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 …

Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics

M Kang, T Liu, CT Chan, M Xiao - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their
interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counterintuitive …

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 …

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 …

Topological phases in acoustic and mechanical systems

G Ma, M Xiao, CT Chan - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The study of classical wave physics has been reinvigorated by incorporating the concept of
the geometric phase, which has its roots in optics, and topological notions that were …

Merging bound states in the continuum at off-high symmetry points

M Kang, S Zhang, M Xiao, H Xu - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) confine resonances embedded in a continuous
spectrum by eliminating radiation loss. Merging multiple BICs provides a promising …

Topological phononic metamaterials

W Zhu, W Deng, Y Liu, J Lu, HX Wang… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The concept of topological energy bands and their manifestations have been demonstrated
in condensed matter systems as a fantastic paradigm toward unprecedented physical …

Formation of bound states in the continuum in hybrid plasmonic-photonic systems

SI Azzam, VM Shalaev, A Boltasseva, AV Kildishev - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a localized state of an open structure with access to
radiation channels, yet it remains highly confined with, in theory, an infinite lifetime and …

From photonic crystals to seismic metamaterials: A review via phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials

Muhammad, CW Lim - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
The advancement in electromagnetic metamaterials, which commenced three decades ago,
experienced a rapid transformation into acoustic and elastic systems in the forms of …

Unconventional singularity in anti-parity-time symmetric cavity magnonics

Y Yang, YP Wang, JW Rao, YS Gui, BM Yao, W Lu… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
By engineering an anti-parity-time (anti-PT) symmetric cavity magnonics system with precise
eigenspace controllability, we observe two different singularities in the same system. One …