Synthetic Landau levels for photons

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 534; no. 7609; pp. 671 - 675
• Main Authors: Schine, Nathan, Ryou, Albert, Gromov, Andrey, Sommer, Ariel, Simon, Jonathan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 30.06.2016; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 140/125; 639/624/399; 639/766/119/2794; Asymmetry; Atomic properties; Atoms & subatomic particles; Charged particles; Humanities and Social Sciences; Landau damping; letter; Lorentz contraction; Magnetic fields; Magnetic properties; Methods; multidisciplinary; Photons; Quantum theory; Science; Spectra; Symmetry; Topology; United States

It is an long-standing goal to produce a photonic quantum Hall effect, analogous to the well-known quantum Hall effect for electrons; now an artificial magnetic field for a continuum of photons has been produced, making it possible to observe photonic Landau levels in a photonic quantum Hall materia...