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In this paper we introduce a generalized concept of field-transforming metamaterials, which perform field transformations defined as linear relations between the original and transformed fields. These artificial media change the fields in a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergei Tretyakov , Igor Nefedov , Pekka Alitalo

The generalisation of proper time, as an alternative to models with extra dimensions of space, has been proposed as the source of the elementary structures of matter. Direct connections with the Standard Model of particle physics together…

General Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 David J. Jackson

Mechanical metamaterials leverage geometric design to achieve unconventional properties, such as high strength at low density, efficient wave guiding, and complex shape morphing. The ability to control shape changes builds on the complex…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Krzysztof K. Dudek , Muamer Kadic , Corentin Coulais , Katia Bertoldi

Modeling deformable objects - especially continuum materials - in a way that is physically plausible, generalizable, and data-efficient remains challenging across 3D vision, graphics, and robotic manipulation. Many existing methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yunuo Chen , Yafei Hu , Lingfeng Sun , Tushar Kusnur , Laura Herlant , Chenfanfu Jiang

We extend effective medium theory (EMT) to time-modulated, frequency-dispersive acoustic metamaterials with multiple resonances. While previous studies focused on non-dispersive or single-resonance systems, advances in programmable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Xinghong Zhu , Hong-Wei Wu , Jensen Li

While in electromagnetism we have space-time symmetry, magnetoelectric (ME) processes are characterized by space-time symmetry breaking. Our goal is to show that quantum vacuum fields with both time reversal and space inversion symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 E. O. Kamenetskii

We study a class of temporal metamaterials characterized by time-varying dielectric permittivity waveforms of duration much smaller than the characteristic wave-dynamical timescale. In the analogy between spatial and temporal metamaterials,…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-13 Carlo Rizza , Giuseppe Castaldi , Vincenzo Galdi

Metamaterials are artificially created media, which allow introducing additional degrees of freedom into electromagnetic design by controlling constitutive material parameters. Reconfigurable time-dependent metamaterials can further enlarge…

Combining the power and possibilities of heterostructure engineering with the collective and emergent properties of quantum materials, quantum-matter heterostructures open a new arena of solid-state physics. Here we provide a review of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 Hans Boschker , Jochen Mannhart

Systems consisting of spheres rolling on elastic membranes have been used to introduce a core conceptual idea of General Relativity (GR): how curvature guides the movement of matter. However, such schemes cannot accurately represent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-12 Shengkai Li , Hussain N. Gynai , Steven Tarr , Emily Alicea-Muñoz , Pablo Laguna , Gongjie Li , Daniel I. Goldman

A modification of an embedded-atom method (EAM)-type potential is proposed for a quantitative description of equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of metal systems within the molecular-dynamics framework. The modification generalizes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Alexey Verkhovtsev , Andrei V. Korol , Gennady Sushko , Stefan Schramm , Andrey V. Solov'yov

A finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modelling of finite-size zero thickness space-time modulated Huygens' metasurfaces based on Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions (GSTCs), is proposed and numerically demonstrated. A typical…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-06 Scott A. Stewart , Tom J. Smy , Shulabh Gupta

The elasticity difference tensor, used in [1] to describe elasticity properties of a continuous medium filling a space-time, is here analysed from the point of view of the space-time connection. Principal directions associated with this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. G. L. R. Vaz , Irene Brito

This paper reviews some selected approaches to the description of transport properties, mainly electroconductivity, in crystalline and disordered metallic systems. A detailed qualitative theoretical formulation of the electron transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-27 A. L. Kuzemsky

We present a generalized FDTD scheme to simulate moving electromagnetic structures with arbitrary space-time configurations. This scheme is a local adaptation and 2+1-dimensional extension of the uniform and 1+1-dimensional scheme recently…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Amir Bahrami , Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger , Zhiyu Li , Christophe Caloz

We explore the possibility for the reconstruction of the generative physical models describing interactions between atomic units in solids from observational electron microscopy data. Here, scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-02 M. Chakraborty , M. Ziatdinov , O. Dyck , S. Jesse , A. D. White , S. V. Kalinin

Temporal metamaterials are artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties change over time. In analogy with spatial media and metamaterials, where their properties change smoothly or abruptly over space, temporal metamaterials can…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-06 Davide Ramaccia , Andrea Alu , Alessandro Toscano , Filiberto Bilotti

Mechanical meta-materials are solids whose geometric structure results in exotic nonlinear behaviors that are not typically achievable via homogeneous materials. We show how to drastically expand the design space of a class of mechanical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mehran Mirramezani , Anne S. Meeussen , Katia Bertoldi , Peter Orbanz , Ryan P. Adams

Metamaterials are artificially engineered periodic structures with exceptional optical properties that are not found in conventional materials. However, this definition of metamaterials can be extended if we introduce a quantum degree of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Solomon Uriri , Yaseera Ismail , Francesco Petruccione

The paper presents a metamaterial for ballistic electrons, which consists of a quantum barrier formed in a semiconductor with negative effective electron mass. This barrier is the analogue of a metamaterial for electromagnetic waves in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniela Dragoman , Mircea Dragoman