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The resonant elements that grant metamaterials their unique properties have the fundamental limitation of restricting their useable frequency bandwidth. The development of frequency-agile metamaterials has helped to alleviate these…

Micron-sized superconducting interference devices ($\mu$-SQUIDs) based on constrictions optimized for minimizing thermal runaway are shown to exhibit voltage oscillations with applied magnetic flux despite their hysteretic behavior. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-28 Sourav Biswas , Clemens B. Winkelmann , Hervé Courtois , Anjan K. Gupta

Diffusion metamaterials with artificial spatial structures have significant potential in controlling energy and mass transfer. Those static structures may lead to functionality and tunability constraints, impeding the application scope of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Jinrong Liu , Liujun Xu , Jiping Huang

Mechanical metamaterials are artificial composites with tunable advanced mechanical properties. Particularly interesting types of mechanical metamaterials are flexible metamaterials, which harness internal rotations and instabilities to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-15 David M. J. Dykstra , Joris Busink , Bernard Ennis , Corentin Coulais

Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial systems but no complete, uncontested theory even in the simplest form, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), exists. Many theories and phenomenologies focus on the joint…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

Structures with artificial mechanical properties, often called mechanical metamaterials, exhibit divergent yet tunable performance. Various types of mechanical metamaterials have been proposed, which harness light or magnetic interactions,…

We theoretically study the transmission properties of a stack of metallic metamaterials and show that is able to achieve a perfect transmission selectively exhibiting broadband ($Q<10$) or extremely narrowband ($Q>10^5$) polarization…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Xavier Romain , Fadi Baida , Philippe Boyer

Metamaterials are arrangement of basic building blocks that repeat in space, time, or both. These material systems serve as an excellent platform for controlling waves, such as engineering wavenumber band gaps, flat bands, and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Mohamed A. Elgamal , Osama R. Bilal

When tensioned, ordinary materials expand along the direction of the applied force. Here, we explore network concepts to design metamaterials exhibiting negative compressibility transitions, during which a material undergoes contraction…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-07-11 Zachary G. Nicolaou , Adilson E. Motter

We investigate the transient dynamics of a lumped-element oscillator based on a dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). The SQUID is shunted with a capacitor forming a nonlinear oscillator with resonance frequency in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-16 P. Bhupathi , Peter Groszkowski , M. P. DeFeo , Matthew Ware , Frank K. Wilhelm , B. L. T. Plourde

Quasiperiodic magnonic crystals, in contrast to their periodic counterparts, lack strict periodicity which gives rise to complex and localised spin wave spectra characterized by numerous band gaps and fractal features. Despite their…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Riya Mehta , Bivas Rana , Susmita Saha

We consider, for the first time, the effects of strong capacitive and inductive coupling between radio frequency Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (rf SQUIDs) in an overlapping metamaterial geometry when driven by rf flux at and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-28 Jingnan Cai , Robin Cantor , Johanne Hizanidis , Nikos Lazarides , Steven M. Anlage

A Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) inserted in a superconducting waveguide resonator imposes current and voltage boundary conditions that makes it suitable as a tuning element for the resonator modes. If such a SQUID…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Christian Kraglund Andersen , Klaus Mølmer

Metamaterials are constructed such that, for a narrow range of frequencies, the momentum density depends on the local displacement gradient, and the stress depends on the local velocity. In these models the momentum density generally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Graeme W. Milton

Electromagnetic properties of periodic two-dimensional sub-wavelength structures consisting of closely-packed inclusions of materials with negative dielectric permittivity $\epsilon$ in a dielectric host with positive $\epsilon_h$ can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Gennady Shvets , Yaroslav Urzhumov

Acoustic metamaterials are artificial structures, often lattice of resonators, with unusual properties. They can be engineered to stop wave propagation in specific frequency bands. Once manufactured, their dispersive qualities remain…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Thomas Daunizeau , Sinan Haliyo , David Gueorguiev , Vincent Hayward

The mobility of an overdamped particle, in a periodic potential tilted by a constant external field and moving in a medium with periodic friction coefficient is examined. When the potential and the friction coefficient have the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Debasis Dan , Mangal C. Mahato , A. M. Jayannavar

Anisotropic homogeneous metamaterials that are neither wholly dissipative nor wholly active at a specific frequency are permitted by classical electromagnetic theory. Well-established homogenization formalisms indicate that such a…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-22 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Constriction-based Josephson weak-links display a thermal bi-stability between two states exhibiting zero and finite voltages. This manifests in experiments either as hysteresis in weak-links current voltage characteristics or as random…

Superconducting metamaterials, which are designed and fabricated with structured fundamental circuit elements, have motivated recent developments of exploring unconventional quantum phenomena in circuit quantum electrodynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Xin Wang , Ya-Fen Lin , Jia-Qi Li , Wen-Xiao Liu , Hong-Rong Li