Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Photonic zero mode in a non-Hermitian photonic lattice

  • Mingsen Pan,
  • Han Zhao,
  • Pei Miao,
  • Stefano Longhi,
  • Liang Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03822-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Zero-energy states such as Majorana fermions could improve quantum computation, but they are not stable under strong coupling conditions. Here, Pan et al. demonstrate a photonic implementation of a topologically protected, non-Hermitian-enhanced, thus stable, zero mode in a non-Hermitian lattice.