Topological pumping of light governed by Fibonacci numbers
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| author | Peng, Ruihan Yang, Kai Fu, Qidong Chen, Yanli Wang, Peng Kartashov, Yaroslav V. Konotop, Vladimir V. Ye, Fangwei |
| author_facet | Peng, Ruihan Yang, Kai Fu, Qidong Chen, Yanli Wang, Peng Kartashov, Yaroslav V. Konotop, Vladimir V. Ye, Fangwei |
| contents | Topological pumping refers to transfer of a physical quantity governed by the systemtopology, resulting in quantized amounts of the transferred quantities. It is a ubiqui-tous wave phenomenon typically considered subject to exactly periodic adiabatic vari-ation of the system parameters. Recently, proposals for generalizing quasi-periodictopological pumping and identifying possible physical settings for its implementa-tion have emerged. In a strict sense, pumping with incommensurate frequencies canonly manifest over infinite evolution distances, raising a fundamental question aboutits observability in real-world finite-dimensional systems. Here we demonstrate thatbi-chromatic topological pumping with two frequencies, whose ratio is an irrationalnumber, can be viewed as the convergence limit of pumping with two commensuratefrequencies representing the best rational approximations of that irrational number. In our experiment, this phenomenon is observed as the displacement of a light beamcenter in photorefractive crystals induced by two optical lattices. The longitudinalperiods of the lattices, that in the paraxial approximation emulate two pumping fre-quencies, are related as Fibonacci numbers, successively approaching the golden ratio. We observed that a one-cycle displacement of the beam center at each successiveapproximation is determined by the relation between successive Fibonacci numbers,while the average direction of propagation (emulating average pumping velocity) ofthe beam is determined by the golden ratio. |
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| spellingShingle | Topological pumping of light governed by Fibonacci numbers Peng, Ruihan Yang, Kai Fu, Qidong Chen, Yanli Wang, Peng Kartashov, Yaroslav V. Konotop, Vladimir V. Ye, Fangwei Optics Topological pumping refers to transfer of a physical quantity governed by the systemtopology, resulting in quantized amounts of the transferred quantities. It is a ubiqui-tous wave phenomenon typically considered subject to exactly periodic adiabatic vari-ation of the system parameters. Recently, proposals for generalizing quasi-periodictopological pumping and identifying possible physical settings for its implementa-tion have emerged. In a strict sense, pumping with incommensurate frequencies canonly manifest over infinite evolution distances, raising a fundamental question aboutits observability in real-world finite-dimensional systems. Here we demonstrate thatbi-chromatic topological pumping with two frequencies, whose ratio is an irrationalnumber, can be viewed as the convergence limit of pumping with two commensuratefrequencies representing the best rational approximations of that irrational number. In our experiment, this phenomenon is observed as the displacement of a light beamcenter in photorefractive crystals induced by two optical lattices. The longitudinalperiods of the lattices, that in the paraxial approximation emulate two pumping fre-quencies, are related as Fibonacci numbers, successively approaching the golden ratio. We observed that a one-cycle displacement of the beam center at each successiveapproximation is determined by the relation between successive Fibonacci numbers,while the average direction of propagation (emulating average pumping velocity) ofthe beam is determined by the golden ratio. |
| title | Topological pumping of light governed by Fibonacci numbers |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04910 |