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Observation of localization of light in photonic quasicrystals of diverse symmetries

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Pith's one-line read Clean linear photonic quasicrystals localize light above a symmetry-dependent potential depth, with higher rotational symmetry lowering the threshold.

desk verdict A credible first observation of linear localization in photonic quasicrystals with a clean symmetry trend, but the sharp 'all modes extended below threshold' claim needs finite-size support. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.18253 v1 pith:BRJWNFEJ submitted 2024-12-24 physics.optics

Peng Wang , Qidong Fu , Vladimir V. Konotop , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Fangwei Ye This is my paper · ORCID
classification physics.optics
keywords photonicquasicrystalslightlocalizationlocalization-delocalizationtransitiondiscreterotationalsymmetryphotorefractivecrystalsopticalinductionaperiodicpotentialsformfactor
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The reading

Light propagating through a two-dimensional quasicrystal can become trapped by the quasicrystal's own interference pattern alone, with no disorder and no nonlinearity required. The paper demonstrates this experimentally in photorefractive crystals, using a probe beam launched at the centre or off-centre, for quasicrystals with five-fold through twelve-fold rotational symmetries. In every non-crystallographic case there is a depth of the induced optical potential above which a localized mode appears and below which the beam diffracts. The critical depth falls rapidly as the order of the rotational symmetry grows, for odd and even symmetries separately, and no such transition occurs for the periodic six-fold lattice. The result settles a long-standing question because earlier photonic-quasicrystal experiments only saw localization with added nonlinearity or disorder.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the optically induced quasicrystalline potential in the paraxial Schrödinger equation (1), $H = -\frac{1}{2}\nabla^2 + \frac{E_0}{1 + I_N(r)}$, where $I_N(r)$ is the intensity pattern from $N$ pairs of counterpropagating plane waves with wavevectors rotated by $2\pi/N$. The potential has $N$-fold dihedral symmetry and no translational symmetry for $N$ other than 2, 3, 4, and 6. The argument is carried by the integral form factor $\chi = \left(\iint |\psi|^4 d^2r\right)^{1/2}/U$, an inverse participation ratio that measures how tightly a mode is confined; the localization-delocalization transition is defined as the point where $\chi(E_0)$ changes slope. The mechanism is interference, not defect trapping: the energy $-\beta$ of the localized fundamental mode crosses several local potential minima, yet the mode stays confined near one maximum.

What would settle it

Grow the crystal (or enlarge the numerical window) at a fixed field just below a reported $E_{LDT,N}$ and measure the output form factor versus propagation length: if the form factor increases with length, or if a direct diagonalization on a larger supercell finds a localized eigenmode below threshold, the sharp transition claim would be falsified while the ordering of thresholds by $N$ could still hold.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that a clean linear two-dimensional quasicrystal supports localized eigenmodes once the depth of its optical potential exceeds a symmetry-dependent critical value, which the authors call the localization-delocalization transition point $E_{LDT,N}$. Below $E_{LDT,N}$ all eigenmodes of the Hamiltonian are extended; above it, at least the fundamental mode becomes spatially localized, with localization persisting for probe beams launched either at the rotational centre or at off-centre lattice maxima. The transition is diagnosed by a slope change in the form factor $\chi(E_0)$, the inverse participation ratio of the most confined eigenmode. The threshold decreases rapidly with $N$ within each parity class ($E_{LDT,5} > E_{LDT,7} > \cdots$ and $E_{LDT,8} > E_{LDT,10} > \cdots$), while a periodic $N=6$ lattice shows no transition for any field, ruling out disorder or defects as the cause. For deep potentials, form factors of all symmetries collapse onto a common asymptote $\chi_{\rm as} \approx -0.2138 + 0.3162\sqrt{E_0}$; in the $N\rightarrow\infty$ limit the potential tends to a Bessel-function form $[A J_0(2r)]^2$ and the threshold approaches a finite minimum $E_0 \approx 0.4572$. Experimentally, the thresholds for $N=5$ and $N=8$ are about 300 V/mm and 360 V/mm, and the measured dependence on $N$ matches the numerics.

Load-bearing premise

The sharp transition picture assumes that the finite 2 cm crystal and the finite numerical window represent an infinite quasicrystal: below the reported threshold every eigenmode stays extended, and the jump in the output form factor marks a true localization-delocalization transition rather than length-dependent diffraction suppression.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Any clean linear quasicrystal with a non-crystallographic rotational symmetry can confine light above a threshold potential depth, for both central and off-centre excitation, without disorder or nonlinearity.
  • Higher rotational symmetry lowers the threshold potential depth, so high-order quasicrystals ($N=9,11,12$ and beyond) localize light at applied fields where lower-order ones still diffract.
  • The odd- and even-order dihedral groups behave as two separate sequences, so symmetry parity, not just $N$, enters the threshold scaling.
  • In deeper potentials localization becomes essentially independent of $N$, with the mode width set by the central index maximum; the $N\rightarrow\infty$ Bessel limit sets the lowest possible threshold for this family of potentials.
  • Periodic lattices ($N=6$) show no localization, confirming that the quasicrystal's aperiodicity, not fabrication defects, is responsible.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the trend continues, quasicrystals with very high $N$ would localize light at index contrasts far below the values needed for $N=5$, making low-power optical confinement practical in other aperiodic wave systems.
  • The same interference-induced mechanism could be transferred to acoustic, atomic, or polaritonic systems, where the symmetry order $N$ would become a design knob for the localization threshold.
  • The connection the authors draw between threshold and filling fraction suggests a quantitative predictor: measure the central-to-peripheral index deviation of any aperiodic potential and one may estimate whether it will localize at a given depth.
  • A direct extension would be to trace localized eigenmodes below the numerical threshold in larger supercells; if a localized state appears, the sharp transition picture would need revision, but the ordering of thresholds by $N$ could still hold.
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Summary. Using optically induced photorefractive photonic quasicrystals formed by N interfering plane-wave pairs, the authors report experimental and numerical evidence that a probe beam remains localized on propagation when the lattice depth exceeds a threshold E_LDT^N, for N=5,7,8,9,10,11,12, while for the periodic N=6 lattice it never localizes. They find that the threshold decreases with N separately for odd and even symmetries and that central and off-center excitations give nearly the same threshold. They interpret a slope change in the numerically computed form factor of the highest-β eigenmode as a localization-delocalization transition, with all eigenmodes extended below threshold.

Significance. The experimental observation is significant: previous photonic-quasicrystal localization experiments involved nonlinearity or additional disorder, and the symmetry systematics reported here are new. The paper has a strong set of experimental controls: a periodic N=6 control, central versus off-center excitation, five repeated measurements at freshly rewritten lattice locations, low probe power, and the bias field turned off during probing. The central physical claim is plausible and likely reproducible. However, the sharp spectral-transition interpretation rests on a finite-window numerical eigenmode analysis whose finite-size control is not reported, and the 2 cm propagation length cannot by itself distinguish a stationary eigenmode from a very slowly diffracting wave packet.

major comments (3)
  1. [Fig. 2(a) and the paragraph 'The central result...' (pp. 6-7)] The claim that at E0 < ELDT_N all eigenmodes of H are extended is not established by the numerical data shown. The paper does not report the finite-difference window size, grid spacing, or boundary conditions used to solve Hw = -beta w. Since every eigenstate of a finite-window discretization is normalizable, the slope change in chi(E0) used to define ELDT_N can occur when the localization length becomes comparable to the window rather than at a true spectral transition. Please add a finite-size scaling analysis (e.g., chi(E0; L) for increasing L at fixed discretization and boundary conditions) and show that below the quoted threshold chi tends to zero as L grows and that the extracted threshold converges. The 2 cm propagation experiments, while strongly suggestive, cannot by themselves distinguish a genuinely stationary mode from a wave packet whose diffraction length exceeds the sample; presenting output width or form factor versus propagation distance would help. In the absence of such tests, the abstract's assertion that all eigenmodes are extended below ELDT_N should be softened to a statement about the absence of localized modes in the probed windows.
  2. [Experimental results section, p. 13 and Fig. 5(b)] There is an internal inconsistency in the description of the N=5 threshold. The text reports ELDT_5 approximately 300 V/mm and then states that Fig. 5(b), taken at E = 300 V/mm, is 'substantially lower than the critical field ELDT_5'. If the threshold is about 300 V/mm, the N=5 panel is at threshold, not clearly below it. Please give the precise threshold estimate with uncertainty and select a field that is unambiguously below the threshold, or relabel the panel as an at-threshold case, because this panel is used to illustrate the ordering of thresholds at fixed field.
  3. [Methods and Eq. (1)] The numerical thresholds are reported as dimensionless E0 values (e.g., ELDT_5 about 3.6 and ELDT_8 about 4.1) while the experimental thresholds are reported as applied fields (about 300 and 360 V/mm), but the manuscript does not give the value of the transverse length unit D used to convert E0 to the physical applied field, nor the mapping between the numerical lattice parameters k=2, A^2=2.24 and the experimental writing-beam configuration. Without stating D and the conversion used to compare Fig. 2(a) with Fig. 5(a), the claimed agreement between the numerical and experimental threshold systematics cannot be independently checked.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Fig. 5 and accompanying text] Please tabulate all measured ELDT_N values with uncertainties for N=5,7,8,9,10,11,12; the text quotes only N=5 and N=8, which makes the claimed rapid-decrease trend difficult to verify quantitatively from the prose alone.
  2. [p. 7, discussion of ordering] The sentence 'Meantime, for quasicrystals belonging to dihedral groups of even and odd orders the critical depths are not strictly alternating, for example, ELDT_8 > ELDT_5 > ELDT_10 > ELDT_12' mixes even and odd orders; presenting the full ordered sequence of measured thresholds would make the separate odd/even monotonicity transparent.
  3. [Fig. 2(a) and asymptotic formula] The asymptotic formula chi_as approximately -0.2138 + 0.3162 sqrt(E0) is described as 'well approximated'; please state whether the constants are obtained by fitting and over what E0 range, or provide a derivation from the limiting Bessel potential.
  4. [p. 13, propagation-distance statement] The statement that the translation stage allows recording of the intensity at every distance z inside the sample would be more convincing if at least one z-scan (output width or form factor versus propagation distance) were shown above and below the threshold; the main figures show only output distributions.
  5. [Fig. 2(b,c) and numerical details] Although the displayed profiles cover -20 <= x,y <= 20, the text says the calculation window is 'much larger'; please state the actual window size, grid spacing, and boundary conditions used in the eigenvalue solver, as these are needed to reproduce the numerical thresholds.

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No significant circularity: the experimental observation and numerical eigenmode analysis are independent; threshold definitions are operational, and prior self-citations are contextual, not load-bearing.

full rationale

The central claim is an experimental observation of output-beam localization in optically induced photonic quasicrystals, compared against finite-difference eigenmode solutions of Eq. (1). The lattice parameters k=2, φ=π/10, A^2=2.24 are fixed by the writing-beam geometry and intensity normalization, not fitted to the reported thresholds. The numerical form factors χ(E0) in Fig. 2(a) are computed directly from eigenmodes; ELDT_N is operationally defined as the slope-change point of these curves, and the 'localized above / extended below' statement is corroborated by the mode profiles in Figs. 2(b,c), the DOS results in Fig. S1, and the propagation simulations in Fig. 3, so it is not obtained by fitting a parameter to the conclusion. The asymptotic curve χ_as ≈ -0.2138 + 0.3162√E0 is explicitly a descriptive approximation ('well approximated by the formula') and is not used to infer the thresholds. Refs. [27] and [28] are prior same-group works on moiré lattices, but they are cited only as background; the present LDT thresholds and symmetry ordering are computed and measured here. The N→∞ limit uses the standard Bessel-function identity and cites Landau-Lifshitz and Simon only to note that their weak-coupling bound-state theorems do not apply. The main caveat is finite-size: the eigenvalue problem is solved in a finite-difference window whose size is not stated, and the 2 cm propagation experiment cannot fully exclude finite-length diffraction, so the sharp 'all eigenmodes are extended below ELDT_N' claim would need finite-size scaling to be rigorous. That is a correctness/interpretation risk, not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on domain assumptions about the cleanliness and symmetries of the optically induced potential, plus the choice of several fixed numerical parameters. No new particles or entities are introduced. The main epistemic load is the finite-window numerical evidence for a sharp LDT and the extrapolation to 'all eigenmodes extended' below threshold.

free parameters (4)
  • k (transverse wavevector magnitude) = 2
    Sets the lattice periodicity in all numerical simulations and is matched to the experimental writing-beam geometry; not fitted to the LDT threshold.
  • phi (stationary phase) = pi/10
    Nonzero phase breaks inversion symmetry to allow odd-order rotational quasicrystals; fixed across all N, not tuned to thresholds.
  • A^2 (plane-wave amplitude normalization) = 2.24
    Chosen so the maximum lattice intensity and potential depth are equal for all N; standardizes comparisons but is not fitted to localization thresholds.
  • asymptotic form-factor fit chi_as = -0.2138 + 0.3162*sqrt(E0)
    Empirical fit to numerical form-factor curves above threshold; descriptive and not used to establish the existence of the LDT.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Paraxial scalar Schrodinger equation with saturable potential E0/(1+I_N) describes extraordinary-polarized probe propagation in the photorefractive lattice (Eq. 1).
    Standard model for optically induced photorefractive lattices; assumes no nonlinear self-action of the probe and a static index pattern.
  • domain assumption The interference of N pairs of plane waves produces a clean, defect-free quasicrystalline potential with dihedral symmetry D_N.
    The lattice is assumed to be free of disorder; the N=6 periodic control and repeated rewriting are used as evidence, but absence of all defects is not directly measured.
  • domain assumption Finite-window numerical diagonalization and the slope-change criterion identify the localization-delocalization transition of the infinite quasicrystal.
    The paper reports that all eigenmodes are extended below ELDT based on finite-window computations; this is an inference, not a proven statement for the infinite system.
  • domain assumption The lattice is written with ordinary polarization and read with extraordinary polarization, so the writing beam does not self-distort.
    Uses anisotropic electro-optic coefficients r13 vs r33; standard for SBN but a modeling simplification.
  • standard math Standard finite-difference and split-step Fourier methods are used to solve Eq. (1).
    Numerical methods are standard; no formal verification is provided.

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Quasicrystals are ubiquitous in nature. Beyond crystalline solids, they can be created as optically induced or technologically fabricated structures in photonic and phononic systems, as potentials for cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). On a parwith the unusual structural properties of quasicrystals, nowadays the problem of wave propagation in such two-dimensional structures attracts considerable attention, already in earlier studies it was predicted that the lowest electronic states in five-fold quasicrystals are localized. Later on localization of BECs in an eight-fold rotational symmetric quasicrystal optical lattices was observed. Direct observation of localization in purely linear photonic quasicrystals, therefore, remains elusive. Here, using sets of interfering plane waves, we create photonic two-dimensional quasicrystals with different rotational symmetries, not allowed in periodic crystallographic structures. We demonstrate experimentally that linear localization of light does occur even in clean linear quasicrystals for probe beams propagating both in the center and off-center regions of the quasicrystals. We found that light localization occurs above a critical depth of optically induced potential and that this critical depth rapidly decreases with the increase of the order of the discrete rotational symmetry of the quasicrystal. Our results clarify a long-standing problem of wave localization in linear quasicrystals and elucidate the conditions under which this phenomenon occurs. These findings pave the way for achieving wave localization in a wide variety of aperiodic systems obeying discrete symmetries, with possible applications in photonics, atomic physics, acoustics, and condensed matter.

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