Pankov, AVatnik, I.D.Churkin, D.V.Sukhorukov, Andrey2020-02-182020-02-18http://hdl.handle.net/1885/201742We predict a generic mechanism of wave localization at an interface between uniform artificial gauge fields, arising due to propagation-dependent phase accumulation similar to Aharonov-Bohm phenomenon. We realize experimentally a synthetic mesh lattice with real-time control over the vector gauge field, and observe robust localization under a broad variation of gauge strength and direction, as well as structural lattice parameters. This suggests new possibilities for confining and guiding waves in diverse physical systems through the synthetic gauge fields.This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (16-12-10402). A.A.S. acknowledges support by the Australian Research Council (ARC) (DP160100619). I.D.V. acknowledges support of Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (3.7672.2017/8.9).6 pagesapplication/pdfen-AU© Te Author(s) 2019http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.Photonic crystals, Photonic devices, Quantum optics2019-03-0510.1038/s41598-019-39916-62019-11-25This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Te images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.