Direct measurement of the Zak phase in topological Bloch bands

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 795-800

  Atala, Marcos ^a   Aidelsburger, Monika ^a   Barreiro, Julio T ^a,b   Abanin, Dmitry ^c   Kitagawa, Takuya ^c,d   Demler, Eugene ^c   Bloch, Immanuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RAKUTEN INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN WALLS; OPTICAL LATTICES; QUANTUM THEORY;

BLOCH OSCILLATIONS; BRILLOUIN ZONES; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRIC PHASE; GEOMETRIC PHASIS; ONE DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL LATTICE; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURE;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84892563791     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2790     Document Type: Article

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