Synthetic dimensions for topological and quantum phases
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The idea of synthetic dimensions is to use non-spatial degrees of freedom as dimensions to realize and study models of interest in high dimensions using low dimensional setups. Of particular interest in synthetic dimensions is to realize and study topological models and quantum phases which are otherwise difficult to realize in experiments. Various systems where synthetic dimensions have been proposed or realized include photonics and ultracold as well as room-temperature gases. Synthetic dimensions not only allow us to deepen our understanding of the models and phenomena but also provide us with novel ways to manipulate light and matter in multiple degrees of freedom for future technology.
This Focus Collection aims to present the most recent advances and future directions in exploring novel physics of topological and quantum phases with synthetic dimensions.
Examples of synthetic dimensions this Collection intends to cover include, but are not restricted to, spin of atoms, angular momentum of light, frequency modes of resonators and waveguides, momentum space, and time. The Collection also aims to include external parameter space, as in topological charge pumping, within the scope to have a broad perspective on synthetic dimensions.
Editors
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Sunil Mittal
Northeastern University, United States
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Tomoki Ozawa
Tohoku University, Japan
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Luqi Yuan
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Sunil Mittal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park. Thereafter, he continued at Maryland as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Joint Quantum Institute. His research interests span quantum and nonlinear photonics, topological physics, and two-dimensional materials.
Tomoki Ozawa obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. After working as a postdoc at the Bose-Einstein Condensation Center at the University of Trento and Senior Research Scientist at RIKEN, he joined the Advanced Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University in 2020 as an Associate Professor. His research interest is in the theory of many-body and topological physics in condensed matter and AMO systems.
Luqi Yuan is currently a faculty in School of Physics and Astronomy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his PhD degree in Physics from Texas A&M University in 2014, and was a postdoctoral scholar from 2014 to 2018 at Stanford University. His research interests span broad fields among quantum optics, photonics, AMO physics, and nonlinear optics, including topological photonics, synthetic dimensions in photonics, hybrid quantum systems, and light-matter interactions. Dr. Yuan has authored over 80 peer-reviewed papers, including those in Science, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, and Light: Science and Applications.
