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Topological metamaterials have robust properties engineered from their macroscopic arrangement, rather than their microscopic constituency. They can be designed by starting from Dirac metamaterials with either symmetry-enforced or…

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Metamaterials serve as versatile platforms for demonstrating condensed matter physics and non-equilibrium phenomena, with electrical circuits emerging as a particularly compelling medium. This review highlights recent advances in the…

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The advent of novel nonlinear materials has stirred unprecedented interest in exploring the use of temporal inhomogeneities to achieve novel forms of wave control, amidst the greater vision of engineering metamaterials across both space and…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-24 Emanuele Galiffi , Shixiong Yin , Andrea Alù

Spatio-temporal patterns emerging from an initial quiescent, uniform state is a phenomenon observed in many dynamical systems sustained far from thermodynamic equilibrium, the practical application of which has only recently begun to be…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-05 Vinod Ramakrishnan , Michael J. Frazier

We present a framework for analyzing collections of interacting hysterons through the lens of catastrophe theory. By modeling hysteron dynamics as a gradient system, we show how to construct hysteron transition graphs by characterizing the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-12 Gentian Muhaxheri , Victoria Antonetti , Christian D. Santangelo

We study theoretically and experimentally a novel type of metamaterial with hybrid elements composed of twisted pairs of cross-shaped meta-atoms and their complements. We reveal that such two-layer metasurfaces demonstrate large,…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Kirsty Hannam , David A. Powell , Ilya V. Shadrivov , Yuri S. Kivshar

Mechanical metamaterials with complex microstructures have superior physical properties such as graded stiffness, negative Poisson's ratio, and advantage in energy absorption. In recent years, origami provide many inspirations in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-18 Yunfang Yang , Zhong You

We will report on the electromagnetic response due to induced dipolar currents in metamaterials of 2-dimensional array of metallic elements. Used as frequency selectors, the metamaterial transmittance presents a single resonance in the…

Optics · Physics 2009-08-04 C. Rizza , E. Palange , P. Carelli , M. Ortolani , O. Limaj , A. Nucara , S. Lupi

An ensemble of resonators arranged on a sub-wavelength scale is usually considered as a bulk effective medium, known as a metamaterial, and can offer unusual macroscopic properties. Here, we take a different approach and limit ourselves to…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-09 S. Metais , G. Lerosey , F. Lemoult

We characterize the behaviour of split ring resonators made up of high-transition temperature YBCO superconductor using terahertz time domain spectroscopy. The superconductor metamaterial shows sharp change in the transmission spectrum at…

Recent progress in understanding the topological properties of condensed matter has led to the discovery of time-reversal invariant topological insulators. Because of limitations imposed by nature, topologically non-trivial electronic order…

We present a monolithic mechanical metamaterial comprising a periodic arrangement of snapping units with tunable tensile behavior. Under tension, the metamaterial undergoes a large extension caused by sequential snap-through instabilities,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-20 Ahmad Rafsanjani , Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh , Damiano Pasini

The toroidal response is numerically investigated in a multifold double-ring metamaterials at the antibonding magnetic-dipole mode (i.e., antiparallel magnetic dipoles in one double-ring fold). This intriguing toroidal resonance in…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-27 Zheng-Gao Dong , Peigen Ni , Jie Zhu , Xiaobo Yin , X. Zhang

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

A concept of a planar modular mechanical metamaterial inspired by the nature's principle of local adaptivity is proposed. The metamaterial consists of identical pieces similar to jigsaw puzzle tiles. Their rotation within assembly provides…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-12 V. Nežerka , M. Somr , T. Janda , J. Vorel , M. Doškář , J. Antoš , J. Zeman , J. Novák

We explore the hybridization of fundamental material resonances with the artificial resonances of metamaterials. A hybrid structure is presented in the waveguide environment that consists of a resonant magnetic material with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-28 Jonah N. Gollub , David R. Smith , Juan D. Baena

Structuring optical materials on a nanometer scale can lead to artificial effective media, or metamaterials, with strongly altered optical behavior. Metamaterials can provide a wide range of linear optical properties such as negative…

Hysterons are elementary units of hysteresis that underlie many complex behaviors of non-equilibrium matter. Because models of interacting hysterons can describe disordered matter, this suggests that artificial systems could respond to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-07 Joseph D. Paulsen

Anisotropic acoustic metamaterials have been proved very useful for their high potential in guiding and manipulating sound energy. In this paper, we further develop the idea by using periodically layered structures for transformational…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Zixian Liang , Jensen Li

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