TY - JOUR
T1 - Inhomogeneous coupling induced quantized distribution of photonic states in Kagome lattices across different Landau levels
AU - Tao, Liyun
AU - Liu, Yahong
AU - Zhou, Xin
AU - Du, Lianlian
AU - Ma, Shaojie
AU - Yang, Xiaoyong
AU - Zhang, Jintao
AU - Li, Zhenfei
AU - Song, Kun
AU - Zhao, Xiaopeng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2025.
PY - 2025/12
Y1 - 2025/12
N2 - Recent progress has demonstrated that synthetic gauge fields can mimic Landau quantization in materials including graphene and lattices for sound and light. However, despite using graphene-like structures with strain-induced textures in prior photonics, it is hard to capture the experimental attainment of distinct photon bound states for various Landau levels. In this work, we introduce an experimental framework for achieving photonic Landau quantization. We present the quantized distribution of photonic states across different Landau levels in a two-dimensional Kagome metal lattice. By introducing inhomogeneous coupling, we implement two kinds of pseudomagnetic field, which quantize spectrums and quantizes distribution of photonic states, respectively. We experimentally observe that the electric field distribution is localized according to the positional attributes of different Landau levels. Our proposed system is more straightforward to implement, and it opens an avenue to explore photonic states at non-zero Landau levels, which are predicted to demonstrate some interesting physical phenomena.
AB - Recent progress has demonstrated that synthetic gauge fields can mimic Landau quantization in materials including graphene and lattices for sound and light. However, despite using graphene-like structures with strain-induced textures in prior photonics, it is hard to capture the experimental attainment of distinct photon bound states for various Landau levels. In this work, we introduce an experimental framework for achieving photonic Landau quantization. We present the quantized distribution of photonic states across different Landau levels in a two-dimensional Kagome metal lattice. By introducing inhomogeneous coupling, we implement two kinds of pseudomagnetic field, which quantize spectrums and quantizes distribution of photonic states, respectively. We experimentally observe that the electric field distribution is localized according to the positional attributes of different Landau levels. Our proposed system is more straightforward to implement, and it opens an avenue to explore photonic states at non-zero Landau levels, which are predicted to demonstrate some interesting physical phenomena.
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U2 - 10.1038/s42005-025-01946-0
DO - 10.1038/s42005-025-01946-0
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:85217851082
SN - 2399-3650
VL - 8
JO - Communications Physics
JF - Communications Physics
IS - 1
M1 - 24
ER -