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| Controlling symmetry and localization with an artificial gauge field in a disordered quantum system |
| 2017-10-24
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| CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics | | Institute of Theoretical Physics | | Chinese Academy of Sciences | | Seminar | | Title 题目 | Controlling symmetry and localization with an artificial gauge field in a disordered quantum system | | Speaker 报告人 | Professor Radu Chicireanu | | Affiliation 所在单位 | Université de Lille 1, France | | Date 日期 | 2017年10月24日（周二）下午3：30 | | Venue 地点 | Room 322, ITP | | Abstract 摘要 | Anderson localization, the absence of diffusion in disordered media, draws its origins from the destructive interference between multiple scattering paths. The localization properties of disordered systems are expected to be dramatically sensitive to their symmetry characteristics. So far however, this question has been little explored experimentally. Here, we investigate the realization of an artificial gauge field in a synthetic (temporal) dimension of a disordered, periodically-driven (Floquet) quantum system. Tuning the strength of this gauge field allows us to control the time-reversal symmetry properties of the system, which we probe through the experimental observation of three symmetry-sensitive ‘smoking-gun’ signatures of localization. The first two are the coherent backscattering, marker of weak localization, and the coherent forward scattering, genuine interferential signature of Anderson localization, observed here for the first time. The third is the direct measurement of the \beta(g) scaling function in two different symmetry classes, allowing to demonstrate its universality and the one-parameter scaling hypothesis. | | Contact person 所内联系人 | 田矗舜 |
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