Synchronization-induced flat bands in driven-dissipative dimer-waveguide chains
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| author | Osipov, A. N. Savenko, I. G. Flach, Sergej Yulin, A. V. |
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| contents | Flat bands in driven-dissipative systems offer a route to engineer strongly localized, long-lived excitations, yet their selective population via incoherent pumping remains an open challenge. We study a one-dimensional chain of coupled lasing dimers arranged in a cross-stitch geometry and show that the synchronization regime of the individual dimers, controllable through pump intensity or inter-resonator distance, determines the character of the flat band hosted by the chain. In the in-phase (ferromagnetic) regime, the flat band appears as a subdominant, damped mode in the linear excitation spectrum. In the antiphase (antiferromagnetic) regime, by contrast, the dimers decouple and the flat band becomes the dominant, neutrally stable mode: it corresponds to an infinite family of Goldstone modes arising from the independent phase rotations of non-interacting dimers, and its compact localized states are directly observable in the noise response spectrum. Switching between these two regimes via pump control constitutes a pump-induced phase transition of the lasing lattice. Our results establish synchronization engineering as a practical mechanism for selective flat-band population in driven-dissipative optical systems, and open new avenues for studying flat-band physics, including nonlinear effects, Fano resonances, and excitation coherence in experimentally accessible laser and polariton platforms. |
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| spellingShingle | Synchronization-induced flat bands in driven-dissipative dimer-waveguide chains Osipov, A. N. Savenko, I. G. Flach, Sergej Yulin, A. V. Optics Other Condensed Matter Flat bands in driven-dissipative systems offer a route to engineer strongly localized, long-lived excitations, yet their selective population via incoherent pumping remains an open challenge. We study a one-dimensional chain of coupled lasing dimers arranged in a cross-stitch geometry and show that the synchronization regime of the individual dimers, controllable through pump intensity or inter-resonator distance, determines the character of the flat band hosted by the chain. In the in-phase (ferromagnetic) regime, the flat band appears as a subdominant, damped mode in the linear excitation spectrum. In the antiphase (antiferromagnetic) regime, by contrast, the dimers decouple and the flat band becomes the dominant, neutrally stable mode: it corresponds to an infinite family of Goldstone modes arising from the independent phase rotations of non-interacting dimers, and its compact localized states are directly observable in the noise response spectrum. Switching between these two regimes via pump control constitutes a pump-induced phase transition of the lasing lattice. Our results establish synchronization engineering as a practical mechanism for selective flat-band population in driven-dissipative optical systems, and open new avenues for studying flat-band physics, including nonlinear effects, Fano resonances, and excitation coherence in experimentally accessible laser and polariton platforms. |
| title | Synchronization-induced flat bands in driven-dissipative dimer-waveguide chains |
| topic | Optics Other Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26042 |