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Thouless pumping of light with a twist

Nature Physics volume 18, pages 968–969 (2022)Cite this article

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An experiment with photonic waveguides demonstrates the connection between non-Abelian holonomies and adiabatic particle transport, paving the way to the geometric and topological control of light trajectories.

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Fig. 1: Evolution of the wave-function during a simple yet realistic non-Abelian pumping cycle.

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  1. Institute for Complex Systems, National Research Council (ISC-CNR), Rome, Italy

    Laura Pilozzi & Valentina Brosco

  2. Research Center Enrico Fermi, Rome, Italy

    Laura Pilozzi & Valentina Brosco

  3. Department of Physics, University Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    Valentina Brosco

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Pilozzi, L., Brosco, V. Thouless pumping of light with a twist. Nat. Phys. 18, 968–969 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01675-z

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