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Abstract |
When confining photons in semiconductor lattices, their physical properties can be deeply
modified. Photons can behave as massive, or even infinitely massive, particles, photons can
propagate along edge states without back scattering, photons can become superfluid, photons
can behave as interacting particles. These are just a few examples of the properties that can be
imprinted into fluids of light in semiconductor lattices. Such manipulation of light presents not
only potential for applications in photonics, but it is also a great promise for fundamental
studies. One can design artificial media with very exotic physical properties at the single
particle level or even more interestingly with many-body interactions.
I will illustrate the variety of physical systems we can emulate with fluids of light by presenting
a few recent experiments. Perspectives in terms of quantum simulation will be discussed. |
