W01 - Imaging topological phases of laser-driven few- and many-particle systems

Project description

In project W01, we will address fundamental questions of topological features in quantum systems and photonics for strongly driven, interacting many-particle systems, as they occur in intense laser-matter interactions, for instance.  With our combined theoretical and experimental efforts we will answer how topological invariants can be properly defined in nonlinear systems, and what the shapes and characteristics of topological edge states in interacting or nonlinear systems are. Further, we will investigate how topological invariants and the associated topological features behave under dimensional mapping. With our findings we will pave the way to experimentally explore multi-electron dynamics using a photonic platform.

Cooperation projects

S01, S02, S03, S04, S05, S06, W02, W04, W05, W06, W07

Publications

  • Steering edge currents through a Floquet topological insulator
    H. Drüeke, M. Meschede and D. Bauer
    Phys. Rev. Research 5, 023056 (2023)
     
  • The N-shaped partition method: A novel parallel implementation of the Crank Nicolson algorithm
    Y. Lutsyshyn, F. Navarrete and D. Bauer
    Comput. Phys. Commun. 287, 108713 (2023)
    (also available on arXiv)
     
  • Three-dimensional non-Abelian quantum holonomy
    V. Neef, J. Pinske, F. Klauck, L. Teuber, M. Kremer, M. Ehrhardt, M. Heinrich, S. Scheel and A. Szameit
    Nature Physics 19, 30-34 (2023)
     
  • Photonic topological insulator induced by a dislocation in three dimensions
    E. Lustig, L. J. Maczewsky, J. Beck, T. Biesenthal, M. Heinrich, Z. Yang, Y. Plotnik, A. Szameit and M. Segev
    Nature 609, 931-935 (2022)
     
  • News & Views: Optically sensing topological phase transitions
    D. Bauer
    Nat. Photon. 16, 614-615 (2022)
     
  • Topological triple phase transition in non-Hermitian Floquet quasicrystals
    S. Weidemann, M. Kremer, S. Longhi and A. Szameit
    Nature 601, 354-359 (2022)
     
  • Topologically protected frequency control of broadband signals in dynamically modulated waveguide arrays
    F. S. Piccioli, A. Szameit and Iacopo Carusotto
    Phys. Rev. A 105, 053519 (2022)
     
  • Observation-dependent suppression and enhancement of two-photon coincidences by tailored losses
    M. Ehrhardt, M. Heinrich and A. Szameit
    Nature Photonics 16, 191-195 (2022)
     
  • Getting topological photonics out of the laboratory
    B. Zhen,  A. Blanco Redondo, A. Szameit and P. Genevet 
    Nature Communications 13, 2249 (2022)
     
  • Bimorphic Floquet topological insulators
    G. G. Pyrialakos, J. Beck, M. Heinrich, L. J. Maczewsky, N. V. Kantartzis, M. Khajavikhan, A. Szameit and D. N. Christodoulides 
    Nature Materials 21, 634-639 (2022)
     
  • A braid for light
    S. Scheel and A. Szameit 
    Nature Photonics 16, 344-345 (2022)
     
  • Fractal photonic topological insulators
    T. Biesenthal, L. J. Maczewsky, Z. Yang, M. Kremer, M. Segev, A. Szameit and M. Heinrich
    Science 376, 1114-1119 (2022)
     
  • Observation of photonic constant-intensity waves and induced transparency in tailored non-Hermitian lattices
    A. Steinfurth, I. Krešić, S. Weidemann, M. Kremer, K. G. Makris, M. Heinrich, S. Rotter and A. Szameit
    Science Advances 8, eabl7412 (2022)
     
  • Observation of Anderson localization beyond the spectrum of the disorder
    A. Dikopoltsev, S. Weidemann, M. Kremer, A. Steinfurth, H. Herzig Sheinfux, A. Szameit and M. Segev
    Science Advances 8, eabn7769 (2022)

Project leaders

Prof. Alexander Szameit
Phone: +49 (0)381 498 6790
Email: alexander.szameituni-rostockde

Prof. Dieter Bauer
Phone: +49 (0)381 498 6940
Email: dieter.baueruni-rostockde

Institution

University of Rostock
Institute of Physics
Albert-Einstein-Str. 23
18059 Rostock