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Experimental realization of Bloch oscillations in a parity-time synthetic silicon photonic lattice

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  • Ye-Long Xu

    (National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University)

  • William S. Fegadolli

    (California Institute of Technology)

  • Lin Gan

    (Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Ming-Hui Lu

    (National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University
    Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University)

  • Xiao-Ping Liu

    (National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University
    Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University)

  • Zhi-Yuan Li

    (Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Axel Scherer

    (California Institute of Technology)

  • Yan-Feng Chen

    (National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University
    Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University)

Abstract

As an important electron transportation phenomenon, Bloch oscillations have been extensively studied in condensed matter. Due to the similarity in wave properties between electrons and other quantum particles, Bloch oscillations have been observed in atom lattices, photonic lattices, and so on. One of the many distinct advantages for choosing these systems over the regular electronic systems is the versatility in engineering artificial potentials. Here by utilizing dissipative elements in a CMOS-compatible photonic platform to create a periodic complex potential and by exploiting the emerging concept of parity-time synthetic photonics, we experimentally realize spatial Bloch oscillations in a non-Hermitian photonic system on a chip level. Our demonstration may have significant impact in the field of quantum simulation by following the recent trend of moving complicated table-top quantum optics experiments onto the fully integrated CMOS-compatible silicon platform.

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  • Ye-Long Xu & William S. Fegadolli & Lin Gan & Ming-Hui Lu & Xiao-Ping Liu & Zhi-Yuan Li & Axel Scherer & Yan-Feng Chen, 2016. "Experimental realization of Bloch oscillations in a parity-time synthetic silicon photonic lattice," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 7(1), pages 1-6, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:7:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms11319
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11319
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    1. Weixuan Zhang & Hao Yuan & Haiteng Wang & Fengxiao Di & Na Sun & Xingen Zheng & Houjun Sun & Xiangdong Zhang, 2022. "Observation of Bloch oscillations dominated by effective anyonic particle statistics," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-8, December.
    2. Shulin Wang & Chengzhi Qin & Weiwei Liu & Bing Wang & Feng Zhou & Han Ye & Lange Zhao & Jianji Dong & Xinliang Zhang & Stefano Longhi & Peixiang Lu, 2022. "High-order dynamic localization and tunable temporal cloaking in ac-electric-field driven synthetic lattices," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-11, December.

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