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Two independent experiments probed the predicted topological Anderson regime, where adding disorder can produce topology. Stützer and colleagues observed directional edge propagation emerging in a previously trivial, detuned array of helical optical waveguides. Meier and colleagues engineered disordered hopping between atomic momentum states and measured a mean chiral displacement whose finite-time evolution supported disorder-driven topology. Their complementary platforms showed how controlled disorder can create, as well as destroy, topological responses.
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The optical signal is light propagation in a paraxial Floquet analogue; the atomic signal is a finite-time bulk dynamical marker in a synthetic one-dimensional lattice. Neither measures quantized electronic conductance. The atomic data show broadened crossovers rather than exact integer plateaus, with theoretical and numerical input connecting the marker to winding numbers. These largely noninteracting demonstrations do not establish a strongly interacting topological fluid or general immunity to arbitrary disorder.
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- Photonic topological Anderson insulators (Nature560461–465, author-hosted publisher PDF including Methods and Extended Data)
- Observation of the topological Anderson insulator in disordered atomic wires (arXiv1802.02109v1)
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Simon Stützer; Yonatan Plotnik; Yaakov Lumer; Paraj Titum; Netanel H. Lindner; Mordechai Segev; Mikael C. Rechtsman; Alexander Szameit; Eric J. Meier; Fangzhao Alex An; Alexandre Dauphin; Maria Maffei; Pietro Massignan; Taylor L. Hughes; Bryce Gadway
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Disorder induces topological responses in photonic lattices and atomic wires
Two independent experiments probed the predicted topological Anderson regime, where adding disorder can produce topology. Stützer and colleagues observed directional edge propagation emerging in a previously trivial, detuned array of helical optical waveguides. Meier and colleagues engineered disordered hopping between atomic momentum states and measured a mean chiral displacement whose finite-time evolution supported disorder-driven topology. Their complementary platforms showed how controlled disorder can create, as well as destroy, topological responses.
Scientific scope
The optical signal is light propagation in a paraxial Floquet analogue; the atomic signal is a finite-time bulk dynamical marker in a synthetic one-dimensional lattice. Neither measures quantized electronic conductance. The atomic data show broadened crossovers rather than exact integer plateaus, with theoretical and numerical input connecting the marker to winding numbers. These largely noninteracting demonstrations do not establish a strongly interacting topological fluid or general immunity to arbitrary disorder.
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People and systems
Simon Stützer; Yonatan Plotnik; Yaakov Lumer; Paraj Titum; Netanel H. Lindner; Mordechai Segev; Mikael C. Rechtsman; Alexander Szameit; Eric J. Meier; Fangzhao Alex An; Alexandre Dauphin; Maria Maffei; Pietro Massignan; Taylor L. Hughes; Bryce Gadway
These are the listed authors of the cited contribution sources. Paper authorship does not quantify individual effort. An incomplete list is explicitly marked; same names are not automatically merged.