Acoustic metamaterials for noise reduction: a review

N Gao, Z Zhang, J Deng, X Guo… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Noise pollution has become a significant global problem in recent years. Unfortunately,
conventional acoustic materials cannot offer substantial improvements in noise reduction …

Controlling sound with acoustic metamaterials

SA Cummer, J Christensen, A Alù - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Acoustic metamaterials can manipulate and control sound waves in ways that are not
possible in conventional materials. Metamaterials with zero, or even negative, refractive …

Analogue computing with metamaterials

F Zangeneh-Nejad, DL Sounas, A Alù… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite their widespread use for performing advanced computational tasks, digital signal
processors suffer from several restrictions, including low speed, high power consumption …

Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials

H Nassar, B Yousefzadeh, R Fleury… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The law of reciprocity in acoustics and elastodynamics codifies a relation of symmetry
between action and reaction in fluids and solids. In its simplest form, it states that the …

Acoustic metamaterials: From local resonances to broad horizons

G Ma, P Sheng - Science advances, 2016 - science.org
Within a time span of 15 years, acoustic metamaterials have emerged from academic
curiosity to become an active field driven by scientific discoveries and diverse application …

Acoustic metasurfaces

B Assouar, B Liang, Y Wu, Y Li, JC Cheng… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Acoustic metasurfaces derive their characteristics from the interaction between acoustic
waves and specifically designed materials. The field is driven by the desire to control …

Nonlinear waves in -symmetric systems

VV Konotop, J Yang, DA Zezyulin - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Recent progress on nonlinear properties of parity-time (PT)-symmetric systems is
comprehensively reviewed in this article. PT symmetry started out in non-Hermitian quantum …

Tunable and active phononic crystals and metamaterials

YF Wang, YZ Wang, B Wu… - Applied …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Phononic crystals (PCs) and metamaterials (MMs) can exhibit abnormal properties, even far
beyond those found in nature, through artificial design of the topology or ordered structure of …

Nonreciprocal photon blockade

R Huang, A Miranowicz, JQ Liao, F Nori, H **g - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We propose how to create and manipulate one-way nonclassical light via photon blockade
in rotating nonlinear devices. We refer to this effect as nonreciprocal photon blockade (PB) …