We report the realization of a synthetic magnetic field for photons and polaritons in a honeycomb lattice of coupled semiconductor micropillars.A strong synthetic field is induced in both the s and p orbital bands by ...We report the realization of a synthetic magnetic field for photons and polaritons in a honeycomb lattice of coupled semiconductor micropillars.A strong synthetic field is induced in both the s and p orbital bands by engineering a uniaxial hopping gradient in the lattice,giving rise to the formation of Landau levels at the Dirac points.We provide direct evidence of the sublattice symmetry breaking of the lowest-order Landau level wavefunction,a distinctive feature of synthetic magnetic fields.Our realization implements helical edge states in the gap between n=0 and n=±1 Landau levels,experimentally demonstrating a novel way of engineering propagating edge states in photonic lattices.In light of recent advances in the enhancement of polariton–polariton nonlinearities,the Landau levels reported here are promising for the study of the interplay between pseudomagnetism and interactions in a photonic system.展开更多
基金supported by the ERC grant Honeypol,the H2020-FETFLAG project PhoQus(820392)the QUANTERA project Interpol(ANR-QUAN-0003-05)+11 种基金the French National Research Agency project Quantum Fluids of Light(ANR-16-CE30-0021)the French government through the Programme Investissement d’Avenir(I-SITE ULNE/ANR-16-IDEX-0004 ULNE)managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherchethe French RENATECH network,the Labex CEMPI(ANR-11-LABX-0007)the CPER Photonics for Society P4S and the Metropole Europeenne de Lille(MEL)via the project TFlightfinancial support from the FPI Scholarship No.BES-2015-074708the Spanish MINECO grant No.MAT2017-83722-Rsupported by funding from the ERC Starting Grant TopoColdsupported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18H05857JST PRESTO Grant Number JPMJPR19L2JST CREST Grant Number JPMJCR19T1the RIKEN Incentive Research Projectthe Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program(iTHEMS)at RIKEN.
文摘We report the realization of a synthetic magnetic field for photons and polaritons in a honeycomb lattice of coupled semiconductor micropillars.A strong synthetic field is induced in both the s and p orbital bands by engineering a uniaxial hopping gradient in the lattice,giving rise to the formation of Landau levels at the Dirac points.We provide direct evidence of the sublattice symmetry breaking of the lowest-order Landau level wavefunction,a distinctive feature of synthetic magnetic fields.Our realization implements helical edge states in the gap between n=0 and n=±1 Landau levels,experimentally demonstrating a novel way of engineering propagating edge states in photonic lattices.In light of recent advances in the enhancement of polariton–polariton nonlinearities,the Landau levels reported here are promising for the study of the interplay between pseudomagnetism and interactions in a photonic system.
