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Birefringence aids photonic lattice simulations

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Harnessing birefringence in a photonic chip featuring an array of coupled waveguides brings new opportunities for investigating quantum effects such as bunching and antibunching.

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Fig. 1: Observation-based bosonic/fermionic statistics in a birefringent non-Hermitian lattice.

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  1. Center for Integrated Quantum Information Technologies (IQIT), School of Physics and Astronomy and State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Hao Tang & Xian-Min Jin

  2. CAS Center for Excellence and Synergetic Innovation Center in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

    Hao Tang & Xian-Min Jin

  3. TuringQ Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China

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Tang, H., Jin, XM. Birefringence aids photonic lattice simulations. Nat. Photon. 16, 178–179 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-00968-2

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