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Investigating dispersion surface morphology of sonic metamaterials is crucial in providing information on related phenomena as inertial coupling, acoustic transparency, polarisation, and absorption. In the present study, we look into…

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In this paper, we study topological phase transition in a wire medium operating at infrared frequencies. This transition occurs in the reciprocal space between the indefinite (open-surface) regime of the metamaterial to its dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 M. S. Mirmoosa , S. Yu. Kosulnikov , C. R. Simovski

Metamaterials and metasurfaces are designed by periodically arranged subwavelength geometries, allowing a tailored manipulation of the electromagnetic response of matter. Here, we exploit temporal variations of permittivity inside…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

Metamaterials are arrangement of basic building blocks that repeat in space, time, or both. These material systems serve as an excellent platform for controlling waves, such as engineering wavenumber band gaps, flat bands, and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Mohamed A. Elgamal , Osama R. Bilal

Topological transition of the iso-frequency contour (IFC) from a closed ellipsoid to an open hyperboloid, will provide unique capabilities for controlling the propagation of light. However, the ability to actively tune these effects remains…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-20 Zhiwei Guo , Haitao Jiang , Yong Sun , Yunhui Li , Hong Chen

The ideas of mathematical topology play an important role in many aspects of modern physics - from phase transitions to field theory to nonlinear dynamics (Nakahara M (2003) in Geometry, Topology and Physics, ed Brewer DF (IOP Publishing…

The topological properties of a material depend on its symmetries, parameters, and spatial dimension. Changes in these properties due to parameter and symmetry variations can be understood by computing the corresponding topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

Periodic structures are a type of metamaterial in which the physical properties depend not only on the details of the unit cell but also on how unit cells are arranged and interact with each other. In conventional engineering structures,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Sudesh Pathak , Gagan Dangi , Farhad Farzbod

Optical systems that respect Parity-Time (PT) symmetry can be realized with proper incorporation of gain/loss materials. However, due to the absence of magnetic response at optical frequencies, the wave impedance is defined entirely by…

Electromagnetic properties of periodic two-dimensional sub-wavelength structures consisting of closely-packed inclusions of materials with negative dielectric permittivity $\epsilon$ in a dielectric host with positive $\epsilon_h$ can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Gennady Shvets , Yaroslav Urzhumov

Effective medium theory is used to model a one dimensional lossy dielectric quaternary photonic crystal as a homogeneous slab. The unit cell of the original crystal is inversion symmetric with layer sequence ACBCA. The behavior of the…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-25 Nicholas J. Bianchi , Leonard M. Kahn

We analyze transmission of electromagnetic waves through a periodic band-gap structure consisting of slabs of a left-handed metamaterial and air. Using the effective parameters of the metamaterial derived from its microscopic structure, we…

Acoustic metamaterials, particularly the topological insulators, exhibit exceptional wave characteristics that have sparked considerable research interest. The study of imperfect interfaces affect is of significant importance for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-31 Tao Feng , Letian Gan , Shiheng Zhao , Zheng Chang , Siyang Li , Yaoting Xue , Xuxu Yang , Tuck-Whye Wong , Tiefeng Li , Weiqiu Chen

Topological mechanical metamaterials are artificial structures whose unusual properties are protected very much like their electronic and optical counterparts. Here, we present an experimental and theoretical study of an active metamaterial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-08 Lisa M. Nash , Dustin Kleckner , Alismari Read , Vincenzo Vitelli , Ari M. Turner , William T. M. Irvine

Transition waves in mechanical metamaterials manifest themselves as propagating interfaces between different stable states in lattices composed of arrays of coupled, intrinsically bistable elements. Here, we show experimentally and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Eleonore Duval , Giada Risso , Alex Zhang , Vincent Tournat , Katia Bertoldi

The tenfold classification provides a powerful framework for organizing topological phases of matter based on symmetry and spatial dimension. However, it does not offer a systematic method for transitioning between classes or engineering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Amit Goft , Eric Akkermans

The topological mechanics is a perfect tool that can bridge the gap between the quantum and Newtonian physics and mechanics of materials. It requires discrete models of the material with analogies with the topological characteristics of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Mohamed Shaat

Band structures of several metamaterials are described by generalized eigenvalue equations where complex bands emerge even if the involved matrices are Hermitian. In this paper, we provide a geometrical understanding of the real-complex…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-04 Takuma Isobe , Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Recently the possibility of achieving one-way backscatter immune transportation of light by mimicking the topological order present within certain solid state systems, such as topological insulators, has received much attention. Thus far…

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…