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The controlled rotation of solid particles trapped in a liquid by an ultrasonic vortex beam is observed. Single polystyrene beads, or clusters, can be trapped against gravity while simultaneously rotated. The induced rotation of a single…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-22 Diego Baresch , Régis Marchiano , Jean-Louis Thomas

Topological quasiparticles, such as merons and bimerons, are characterized by non-trivial textures that exhibit remarkably robust transport against deformation, offering significant potential for information processing. While these…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-10 Huaijin Ma , Te Liu , Jiachen Sheng , Kaiyan Cao , Jinpeng Yang , Jian Wang

In this work we developed a new problem solution methodology of contact interaction of acoustic medium with resilient finite bodies of cylindrical form, based on application of boundary integral equations method in conjunction with series…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Demchuk , B. J. Datsko , A. N. Ponomaryov

We present a novel approach for simulating acoustic (pressure) wave propagation across different media separated by a diffuse interface through the use of a weak compressibility formulation. Our method builds on our previous work on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Abbas Ballout , Oscar A. Marino , Gerasimos Ntoukas , Gonzalo Rubio , Esteban Ferrer

The diffusion of micro- and nanoswimmers in a fluid, confined within irregular structures that impose entropic barriers, is often modeled using overdamped active Brownian dynamics, where viscous effects are paramount and inertia is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-03 Narender Khatri , Vikas Sharma , Anton F. Burnet , Suneet Kumar Awasthi

A rigid spherical particle in an acoustic wave field oscillates at the wave period but has also a mean motion on a longer time scale. The dynamics of this mean motion is crucial for numerous applications of acoustic microfluidics, including…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jin-Han Xie , Jacques Vanneste

Acousto-electric charge conveyance induced by a surface acoustic wave is employed to dissociate photogenerated excitons. Over macroscopic distances, both electrons and holes are injected \emph{sequentially} into a remotely positioned,…

Acoustic bianisotropic materials couple pressure and local particle velocity fields to simultaneously excite monopole and dipole scattering, which results in asymmetric wave transmission and reflection of airborne sound. In this work, we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Steven R. Craig , Xiaoshi Su , Andrew N. Norris , Chengzhi Shi

We analytically analyse the motion of a nonrelativistic charged particle in a cylindrical single capillary. The effective potential for interaction of a charged particle with the inner surface of a capillary is derived as a sum of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 S. B. Dabagov , A. V. Dik

In condensed matter physics, a broad spectrum of physical characteristics, such as chirality, axiality, and polarity, arises as a direct consequence of the underlying symmetry of the system. We here theoretically investigate the effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-12 Satoru Hayami , Rikuto Oiwa , Akane Inda

Colloidal assembly represents a powerful method for the fabrication of functional materials. In this article, we describe how acoustic radiation forces can guide the assembly of colloidal particles into structures that serve as microscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-17 Mihai Caleap , Bruce Drinkwater

Topological pumping supplies a robust mechanism to steer waves across a sample without being affected by disorders and defects. For the first time, we demonstrate the pumping of elastic surface waves, achieved by a smart patterning of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Shaoyun Wang , Zhou Hu , Qian Wu , Hui Chen , Emil Prodan , Rui Zhu , Guoliang Huang

Actuating the acoustic resonance modes of a microfluidic device containing suspended particles (e.g., cells) allows for the manipulation of their individual positions. In this work, we investigate how the number of resonance modes $M$…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Guilherme Perticarari , Dongjun Wu , Thierry Baasch

Recently, the topological physics in artificial crystals for classical waves has become an emerging research area. In this Letter, we propose a unique bilayer design of sonic crystals that are constructed by two layers of coupled hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Jiuyang Lu , Chunyin Qiu , Weiyin Deng , Xueqin Huang , Feng Li , Fan Zhang , Shuqi Chen , Zhengyou Liu

We demonstrate through first-principles calculations applied to the K$_{3}$NiO$_{2}$ crystal that a structural phase transition from an achiral to a chiral phase can be mediated by a degenerate soft phonon mode and controlled by pressure…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-30 Mauro Fava , Emma McCabe , Aldo H. Romero , Eric Bousquet

We present a novel chiral sensing platform that combines a one-dimensional photonic crystal design with a birefringent surface defect. The platform sustains simultaneous transverse electric and transverse magnetic surface modes, which are…

Valleytronics is quickly emerging as an exciting field in fundamental and applied research. In this Letter, we study the acoustic version of valley states in sonic crystals and reveal a vortex nature of such states. Besides the selection…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Jiuyang Lu , Chunyin Qiu , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

Unlike classical bits that can only occupy one of two discrete states, quantum bits (qubits) can exist in arbitrary coherent superpositions of the ground and excited states. This fundamental distinction grants qubits enhanced capabilities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Xiao-Meng Zhang , Guang-Chen He , Zhao-Xian Chen , Ze-Guo Chen , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Circularly polarized phonons offer a new route for mediating angular momentum in solids. However, controlling phonon angular momentum without altering the material's structure or composition remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Fangliang Wu , Jing Zhou , Song Bao , Liangyue Li , Jinsheng Wen , Yuan Wan , Qi Zhang

This paper provides an application of our hybrid continuum-particle scheme to liquids by considering unsteady shear flows driven by wall oscillations in nano-slots. The particle region (P) adjacent to the wall, is described at the atomistic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Delgado-Buscalioni , E. G. Flekkoy , P. V. Coveney