Topological acoustics

H Xue, Y Yang, B Zhang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Topological acoustics is an emerging field that lies at the intersection of condensed matter
physics, mechanical structural design and acoustics engineering. It explores the design and …

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 …

Photonics of time-varying media

E Galiffi, R Tirole, S Yin, H Li, S Vezzoli… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, due
to the synergy between the discovery of highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near …

Mechanical computing

H Yasuda, PR Buskohl, A Gillman, TD Murphey… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Mechanical mechanisms have been used to process information for millennia, with famous
examples ranging from the Antikythera mechanism of the Ancient Greeks to the analytical …

Topological photonic crystals: physics, designs, and applications

GJ Tang, XT He, FL Shi, JW Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in topological photonics has not only proposed and realized novel
topological phenomena such as one‐way broadband propagation and robust transport of …

Non-hermitian physics

Y Ashida, Z Gong, M Ueda - Advances in Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
A review is given on the foundations and applications of non-Hermitian classical and
quantum physics. First, key theorems and central concepts in non-Hermitian linear algebra …

A second wave of topological phenomena in photonics and acoustics

X Zhang, F Zangeneh-Nejad, ZG Chen, MH Lu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Light and sound are the most ubiquitous forms of waves, associated with a variety of
phenomena and physical effects such as rainbows and echoes. Light and sound, both …

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 …

Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies

R Tirole, S Vezzoli, E Galiffi, I Robertson, D Maurice… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Double-slit experiments—where a wave is transmitted through a thin double aperture in
space—have confirmed the wave–particle duality of quantum objects, such as single …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …