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 …

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 …

Acoustic realization of a four-dimensional higher-order Chern insulator and boundary-modes engineering

ZG Chen, W Zhu, Y Tan, L Wang, G Ma - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We present a theoretical study and experimental realization of a system that is
simultaneously a four-dimensional (4D) Chern insulator and a higher-order topological …

Probing two distinct types of topological rainbow concentrators related to the acoustic valley Hall insulator in synthesized three-dimensional space

Z Wang, Z Wang, H Li, Z Liu, J Luo, F Huang… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Synthesized three-dimensional space provides us with a platform to explore the intriguing
acoustic valley Hall insulator. In this paper, a rotational degree of freedom is introduced to …

Ideal type-II Weyl phases and surface states for elastic waves in three-dimensional solid phononic crystals

SY Huo, HB Huang, CM Fu, JJ Chen - Physica Scripta, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of Weyl semimetals (WSs) has been attracting widely attention due to the fact that
the Weyl point (WP) and associated topological invariants enable WSs to exhibit a variety of …

Acoustic Weyl semimetals in synthetic dimensions

L Zheng, C Qin, XF Zhu, S Chen, L Zhao, Z Liu… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Here, we propose the construction of acoustic Weyl semimetals in synthetic dimensions
based on a 2D coupling waveguide array under external dynamic modulations. The type-I …

Weyl points and nodal lines in acoustic synthetic parameter space

Z Wang, Z Wang, H Li, J Luo, X Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Weyl semimetals, which are a class of materials, have attracted extensive attention in
condensed matter physics. In this letter, we report one-dimensional layered sonic crystals …

Tunable bifunctional acoustic logic gates based on topological valley transport

Y Ge, B Shi, D Jia, H Sun, H Xue, S Yuan… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Valley degree of freedom has attracted great interest in the realization of topological edge
states in acoustic systems owing to its rich valley-contrasting physics and great potential …

Topological phase transitions of semimetal states in effective field theory models

X Ji, YW Sun - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2024 - Springer
Effective relativistic field theory models capable of realizing various gapless topological
states are presented in this work. We study the topological phase transitions of the Weyl and …

Competitions between topological states revisited by effective field theory

X Ji, YW Sun - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.07421, 2023 - arxiv.org
Effective field theory models capable of realizing various gapless topological states are
presented in this work. After reviewing the effective field models of the Weyl and nodal line …