How to directly observe Landau levels in driven-dissipative strained honeycomb lattices

Year: 2015

Authors: Salerno G., Ozawa T., Price HM., Carusotto I.

Autors Affiliation: Univ Trento, INO CNR BEC Ctr, I-38123 Povo, Italy;‎ Univ Trento, Dept Phys, I-38123 Povo, Italy

Abstract: We study the driven-dissipative steady-state of a coherently driven Bose field in a honeycomb lattice geometry. In the presence of a suitable spatial modulation of the hopping amplitudes, a valley-dependent artificial magnetic field appears and the low-energy eigenmodes have the form of relativistic Landau levels. We show how the main properties of the Landau levels can be extracted by observing the peaks in the absorption spectrum of the system and the corresponding spatial intensity distribution. Finally, quantitative predictions for realistic lattices based on photonic or microwave technologies are discussed.

Journal/Review: 2D MATERIALS

Volume: 2 (3)      Pages from: 034015-1  to: 034015-12

KeyWords: artificial magnetic fields; photonic lattices; strained graphene
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/2/3/034015

Citations: 22
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