Observation of topologically protected bound states in photonic quantum walks

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kitagawa, Takuya ^a   Broome, Matthew A ^b   Fedrizzi, Alessandro ^b   Rudner, Mark S ^a   Berg, Erez ^a   Kassal, Ivan ^b,c   Aspuru Guzik, Alán ^c   Demler, Eugene ^a   White, Andrew G ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM WALK; REVIEW;

EID: 84863317703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1872     Document Type: Review

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