posted on 2023-11-30, 20:57authored byAlessio D'Errico, Raouf Barboza, Rebeca Tudor, Alexandre Dauphin, Pietro Massignan, Lorenzo Marrucci, Filippo Cardano
Quantum walks are processes that model dynamics in coherent systems. Their experimental implementations proved key to unveil novel phenomena in Floquet topological insulators. Here we realize a photonic quantum walk in the presence of a synthetic gauge field, which mimics the action of an electric field on a charged particle. By tuning the energy gaps between the two quasi-energy bands, we investigate intriguing system dynamics characterized by the interplay between Bloch oscillations and Landau-Zener transitions. When both gaps at quasi-energy values 0 and $\pi$ are vanishingly small, the Floquet dynamics follows a ballistic spreading.
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