Published September 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

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

  • 1. INO-CNR BEC Center and Department of Physics, University of Trento—via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Povo (Italy)

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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. (paper)

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/2/3/034015

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Journal Title
2D Materials
Journal Volume
2
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
[12 p.]
ISSN
2053-1583

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