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14 papers

physics.optics2026

Single-Shot Realization of 10000-Mode Octave-Spanning Artificial Gauge Fields

Lida Xu, Apurva Padhye, Supratik Sarkar +6

Artificial gauge fields (AGFs) enable photons and other bosons to emulate fermionic phenomena such as chiral edge transport and quantum Hall phases; however, existing theories and…

quant-ph2026

Prethermal cooling with many-body quantum quenches

Jacob F. Steiner, Mohammad Hafezi, Stefan Kehrein +1

Many-body quantum quenches are typically associated with heating. In this work, we show that quantum quenches that perform positive work on the system can still lead to effective c…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Purely electronic model for exciton-polaron formation in moiré heterostructures

Fabian Pichler, Mohammad Hafezi, Michael Knap

Understanding interactions between excitons and correlated electronic states presents a fundamental challenge in quantum many-body physics. Here, we introduce a purely electronic m…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Probing Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Twisted Bilayer WSe2 via Attractive Polaron Spectroscopy

Beini Gao, Mahdi Ghafariasl, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad +15

Moiré superlattices in semiconductors exhibit a rich variety of interaction-induced topological states, including quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effects. A recent study hinted that…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Fractional Chern insulator edges: crystalline effects and optical measurements

Yan-Qi Wang, Johannes Motruk, Andrey Grankin +1

Edge states of chiral topologically ordered phases are commonly described by chiral Luttinger liquids, effective theories that are exact only in the hydrodynamic limit. Motivated b…

physics.optics2025

Quantum Metamorphosis: Programmable Emergence and the Breakdown of Bulk-Edge Dichotomy in Multiscale Systems

Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Alireza Parhizkar, Lida Xu +6

Multiscale synergy -- the interplay of a system's distinct characteristic length, time, and energy scales -- is becoming a unifying thread across many contemporary branches of scie…