Mathematical Physics Seminar, Tues, Nov 14, 4:30pm, Jadwin A07, Michael I. Weinstein, Columbia / Princeton / IAS,"Pseudo-magnetism and Landau Levels in Deformed Honeycomb Structures"

Date
Nov 14, 2023, 4:30 pm5:30 pm
Location
Jadwin Hall A07

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A non-uniform deformation of a honeycomb medium induces effective-magnetic and effective-electric fields. One may choose a deformation which gives rise to a constant perpendicular effective-magnetic field with Landau-level spectrum (flat bands). In the setting of photonic crystals, the tight binding model is generally not applicable. I’ll present a continuum theory, and some rigorous and formal asymptotic results (joint work with J. Guglielmon and M. Rechtsman - Phys. Rev. A 103 2021), and then review very recent experimental confirmation of this theory (Barsukova et al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04011).

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Department of Physics