Acoustic waves in solid and fluid layered materials

EH El Boudouti, B Djafari-Rouhani, A Akjouj… - Surface Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
This is a comprehensive theoretical survey of acoustic wave propagation in layered
materials including elastic, viscoelastic and piezoelectric layers. The phonon modes are …

Acoustic Analogue of Electronic Bloch Oscillations and Resonant Zener Tunneling<? format?> in Ultrasonic Superlattices

H Sanchis-Alepuz, YA Kosevich, J Sánchez-Dehesa - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
We demonstrate the existence of Bloch oscillations of acoustic fields in sound propagation
through a superlattice of water cavities and layers of methyl methacrylate. To obtain the …

Real-time imaging of acoustic waves in bulk materials with X-ray microscopy

TS Holstad, LE Dresselhaus-Marais… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The dynamics of lattice vibrations govern many material processes, such as acoustic wave
propagation, displacive phase transitions, and ballistic thermal transport. The maximum …

Coherent generation of acoustic phonons in an optical microcavity

ND Lanzillotti-Kimura, A Fainstein, A Huynh, B Perrin… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
Ultrafast coherent generation of acoustic phonons is studied in a semiconductor optical
microcavity. The confinement of the light pulse amplifies both the generation and the …

Engineering the hypersonic phononic band gap of hybrid Bragg stacks

D Schneider, F Liaqat, EH El Boudouti… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We report on the full control of phononic band diagrams for periodic stacks of alternating
layers of poly (methyl methacrylate) and porous silica combining Brillouin light scattering …

Phonon engineering with acoustic nanocavities: Theoretical considerations on phonon molecules, band structures, and acoustic Bloch oscillations

ND Lanzillotti-Kimura, A Fainstein, CA Balseiro… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
Acoustic nanocavities display localized acoustic states similar to the confined electronic
levels in atoms and quantum wells. Exploiting this parallel and concepts used in photonics …

Brillouin scattering in hybrid optophononic Bragg micropillar resonators at 300 GHz

M Esmann, FR Lamberti, A Harouri, L Lanco, I Sagnes… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Inelastic scattering of light by acoustic phonons has potential for the tailored generation of
frequency combs, laser-line narrowing, and all-optical data storage. To be efficient, these …

Bloch oscillations of THz acoustic phonons in coupled nanocavity structures

ND Lanzillotti-Kimura, A Fainstein, B Perrin… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
Nanophononic Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark ladders have been recently predicted
to exist in specifically tailored structures formed by coupled nanocavities. Using pump-probe …

Selective optical generation of coherent acoustic nanocavity modes

MF Pascual Winter, G Rozas, A Fainstein, B Jusserand… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
Femtosecond pump-probe experiments on a Ga 0.85 In 0.15 As nanocavity enclosed by two
Ga 0.85 In 0.15 As/AlAs phonon Bragg mirrors reveal selective generation of terahertz …

Steering sound propagation with Zeno barriers in acoustic waveguide arrays

ZX Huang, HW Wu, LL Cheng, PX **e, X Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In quantum systems, a counterintuitive phenomenon known as quantum Zeno dynamics is
usually exploited to tailor and protect the coherent evolution of quantum states by the back …