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Spatio-temporally modulated impedance surfaces can be good candidates for generation of radiating waves with arbitrary eigenstates by breaking momentum and energy conservations. Here, we present a theoretical framework based on the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Amrollah Amini , Homayoon Oraizi

Modulation of metasurfaces in time gives rise to several exotic space-time scattering phenomena by violating the reciprocity and generation of higher-order frequency harmonics. We introduce a new design paradigm for time-modulated…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Mohammad Mahdi Salary , Samad Jafar-Zanjani , Hossein Mosallaei

Photonic time crystals are electromagnetic media with periodically time-varying parameters, enabling momentum band gaps, parametric amplification, and frequency conversion beyond what is possible in time-invariant systems. So far, they have…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-15 Z. Li , M. S. Mirmoosa , V. Asadchy , X. Wang

In this work, we study the transport of vorticity on curved dynamical two-dimensional magnetic membranes. We find that topological transport can be controlled by geometrically reducing symmetries, enabling processes absent from flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Chau Dao , Ji Zou , Eric Kleinherbers , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Temporal metamaterials have been recently exploited as a novel platform for conceiving several electromagnetic and optical devices based on the anomalous scattering response arising at a single or multiple sudden changes of the material…

Time-dependent perturbations can drive a trivial two-dimensional band insulator into a quantum Hall-like phase, with protected nonequilibrium states bound to its edges. We propose an experiment to probe the existence of these topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Jan P. Dahlhaus , Joel E. Moore

While energy band topology in spatial photonic crystals (PCs) and momentum-band topology in temporal crystals have each served as powerful probes of topological phases in their respective domains, their unification in a static platform…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Zimeng Zeng , Zhuoyang Li , Jiayao Liu , Zelong He , Zhaona Wang

Topological metamaterials unlock confined and robust elastic wave control in mechanical structures. Recent breakthroughs have precipitated the development of 3D topological mechanical metamaterials, which extend beyond the conventional 1D…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Patrick Dorin , Mustafa Khan , K. W. Wang

Certain topological systems with time-varying Hamiltonian enable quantized and disorder-robust transport of excitations. Here, we introduce the modification of the celebrated Thouless pump when the on-site energies remain fixed, while the…

Topological insulators (TIs) are quantum materials combining insulating bulk properties with conductive surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry. Their unique electromagnetic behavior originates from the topological…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-19 Sebastián Filipini

From optics to hydrodynamics, shock and rogue waves are widespread. Although they appear as distinct phenomena, new theories state that transitions between extreme waves are allowed. However, these have never been experimentally observed…

Topological acoustic and elastic waves have recently emerged as an exciting interdisciplinary field which is still mainly focused on low-dimensional structures and model systems. Here we demonstrate numerically an elastic-wave analogue of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Zhan Xiong , Hai-Xiao Wang , Jinjie Shi , Jie Luo , Yun Lai , Ming-Hui Lu , Jian-Hua Jiang

The control of light by light is one of the main aims in modern photonics. In this context, a fundamental cornerstone is the realization of light-written waveguides in real time, resulting in all-optical reconfigurability of communication…

Using time as an additional design parameter in electromagnetism, photonics, and wave physics is attracting considerable research interest, motivated by the possibility to explore physical phenomena and engineering opportunities beyond the…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-12 Matteo Ciabattoni , Zeki Hayran , Francesco Monticone

Time-varying guiding structures introduce an additional degree of freedom, besides spatial-variation, that enables better control over the guided wave in a device. Periodically time-modulated structures which are usually considered enable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Yakir Hadad , Amir Shlivinski

Stochastic Spatio-Temporal processes are prevalent across domains ranging from modeling of plasma to the turbulence in fluids to the wave function of quantum systems. This letter studies a measure-theoretic description of such systems by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 George I. Boutselis , Ethan N. Evans , Marcus A. Pereira , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We present a class of mechanical lattices based on elliptical gears with quasiperiodic modulation and geometric nonlinearity, capable of exhibiting topologically protected modes and amplitude-driven transitions. Starting from a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Shuaifeng Li , Di Zhou , Feng Li , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Jinkyu Yang

A pulse of matter waves may dramatically change its shape when traversing an absorbing barrier with time-dependent transparency. Here we show that this effect can be utilized for controlled manipulation of spatially-localized quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-04 Arseni Goussev

Directed transport is a characteristic feature of numerous biological systems in response to signals such as nutrient and chemical gradients. These signals often depend on time owing to the high complexity of interactions in these systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-04 Bhavesh Valecha , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

An incident wave at a temporal interface, created by an abrupt change in system parameters, generates time-refracted and time-reflected waves. We find topological characteristics associated with the temporal interface that separates…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-25 Huisheng Xu , Zhaohui Dong , Luqi Yuan , Liang Jin