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Topological Maxwell Metal Bands in a Superconducting Qutrit
Xinsheng Tan1, Dan-Wei Zhang2, Qiang Liu1
1National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
Abstract:
We experimentally explore the topological Maxwell metal bands by mapping the momentum space of condensed-matter models to the tunable parameter space of superconducting quantum circuits. An exotic band structure that is effectively described by the spin-1 Maxwell equations is imaged. Threefold degenerate points dubbed Maxwell points are observed in the Maxwell metal bands. Moreover, we engineer and observe the topological phase transition from the topological Maxwell metal to a trivial insulator, and report the first experiment to measure the Chern numbers that are higher than one.
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