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En-gauging the light

Synthetic gauge fields that enable controllable confinement and guiding via bound states in the continuum are demonstrated, offering new ways to confine and manipulate localization of radiation in space and opportunities to new applications of artificial gauge fields in photonics.

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Fig. 1: Engineering artificial gauge fields in waveguide arrays by geometry.

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Khanikaev, A.B. En-gauging the light. Nat. Photonics 13, 308–310 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0421-7

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