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Motivated by recent experiments, the theoretical study of wave propagation in time varying materials is of current interest. Although significant in nearly all such experiments, material dispersion is commonly neglected in theoretical…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Bryce Dixon , Calvin M. Hooper , Ian R. Hooper , Simon A. R. Horsley

We experimentally demonstrate temporal pumping of elastic waves in an electromechanical waveguide. An aluminum beam covered by an array of piezoelectric patches connected to shunt circuits with controllable resistances enables the spatial…

The mechanics of lower dimensional elastic structures depends strongly on the geometry of their stress-free state. Elastic deformations separate into in-plane stretching and lower energy out-of-plane bending deformations. For elastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-20 Jonathan Kernes , Alex J. Levine

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

In contrast to the traditional elastodynamic equations, a more comprehensive formulation of one dimensional (1D) elastodynamic equations is given for inhomogeneous media by using the coordinate transformation method. These modified…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Ruiwen Yao , Zhihai Xiang

Time-varying media, characterized by dynamic or spacetime-modulated constitutive parameters such as permittivity and permeability, have recently emerged as a transformative paradigm for advanced wave control, transcending the constraints…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-20 Youxiu Yu , Hao Hu , Qianru Yang , Linyang Zou , Dongjue Liu , Hao Chi Zhang , Yu Luo

It is well known in metamaterials that local resonance and hybridization phenomena dramatically influence the shape of dispersion curves; the metasurface created by a cluster of resonators, subwavelength rods, atop an elastic surface being…

Elastic material with its elastic tensor losing minor symmetry is considered impossible without introducing artificially body torque. Here we demonstrate the feasibility of such material by introducing rotational resonance, the amplified…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Hongkuan Zhang , Yi Chen , Xiaoning Liu , Gengkai Hu

Understanding how evanescent modes mediate energy transfer in tapered elastic waveguides is of paramount interest, as it unlocks new strategies for wave control and manipulation. Evanescent modes play a crucial role in energy localization…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Alexandre Yoshitaka Charau , Jérôme Laurent , Tony Valier-Brasier

We propose a scheme to realize lattice potentials of sub-wavelength spacing for ultracold atoms. It is based on spin-dependent optical lattices with a time-periodic modulation. We show that the atomic motion is well described by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-07 Sylvain Nascimbene , Nathan Goldman , Nigel R. Cooper , Jean Dalibard

We describe how to control the motion -- both speed and propagation direction -- of a nonlinear traveling wave in real time via soliton management with time-varying dispersion/diffusion and loss/gain terms. When carried out subject to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-07-11 Robert A. Van Gorder

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

Although metamaterials have been widely used for controlling elastic waves through bandgap engineering, the directed guidance of stress waves in non-periodic structures has remained a challenge. This work demonstrates that spatially graded…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Charles Dorn , Dennis M. Kochmann

The motive of this work is to understand the complex spatial characteristics of finite-amplitude elastic wave propagation in periodic structures and leverage the unique opportunities offered by nonlinearity to activate complementary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-06-27 R. Ganesh , Stefano Gonella

We combine two different fields, topological physics and graded metamaterials to design a topological metasurface to control and redirect elastic waves. We strategically design a two-dimensional crystalline perforated elastic plate, using a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Bogdan Ungureanu , Mehul P. Makwana , Richard V. Craster , Sebastien Guenneau

Flexible mechanical metamaterials are compliant structures engineered to achieve unique properties via the large deformation of their components. While their static character has been studied extensively, the study of their dynamic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Bolei Deng , Jordan R. Raney , Katia Bertoldi , Vincent Tournat

We design a two-dimensional ultra-thin elastic metasurface consisting of steel cores coated with elliptical rubbers embedded in epoxy matrix, capable of manipulating bulk elastic wave modes for reflected waves. The energy exchanges between…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Pai Peng , Cheng Feng , Kangcheng Zhou

The time-frequency integrals and the two-dimensional stationary phase method are applied to study the electromagnetic waves radiated by moving modulated sources in dispersive media. We show that such unified approach leads to explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Gennadiy Burlak , Vladimir Rabinovich

Wave reflection and refraction at a time interface follow different conservation laws compared to conventional scattering at a spatial interface. This study presents the experimental demonstration of refraction and reflection of flexural…

We present a spatio-temporal analysis of a statistically stationary rotating turbulence experiment, aiming to extract a signature of inertial waves, and to determine the scales and frequencies at which they can be detected. The analysis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 Antoine Campagne , Basile Gallet , Frédéric Moisy , Pierre-Philippe Cortet