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In this work we propose a novel relationship between topology and damage propagation in Maxwell lattices that redefines fracture as a functional design feature rather than mere degradation. We demonstrate that topologically protected modes,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-31 Leo de Waal , Matthaios Chouzouris , Marcelo A. Dias

In recent years, wave-based analog computing has been at the center of attention for providing ultra-fast and power-efficient signal processing enabled by wave propagation through artificially engineered structures. Building on these…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Vahid Nikkhah , Mario Junior Mencagli , Nader Engheta

A new approach for generating stress-constrained topological designs in continua is presented. The main novelty is in the use of elasto-plastic modeling and in optimizing the design such that it will exhibit a linear-elastic response. This…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Oded Amir

Wave-based analog signal processing holds the promise of extremely fast, on-the-fly, power-efficient data processing, occurring as a wave propagates through an artificially engineered medium. Yet, due to the fundamentally weak…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Ali Momeni , Romain Fleury

Nonlinear waves have played a historical role in laying the foundations of the science of complexity. Recently, they have also allowed the development of a new reservoir computing paradigm: neuromorphic computing by waves. In these systems,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Giulia Marcucci , Piergiorgio Caramazza , Shamit Shrivastava

Recently, we witnessed a tremendous effort to conquer the realm of acoustics as a possible playground to test with sound waves topologically protected wave propagation. Acoustics differ substantially from photonic and electronic systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Xiujuan Zhang , Meng Xiao , Ying Cheng , Ming-Hui Lu , Johan Christensen

Topological phenomena typically govern the behavior of delocalized waves, giving rise to robust transport in electronic, photonic, and mechanical systems. Whether similar principles can directly control the motion of a localized particle,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-13 Ethan Andersson , Valeri Frumkin

Pipelining is a design technique for logical circuits that allows for higher throughput than circuits in which multiple computations are fed through the system one after the other. It allows for much faster computation than architectures in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Ian Seet , Thomas E. Ouldridge , Jonathan P. K. Doye

The ability to perform mathematical computations using metastructures is an emergent paradigm that carries the potential of wave-based analog computing to the realm of near-speed-of-light, low-loss, compact devices. We theoretically…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Dimitrios C. Tzarouchis , Brian Edwards , Nader Engheta

This paper describes a robust linear time-invariant output-feedback control strategy to reduce turbulent fluctuations, and therefore skin-friction drag, in wall-bounded turbulent fluid flows, that nonetheless gives performance guarantees in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-25 Peter H. Heins , Bryn Ll. Jones , Ati S. Sharma

In this research, multi-physics topology optimization is employed to achieve the detailed design of a lightweight porous linear actuation mechanism that harnesses energy through laser activation. A multiscale topology optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Musaddiq Al Ali , Masatoshi Shimoda

Bistable mechanical systems exhibit two stable configurations where the elastic energy is locally minimized. To realize such systems, origami techniques have been proposed as a versatile platform to design deployable structures with both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Luca Boisneault , Charles Audet , David Melancon

Constellation shaping is a practical and effective technique to improve the performance and the rate adaptivity of optical communication systems. In principle, it could also be used to mitigate the impact of nonlinear effects, possibly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Marco Secondini , Stella Civelli , Enrico Forestieri , Lareb Zar Khan

Mechanical metamaterials can be designed to exhibit unique mechanical properties, including tunable auxetic behavior as well as multi-stability, which arise from the geometry and configuration of the constituent building blocks.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-22 Jochem G. Meijer , Faadil Shaik , Heinrich M. Jaeger

Performing computational tasks with wave-based devices is becoming a groundbreaking paradigm that can open new opportunities for the next generation of efficient analogue and digital computing systems. Decision-making processes for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Ross Glyn MacDonald , Alex Yakovlev , Victor Pacheco-Peña

Now a day reversible logic is an attractive research area due to its low power consumption in the area of VLSI circuit design. The reversible logic gate is utilized to optimize power consumption by a feature of retrieving input logic from…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Neeraj Kumar Misra , Mukesh Kumar Kushwaha , Subodh Wairya , Amit Kumar

We consider a discrete-time model of continuous-time distributed optimization over dynamic directed-graphs (digraphs) with applications to distributed learning. Our optimization algorithm works over general strongly connected dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Wei Jiang , Muwahida Liaquat , Alireza Aghasi , Houman Zarrabi

Plasticity is inherent to many engineering materials such as metals. While it can degrade the load-carrying capacity of structures via material yielding, it can also protect structures through plastic energy dissipation. To fully harness…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yingqi Jia , Xiaojia Shelly Zhang

This paper investigates the optimal co-design of logical and continuous controls for switched linear systems governed by controlled logical switching dynamics. Unlike traditional switched systems with arbitrary or state-dependent switching,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Xiao Zhang , Min Meng , Changxi Li , Ka-Fai Cedric Yiu

Despite topology optimization producing high-performance structures, late-stage localized revisions remain brittle: direct density-space edits (e.g., warping pixels, inserting holes, swapping infill) can sever load paths and sharply degrade…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hongrui Chen , Josephine V. Carstensen , Faez Ahmed