ERC Starting Grant · 2021
Non-Hermitian Topological Physics in Grand Canonical Photon Lattices
Topology is a powerful paradigm for the classification of phases of matter. One of its direct manifestations in the widely studied Hermitian systems, which are isolated from the environment, are robust states that emerge at the interfaces between matter with distinct topological order. Real systems, however, are never truly isolated from their surroundings and the influence of the environment on the topologically protected states remains to a large extent unknown. Even more importantly, understanding and controlling the openness of non-Hermitian systems can provide fundamentally new ways to create novel topological states of matter. TopoGrand will realise a new experimental platform to…
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