

Abstract: Photonic topological quasiparticles, such as skyrmions and hopfions, are structured light fields with versatile topological configurations in space and time domains. This makes them promising information carriers for various topology-based applications. However, effectively controlling photonic quasiparticles by using external fields remains challenging because they are, in essence, neutral particles. Therefore, these quasiparticles do not exhibit direct coupling with external electric and magnetic fields. Here we synthesized a two-level photonic system via photonic quasiparticle–crystal interaction; two orthogonal components of the quasiparticle emulate the spin-up and spin-down. By creating and electrically controlling a pseudomagnetic field that acts on the two-level system, we demonstrated a unique geometric phase in the topological quasiparticles. Using this two-level platform, we demonstrated electrical tuning of non-trivial transitions between different photonic skyrmions in two-dimensional space and hopfions in three-dimensional space. This specific technique can be generalized to control other topological quasiparticles, such as skyrmion bundles and braids. Our demonstration provides a route to electrically controlling photonic topological quasiparticles, paving the way for optoelectronic applications with topological structures in classical and quantum information processing.