Emergent cavity-QED dynamics along the edge of a photonic lattice
The study investigates how qubits coupled to a 2D photonic lattice edge exhibit dynamics similar to reversible cavityQED. By mapping bulk modes to 1D Rice-Mele models, researchers found that edge modes create an effective cavity where light-matter interactions are governed by a master equation. This reveals novel power-law mediated interactions and topological constraints on qubit localization.