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Photonics Research, Volume. 9, Issue 1, 81(2021)

Digital quantum simulation of Floquet topological phases with a solid-state quantum simulator Spotlight on Optics

Bing Chen1,2, Shuo Li3, Xianfei Hou1, Feifei Ge1, Feifei Zhou1, Peng Qian1, Feng Mei4,5,7、*, Suotang Jia4,5, Nanyang Xu1,8、*, and Heng Shen2,6,9、*
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  • 1School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • 3Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • 5Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • 6Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
  • 7e-mail: meifeng@sxu.edu.cn
  • 8e-mail: nyxu@hfut.edu.cn
  • 9e-mail: hengshen@nbi.dk
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    Bing Chen, Shuo Li, Xianfei Hou, Feifei Ge, Feifei Zhou, Peng Qian, Feng Mei, Suotang Jia, Nanyang Xu, Heng Shen. Digital quantum simulation of Floquet topological phases with a solid-state quantum simulator[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(1): 81

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    Category: Quantum Optics

    Received: Jul. 30, 2020

    Accepted: Nov. 15, 2020

    Published Online: Dec. 25, 2020

    The Author Email: Feng Mei (meifeng@sxu.edu.cn), Nanyang Xu (nyxu@hfut.edu.cn), Heng Shen (hengshen@nbi.dk)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.404163

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