Topological Photonics
Topological Photonics
When a magnetic field is applied to an electron, it begins to undergo cyclotron orbits due to the Lorentz force; this gives rise to exotic physics like the (quantum) Hall effect, the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, and more. Photons are electrically neutral, so they do not naturally exhibit these fascinating phenomena used to characterized solid state materials. In the process of developing techniques to induce photons to behave as though they live in a magnetic field, we discovered that we could make them behave as though they are near a singularity of spatial curvature, akin to a black hole; this interplay of curvature and momentum-space topology is an extremely active area of research, and is uniquely accessible in our experiments.
Approach
- A few talks given by Jon on the topic: Harvard ITAMP, KITP Topological Quantum Materials , Simons Center for Geometry and Physics , KITP Few-Body Physics, Manybody Cavity QED .
Related Papers
Lukas Palm, Bowen Li, Yiming Cady Feng, Marius Jürgensen, and Jonathan Simon, "Enhanced Rydberg Blockade through RF-tuned Förster Resonance" arXiv 2603.07958
Matt Jaffe, Lukas Palm, Claire Baum, Lavanya Taneja, Aishwarya Kumar, and Jonathan Simon, "Understanding and suppressing backscatter in optical resonators" Optica 8, 878
Clai Owens, Margaret G. Panetta, Brendan Saxberg, Gabrielle Roberts, Srivatsan Chakram, Ruichao Ma, Andrei Vrajitoarea, Jonathan Simon, David Schuster, "Chiral Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics" Nature Physics 18, 1048–1052
R. O. Umucalılar, Jonathan Simon, Iacopo Carusotto, "Autonomous stabilization of photonic Laughlin states through angular momentum potentials" Phys. Rev. A 104, 023704
Matt Jaffe, Lukas Palm, Claire Baum, Lavanya Taneja, and Jonathan Simon, "Aberrated optical cavities" Physical Review A 104, 013524
Logan W Clark, Nathan Schine, Claire Baum, Ningyuan Jia and Jonathan Simon, "Observation of Laughlin states made of light" Nature 582, 41-45
Logan W Clark, Ningyuan Jia, Nathan Schine, Claire Baum, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Jonathan Simon, "Interacting Floquet Polaritons" Nature 571, 532–536
Tomoki Ozawa, Hannah M Price, Alberto Amo, Nathan Goldman, Mohammad Hafezi, Ling Lu, Mikael Rechtsman, David Schuster, Jonathan Simon, Oded Zilberberg, Iacopo Carusotto, "Topological Photonics" Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 015006
Nathan Schine, Michelle Chalupnik, Tankut Can, Andrey Gromov, Jonathan Simon, "Measuring Electromagnetic and Gravitational Responses of Photonic Landau Levels" Nature 565, 173-179
Leon Lu, Ningyuan Jia, Lin Su, Clai Owens, Gediminas Juzeliunas, David Schuster, Jonathan Simon, "Probing the Berry Curvature and Fermi Arcs of a Weyl Circuit" Physical Review B 99, 020302
Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon, "Theory of Interacting Cavity Rydberg Polaritons" Quantum Science and Technology, 4, 1
Peter Ivanov, Fabian Letscher, Jonathan Simon, Michael Fleischhauer, "Adiabatic flux insertion and growing of Laughlin states of cavity Rydberg polaritons" Physical Review A 98, 013847
Jia Ningyuan, Nathan Schine, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Albert Ryou, Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon, "Photons and polaritons in a broken-time-reversal non-planar resonator" Physical Review A 97, 013802
Clai Owens, Aman LaChapelle, Brendan Saxberg, Brandon Anderson, Ruichao Ma, Jonathan Simon, David I Schuster, "Quarter-Flux Hofstadter Lattice in Qubit-Compatible Microwave Cavity Array" Physical Review A 97, 013818
Albert Ryou, Jonathan Simon, "Active Cancellation of Acoustical Resonances with an FPGA FIR Filter" Review of Scientific Instruments Volume 88, 1
Ruichao Ma, Clai Owens, Aman LaChapelle, David I Schuster, Jonathan Simon, "Hamiltonian tomography of photonic lattices" Physical Review A 95, 062120
Nathan Schine, Albert Ryou, Andrey Gromov, Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon, "Synthetic Landau levels for photons" Nature 534, 671-5
Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon, "Engineering photonic Floquet Hamiltonians through Fabry-Perot resonators" New Journal of Physics 3, 035008
Jia Ningyuan, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Albert Ryou, Nathan Schine, Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon, "Observation and characterization of cavity Rydberg polaritons" Physical Review A 93, 041802
Brandon M Anderson, Ruichao Ma, Clai Owens, David I Schuster, Jonathan Simon, "Engineering Topological Many-Body Materials in Microwave Cavity Arrays" Physical Review X 4, 041043
Jia Ningyuan, Clai Owens, Ariel Sommer, David Schuster, Jonathan Simon, "Time-and site-resolved dynamics in a topological circuit" Physical Review X 2, 021031
Jonathan Simon, "Condensed-matter physics: Magnetic fields without magnetic fields" Nature 7526, 202-203
Jonathan Simon, Markus Greiner, "Condensed-matter physics: A duo of graphene mimics" Nature 7389, 282-284
