Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Experimental realization of Bloch oscillations in a parity-time synthetic silicon photonic lattice

  • Ye-Long Xu,
  • William S. Fegadolli,
  • Lin Gan,
  • Ming-Hui Lu,
  • Xiao-Ping Liu,
  • Zhi-Yuan Li,
  • Axel Scherer,
  • Yan-Feng Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11319
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Bloch oscillations are a fundamental electron transport phenomenon in condensed matter. Here, the authors experimentally realize spatial Bloch oscillations in a non-Hermitian integrated photonic system using CMOS compatible fabrication processes, contributing to improving the understanding of non-Hermitian transport phenomena.