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Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials that gain their remarkable mechanical properties, such as negative Poisson's ratios, negative compressibility, phononic bandgaps, and topological phonon modes, from their structure rather…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-07 D. Zeb Rocklin , Shangnan Zhou , Kai Sun , Xiaoming Mao

The exchange interaction at interfaces between superconductors (SCs) and ferromagnets (FMs) has been a central topic in condensed matter physics for many decades, starting with the prediction of exotic phases such as the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-09 Tao Yu , Xi-Han Zhou , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Irina Bobkova

Space-time varying metamaterials based on uniform-velocity modulation have spurred considerable interest over the past decade. We present here the first extensive investigation of accelerated modulation space-time metamaterials. Using the…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-28 Amir Bahrami , Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger , Christophe Caloz

The study of superconducting materials that also possess nontrivial correlations or interactions remains an active frontier of condensed matter physics. NbSe$_2$ belongs to this class of superconductors and recent research has focused on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-18 S. Tran , J. Sell , J. R. Williams

Ultracold atoms confined by engineered magnetic or optical potentials are ideal systems for studying phenomena otherwise difficult to realize or probe in the solid state because their atomic interaction strength, number of species, density,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-20 Chih-Chun Chien , Sebastiano Peotta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as a versatile and powerful platform for quantum technologies, offering atomic-scale control, strong quantum confinement, and seamless integration into heterogeneous device architectures. Their…

The interest in two-dimensional and layered materials continues to expand, driven by the compelling properties of individual atomic layers that can be stacked and/or twisted into synthetic heterostructures. The plethora of electronic…

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

We present results of numerical simulations of a metamaterial element (meta-atom) for planar negative media based on cuprate Josephson junctions. The proposed circuit consists of two coupled resonators: "magnetic dipole" and "electric…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-06 A. V. Shadrin , S. E. Bankov , G. A. Ovsyannikov , K. Y. Constantinian

Spatial structuring of materials at subwavelength scales underlies the concept of metamaterials possessing exotic properties beyond those of the constituent media. Temporal modulation of material parameters enables further functionalities.…

We have prepared meta-atoms based on radio frequency superconducting quantum interference devices (RF SQUIDs) and examined their tunability with dc magnetic field, rf current, and temperature. RF SQUIDs are superconducting split ring…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-24 M. Trepanier , Daimeng Zhang , Oleg Mukhanov , Steven M. Anlage

The ability to engineer metamaterials with tunable nonlinear optical properties is crucial for nonlinear optics. Traditionally, metals have been employed to enhance nonlinear optical interactions through field localization. Here, inspired…

Mechanism - collections of rigid elements coupled by perfect hinges which exhibit a zero-energy motion -- motivate the design of a variety of mechanical metamaterials. We significantly enlarge this design space by considering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-23 Nitin Singh , Martin van Hecke

Metamaterials based on mechanical elements have been developed over the past decade as a powerful platform for exploring analogs of electron transport in exotic regimes that are hard to produce in real materials. In addition to enabling new…

Planar arrays of magnetoinductively coupled rf SQUIDs belong to the emergent class of superconducting metamaterials that encompass the Josephson effect. SQUID metamaterials acquire their electromagnetic properties from the resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 N. Lazarides , G. P. Tsironis

In order to understand the emergence of superconductivity it is useful to study and identify the various pathways leading to the destruction of superconductivity. One way is to use the increase in Coulomb-repulsion due to the increase in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-03 Benjamin Sacépé , Mikhail Feigel'man , Teunis M. Klapwijk

Superconducting metamaterials comprising rf SQUIDs (Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices) have been recently realized and investigated with respect to their tuneability, permeability and dynamic multistability properties. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 G. P. Tsironis , N. Lazarides , I. Margaris

We propose a superconducting metamaterial design consisting of meta-atoms (MAs) which are each composed of a direct current (dc) superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) and a superconducting rod. This design provides negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 O. V. Shramkova , N. Lazarides , G. P. Tsironis , A. V. Ustinov

The transition mechanism of metal-insulator in metal oxides is discussed in detail, which is a part of the mechanism of superconductivity. Through the study of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene superconductor and other new findings on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-24 Yu-Ru Ge , Xin Zhao , Hong Zhao , Xue-Shu Zhao

An overview of several dynamic properties of SQUID metamaterials is given in the presence of both constant and alternating magnetic field. The total current as a function of the driving frequency exhibits hysteretic effects which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-25 G. P. Tsironis , N. Lazarides