Nature Communications (May 2019)

Observation of emergent momentum–time skyrmions in parity–time-symmetric non-unitary quench dynamics

  • Kunkun Wang,
  • Xingze Qiu,
  • Lei Xiao,
  • Xiang Zhan,
  • Zhihao Bian,
  • Barry C. Sanders,
  • Wei Yi,
  • Peng Xue

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10252-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Dynamic topological phenomena remain challenging to be probed experimentally. Here, Wang et al. theoretically characterize and experimentally detect dynamical skyrmions in parity‐time‐symmetric non‐unitary quench dynamics in single‐photon discrete‐time quantum walks.