2018/06/13 by Artem V. Pankov, Ilya D. Vatnik, Dmitry V. Churkin +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Acoustics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory #Lattice (music) #Lattice gauge theory #Materials science #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Random lasers and scattering media #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/s41598-019-39916-6
published as Scientific Reports 9, 3464 (2019) · 4 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2018/06/13 · openalex publication_date 2019/03/05 · arxiv updated 2019/03/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We predict a generic mechanism of wave localization at an interface between uniform artificial gauge fields, arising due to propagation-dependent phase accumulation similar to Aharonov-Bohm phenomenon. We realize experimentally a synthetic mesh lattice with real-time control over the vector gauge field, and observe robust localization under a broad variation of gauge strength and direction, as well as structural lattice parameters. This suggests new possibilities for confining and guiding waves in diverse physical systems through the synthetic gauge fields.