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Liquids composed of self-propelled particles have been experimentally realized using molecular, colloidal, or macroscopic constituents. These active liquids can flow spontaneously even in the absence of an external drive. Unlike spontaneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-15 Anton Souslov , Benjamin C. van Zuiden , Denis Bartolo , Vincenzo Vitelli

Metasurfaces are arrays of subwavelength meta-atoms that shape waves in a compact and planar form factor. Analysis and design of metasurfaces require methods for modeling their interactions with waves. Conventional modeling techniques…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-17 Mahsa Torfeh , Amir Arbabi

The transport of heat mediated by thermal photons in hyperbolic multilayer metamaterials is studied using the fluctuational electrodynamics theory. We demonstrate that in comparison to bulk materials the flux inside layered hyperbolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 Maria Tschikin , Svend-Age Biehs , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Slawa Lang , Alexander Petrov , Manfred Eich

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) represent a novel approach to programmable and affordable electromagnetic wave manipulation for enhanced wireless communications, sensing, and imaging applications. Nevertheless, current DMA designs and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Abdul Jabbar , Aakash Bansal , William Whittow

We propose to use a recently introduced Totimorphic metamaterial for constructing morphable space structures. As a first step to investigate the feasibility of this concept, we present a method for morphing such structures autonomously…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-31 Amy Thomas , Jai Grover , Dario Izzo , Dominik Dold

We present a consistent theoretical approach for calculating effective nonlinear susceptibilities of metamaterials taking into account both frequency and spatial dispersion. Employing the discrete dipole model, we demonstrate that effects…

The conception of new metamaterials showing unorthodox behaviors with respect to elastic wavepropagation has become possible in recent years thanks to powerful dynamical homogenization techniques. Such methods effectively allow to describe…

Metasurfaces, a two-dimensional (2D) form of metamaterials constituted by planar meta-atoms, exhibit exotic abilities to freely tailor electromagnetic (EM) waves. Over the past decade, tunable metasurfaces have come to the frontier in the…

Metal-dielectric multilayer metamaterials with extreme loss-anisotropy, in which the longitudinal component of the permittivity tensor has ultra-large imaginary part, are proposed and designed. Diffraction-free deep subwavelength beam…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yingran He , Lei Sun , Sailing He , Xiaodong Yang

We consider the rate of transition for a particle between two metastable states coupled to a thermal environment for various magnitudes of the coupling strength, using the recently proposed infrequent metadynamics approach (Tiwary and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-04 Pratyush Tiwary , B. J. Berne

Metasurfaces consisting of electrically thin and densely packed planar arrays of subwavelength elements enable an unprecedented control of the impinging electromagnetic fields. Spatially modulated metasurfaces can efficiently tailor the…

Metamaterials based on mechanical elements have been developed over the past decade as a powerful platform for exploring analogs of electron transport in exotic regimes that are hard to produce in real materials. In addition to enabling new…

Topological phase transitions, characterized by the closing and reopening of band gaps and a concomitant change in topological invariants, have played a central role in topological physics. However, such transitions have so far been…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-19 Zebin Zhu , Bolun Huang , Siqi Xu , Jingming Chen , Yan Meng , Zhenxiao Zhu , Xiang Xi , Zhen Gao

Manipulating the property of iso-frequency contour (IFC) will provide a powerful control for the interaction between light and matter. Importantly, hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs), a class of artificial anisotropic materials with hyperbolic…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-14 Zhiwei Guo , Haitao Jiang , Hong Chen

Purpose: To propose a domain-conditioned and temporal-guided diffusion modeling method, termed dynamic Diffusion Modeling (dDiMo), for accelerated dynamic MRI reconstruction, enabling diffusion process to characterize spatiotemporal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Liping Zhang , Iris Yuwen Zhou , Sydney B. Montesi , Li Feng , Fang Liu

Spatiotemporal structured light has opened up new avenues for optics and photonics. Current spatiotemporal manipulation of light mostly relies on phase-only devices such as liquid crystal spatial light modulator to generate spatiotemporal…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-24 Qian Cao , Nianjia Zhang , Andy Chong , Qiwen Zhan

Synthetic dimensions alter one of the most fundamental properties in nature, the dimension of space. They allow, for example, a real three-dimensional system to act as effectively four-dimensional. Driven by such possibilities, synthetic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-01 Bhuvanesh Sundar , Bryce Gadway , Kaden R. A. Hazzard

With the explosion of wireless networks and automotive radar systems, there is an acute need for new materials and technologies that would not only minimize the size of these devices, but also enhance their performances. The technique of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-14 Tichit Paul-Henri , Shah Nawaz Burokur , Dylan Germain , Andre de Lustrac

Here, we present an overview of a first principles homogenization theory of periodic metamaterials. It is shown that in a rather general context it is possible to formally introduce effective parameters that describe the time evolution of…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-18 Sylvain Lannebère , Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

Optical space in metamaterials may be engineered to mimic the landscape of a multidimensional Universe which has regions of different topology and different effective dimensionality. The "metamaterial landscape" may include regions in which…

Optics · Physics 2011-04-07 Igor I. Smolyaninov