Physical Review Letters
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Meissner-like Currents of Photons in Anomalous Superradiant Phases
Author(s): Linjun Li, Pengfei Huang, Zi-Xiang Hu, and Yu-Yu Zhang
We present Meissner-like photon currents in a quantum Rabi zigzag chain under staggered synthetic magnetic fields. The ground state of the Meissner superradiant phase hosts persistent chiral edge currents in a sequence of cancellation of antiparallel vortex pairs, akin to surface currents of the Mei… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 163601] Published Tue Oct 14, 2025