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Toroidal modes enable high-Q resonances, but electric toroidal excitations remain unexplored compared to magnetic ones. This work establishes electric-magnetic toroidal duality in a hexagonal metasurface. Using finite element simulations,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-26 Oleksiy Breslavets , Yuri Savin , Zoya Eremenko

Hopfions, as three-dimensional topologically nontrivial structures described by poloidal and toroidal winding numbers, hold promise as robust information carriers in spintronics, functional materials, and optical communications. Although…

We associate a musical instrument, a "hyperbolic marimba", to every pair $(X,\Gamma)$ where $X$ is a hyperbolic surface and $\Gamma\subset X$ a simple multicurve labeled with musical keys. It works as follows: take a geodesic and every time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Ludovico Battista , Juan Souto

We consider the presence of oscillations in the primordial bispectrum, inspired by three different cosmological models; features in the primordial potential, resonant type non-Gaussianities and deviation from the standard Bunch Davies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-03 P. Daniel Meerburg

We study topological string theory on elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds using mirror symmetry. We compute higher genus topological string amplitudes and express these in terms of polynomials of functions constructed from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-24 Murad Alim , Emanuel Scheidegger

Third-harmonic generation (THG) is a key nonlinear optical process for ultrafast imaging, terahertz (THz) signal generation, and symmetry-sensitive probes, often dominating in centrosymmetric materials where lower-order responses vanish.…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 Sanjay Sarkar , Debottam Mandal , Amit Agarwal

Infinite presentations are given for all of the higher Torelli groups of once-punctured surfaces. In the case of the classical Torelli group, a finite presentation of the corresponding groupoid is also given, and finite presentations of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Morita , R. C. Penner

This study investigates the topological behavior of a continuous elastic phononic structure characterized by a 3-term Kekul\'e distortion. The elastic waveguide consists of a hexagonal unit cell whose geometric dimensions are intentionally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Ting-Wei Liu , Fabio Semperlotti

Gyroscopic metamaterials --- mechanical structures composed of interacting spinning tops --- have recently been found to support one-way topological edge excitations. In these structures, the time reversal symmetry breaking that enables…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Noah P. Mitchell , Lisa M. Nash , William T. M. Irvine

We study a simple magnetic system composed of periodically modulated magnetic dipoles with an easy axis. Upon adjusting the modulation amplitude alone, chains and two-dimensional stacked chains exhibit a rich magnon spectrum where frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Paula Mellado

We construct a moduli space for Riemann surfaces that is universal in the sense that it represents compact Riemann surfaces of any finite genus. This moduli space is stratifed according to genus, and it carries a metric and a measure that…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Lizhen Ji , Juergen Jost

Time-variant systems have recently garnered considerable attention due to their unique potentials in manipulating electromagnetic waves. Here, a novel class of topological spacetime crystals is introduced, with a traveling-wave modulation…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

We study generating functions of moduli-space integrals at genus one that are expected to form a basis for massless $n$-point one-loop amplitudes of open superstrings and open bosonic strings. These integrals are shown to satisfy the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

Magnetic hopfions are non-collinear spin textures that are characterized by an integer topological invariant, called Hopf index. The three-dimensional magnetic solitons can be thought of as a tube with a twisted magnetization that has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Börge Göbel , Samir Lounis

It is well known that an interface created by two topologically distinct structures could host nontrivial edge states that are immune to defects. In this letter, we introduce a one-dimensional space-time phononic crystal and study the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Mourad Oudich , Yuanchen Deng , Molei Tao , Yun Jing

Topological metamaterials exhibit unusual behaviors at their boundaries, such as unidirectional chiral waves, that are protected by a topological feature of their band structure. The ability to tune such a material through a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Noah P. Mitchell , Lisa M. Nash , William T. M. Irvine

A periodic tridiagonal matrix is a tridiagonal matrix with additional two entries at the corners. We study the space $X_{n,\lambda}$ of Hermitian periodic tridiagonal $n\times n$-matrices with a fixed simple spectrum $\lambda$. Using the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Anton Ayzenberg

An overview is given of the construction of a differential polynomial ring of functions on the moduli space of Calabi-Yau threefolds. These rings coincide with the rings of quasi modular forms for geometries with duality groups for which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-23 Murad Alim

Mechanical metamaterials are increasingly attracting interest in engineering applications due to their unique mechanical properties and lightweight nature. This study develops a novel sound-based representation to characterize the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-12 Sofia Cassara , Buminhan Sansa , Saltuk Yildiz , Waris Khan , Pinar Acar

We investigate the effect of small spatiotemporal modulations in subwavelength-dimensioned phononic crystals with large band gaps, on the frequency spectrum for elastic waves polarized in the plane of periodicity. When the radius of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 D. Psiachos , M. M. Sigalas