Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Topological phase transitions and chiral inelastic transport induced by the squeezing of light

  • Vittorio Peano,
  • Martin Houde,
  • Christian Brendel,
  • Florian Marquardt,
  • Aashish A. Clerk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10779
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Most known topological states of light are in the end closely analogous to fermionic states. Here, the authors show that the squeezing of light can lead to the formation of photonic topological states which do not have any fermionic counterpart yet support unusual chiral edge states.