loop,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-04 Enrico C. Domanti , Alejandro Bermudez , Luigi Amico

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…

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

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,…

We present an extreme localization mechanism induced by a magnetic field for tight-binding electrons in two-dimensional structures. This spectacular phenomenon is investigated for a large class of tilings (periodic, quasiperiodic, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Vidal , R. Mosseri , B. Doucot
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