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Tilman Esslinger Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Tilman Esslinger helped realize the Haldane model using ultracold gases in a driven optical honeycomb lattice. Circular motion of the lattice engineered complex tunneling amplitudes, while a site-energy offset supplied a competing symmetry-breaking control.
The experiment tuned between topologically distinct regimes and probed their energy-band structure. It converted a theoretical electronic model into an adjustable atomic system.[ref]
Experimental realisation of the topological Haldane model by Gregor Jotzu and others. Abstract: lattice modulation, competing symmetry breaking and topological transition
Portrait of Tilman Esslinger
. ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Fotograf: Hostettler, Heidi / Portr_19735 / CC BY-SA 4.0; photograph dated 4 September 2019. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.