Observation of Landau levels in photonic crystals

Published today in Nature Photonics: our observation of Landau levels in silicon photonic crystals. By introducing synthetic strain to the crystal geometry, photons are stopped in their tracks as if they were electrons in a strong magnetic field. Such subtle crystal deformations thus offer a new mechanism to control light and its interaction with matter at the nanoscale. Congratulations René Barczyk for the great work and thanks Kobus Kuipers for the nice collaboration. Check out our news item and the paper itself. Related work by Mikael Rechtsman and colleagues is out at the same time, and both works got described in a nice News & Views article in Nature Photonics.