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2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald H. White ◽  
Thomas A. Haase ◽  
Dylan J. Brown ◽  
Maarten D. Hoogerland ◽  
Mojdeh S. Najafabadi ◽  
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Abstract Anderson localisation —the inhibition of wave propagation in disordered media— is a surprising interference phenomenon which is particularly intriguing in two-dimensional (2D) systems. While an ideal, non-interacting 2D system of infinite size is always localised, the localisation length-scale may be too large to be unambiguously observed in an experiment. In this sense, 2D is a marginal dimension between one-dimension, where all states are strongly localised, and three-dimensions, where a well-defined phase transition between localisation and delocalisation exists as the energy is increased. Here, we report the results of an experiment measuring the 2D transport of ultracold atoms between two reservoirs, which are connected by a channel containing pointlike disorder. The design overcomes many of the technical challenges that have hampered observation of localisation in previous works. We experimentally observe exponential localisation in a 2D ultracold atom system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Sturges ◽  
Mitchell D. Anderson ◽  
Adam Buraczewski ◽  
Morteza Navadeh-Toupchi ◽  
Albert F. Adiyatullin ◽  
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AbstractWe present an experimental signature of the Anderson localisation of microcavity polaritons, and provide a systematic study of the dependence on disorder strength. We reveal a controllable degree of localisation, as characterised by the inverse-participation ratio, by tuning the positional disorder of arrays of interacting mesas. This constitutes the realisation of disorder-induced localisation in a driven-dissipative system. In addition to being an ideal candidate for investigating localisation in this regime, microcavity polaritons hold promise for low-power, ultra-small devices and their localisation could be used as a resource in quantum memory and quantum information processing.


2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 5457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed F. Saleh ◽  
Claudio Conti ◽  
Fabio Biancalana

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