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Unidirectional nonreciprocal transport is at the heart of many fundamental problems and applications in both science and technology. Here we study the novel design of wave diode devices by engineering asymmetric shapes of nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Nianbei Li , Jie Ren

Unidirectional wave propagation has emerged as a key concept in the dynamics of non-reciprocal mechanical and acoustic metamaterials. This work investigates two fundamentally distinct strategies for achieving directional wave propagation in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 João H. S. Brandão , Danilo Braghini , José R. F. Arruda

Non-reciprocal systems have been shown to exhibit various interesting wave phenomena, such as the non-Hermitian skin effect, which causes accumulation of modes at boundaries. Recent research on discrete systems showed that this effect can…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Felix Langfeldt , Joe Tan , Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota

Nonreciprocal conversion is essential for protecting sources and enabling unidirectional signal routing in photonic, phononic, electronics, and quantum systems, yet conventional implementations rely on magnetic bias that could be…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Arya G. Pour , Jun Ji , Linbo Shao

We study scattering of a periodic wave in a string on two lumped oscillators attached to it. The equations can be represented as a driven (by the incident wave) dissipative (due to radiation losses) system of delay differential equations of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-30 Stefano Lepri , Arkady Pikovsky

Breaking reciprocity in the microwave frequency range will have important implications for modern electronic systems. Since it usually involves bulky biasing magnets or complex spatial-temporal modulations, exploring a lightweight,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Xiaozhen Yang , Erda Wen , Daniel F. Sievenpiper

Nonreciprocity, i.e. inequivalence in amplitudes and frequencies of spin waves propagating in opposite directions, is a key property underlying functionality in prospective magnonic devices. Here we demonstrate experimentally and…

Time modulation of the physical parameters offers interesting new possibilities for wave control. Examples include amplification of waves, harmonic generation and non-reciprocity, without resorting to non-linear mechanisms. Most of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Michaël Darche , Raphaël Assier , Sébastien Guenneau , Bruno Lombard , Marie Touboul

Passive and linear nonreciprocal networks at microwave frequencies hold great promises in enabling new front-end architectures for wireless communication systems. Their nonreciprocity has been achieved by disrupting the time-reversal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-03 Ruochen Lu , John Krol , Liuqing Gao , Songbin Gong

Breaking the reciprocity of wave propagation is a problem of fundamental interest, and a mucht-sought functionality in practical applications, both in photonics and phononics. Although it has been achieved using resonant linear scattering…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tiemo Pedergnana , Abel Faure-Beaulieu , Romain Fleury , Nicolas Noiray

In this paper, a new generation of magnet-free circulators with high performance is proposed. Circulators are crucial devices in modern communication systems due to their ability to enable full-duplexing and double the spectral efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Yao Yu , Giuseppe Michetti , Michele Pirro , Ahmed Kord , Dimitrios Sounas , Zhicheng Xiao , Cristian Cassella , Andrea Alu , Matteo Rinaldi

Recently, nonreciprocal phase shifters have attracted a surge of interest thanks to the advent of nonreciprocal electromagnetic systems, such as nonreciprocal metasurfaces, nonreciprocal-beam antennas, and invisibility cloaks. To overcome…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

Recent studies on spin-wave propagation in ferromagnetic waveguides has highlighted the role of nonreciprocity resulting from the chiral nature of dipolar interactions in curved elements. However, the impact of spin-wave mode type on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Uladzislau Makartsou , Mateusz Gołębiewski , Attila Kákay , Olena Tartakivska , Maciej Krawczyk

A one-dimensional wave propagation through elastically asymmetric media is investigated. A class of metamaterials possessing an arbitrary elastic asymmetry is proposed. This asymmetry results in different wave speeds of tensile and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-26 Vladislav A. Yastrebov

Nonreciprocal microwave devices, such as circulators, are useful in routing quantum signals in quantum networks and protecting quantum systems against noise coming from the detection chain. However, commercial, cryogenic circulators, now in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-22 Baleegh Abdo , Markus Brink , Jerry M. Chow

Nonreciprocity means that the transmission of a signal depends on its direction of propagation. Despite vastly different platforms and underlying working principles, the realisations of nonreciprocal transport in linear, time-independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Clara C. Wanjura , Jesse J. Slim , Javier del Pino , Matteo Brunelli , Ewold Verhagen , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Devices that achieve nonreciprocal microwave transmission are ubiquitous in radar and radio-frequency communication systems, and commonly rely on magnetically biased ferrite materials. Such devices are also indispensable in the readout…

We present a mechanism to generate unidirectional pulse-shaped propagating waves, tamed to exponential growth and dispersion, in active systems with nonreciprocal and nonlinear couplings. In particular, when all bulk modes are exponentially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Sayan Jana , Bertin Many Manda , Vassos Achilleos , Dimitrios J. Frantzeskakis , Lea Sirota

In this study, we investigate the phenomenon of mode conversion in elastic bulk waves using coupled hexapole resonances. A metamaterial slab is proposed enabling the complete conversion between longitudinal and transverse modes. Each unit…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Di Liu , Wenjie Yu , Qiujiao Du , Fengming Liu , Pai Peng

We propose a design to realize integrated broadband nonreciprocal microwave isolators and circulators using superconducting circuit elements without any magnetic materials. To obtain a broadband response, we develop a waveguide-based design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Dengke Zhang , Jaw-Shen Tsai