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This note analytically investigates non-reciprocal wave dispersion in locally resonant acoustic metamaterials. Dispersion relations associated with space-time varying modulations of inertial and stiffness parameters of the base material and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 M. A. Attarzadeh , H. Al Ba'ba'a , M. Nouh

A novel approach to improving the performances of confocal scanning imaging is proposed. We experimentally demonstrate its feasibility using acoustic waves. It relies on a new way to encode spatial information using the temporal dimension.…

Scattering at interluminal modulation interfaces, where a sharp space-time perturbation moves at a velocity lying between the wave velocities of the two surrounding media, has remained an open problem for decades. This regime is somewhat…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Zhiyu Li , Klaas De Kinder , Xikui Ma , Christophe Caloz

Time-frequency scattering is a mathematical transformation of sound waves. Its core purpose is to mimick the way the human auditory system extracts information from its environment. In the context of improving the artificial intelligence of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Vincent Lostanlen

A simple and general formalism for mode coupling by a spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal perturbation in dispersive materials is developed. This formalism can be used for studying various linear and non-linear optical interactions…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Brenda Dana , Lilya Lobachinsky , Alon Bahabad

Sound waves are attenuated as they propagate in amorphous materials. We investigate the mechanism driving sound attenuation in the Rayleigh scattering regime by resolving the dynamics of an excited phonon in time and space via numerical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-18 Shivam Mahajan , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Space-time modulation of refractive index can produce synthetically moving interfaces with arbitrary apparent velocities, including superluminal motion, offering new ways to control light in dynamic media. On the other hand, space-time wave…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Zeki Hayran , John B. Pendry

Metamaterials and metasurfaces are designed by periodically arranged subwavelength geometries, allowing a tailored manipulation of the electromagnetic response of matter. Here, we exploit temporal variations of permittivity inside…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

The theory of acoustic wave scattering by many small bodies is developed for bodies with impedance boundary condition. It is shown that if one embeds many small particles in a bounded domain, filled with a known material, then one can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Ramm

Wave is crucial to acquiring information from the world and its interaction with matter is determined by the wavelength, or frequency. Search for the ability to shift frequency often points to material nonlinearity, which is significant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Yumin Zhang , Keming Wu , Chunqi Wang , Lixi Huang

The engineering of the optical properties of materials in space and time is opening further directions and possibilities to control wave propagation in four dimensions (x,y,z,t). A key example of such modulations are time interfaces where…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-14 Andrew M. Naylor , Victor Pacheco-Peña

We investigate the vorticity dynamics in a turbulent vortex using scattering of acoustic waves. Two ultrasonic beams are adjusted to probe simultaneously two spatial scales in a given volume of the flow, thus allowing a dual channel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Labbé , C. Baudet , G. Bustamante

A time interface (a rapid change of the constitutive parameters of a material in time), applied within an unbounded medium where a wave travels, can enable frequency conversion, and is considered the temporal analogue of a spatial interface…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Mathias Fink , Nader Engheta

In lossless acoustic systems, mode transitions are always time-reversible, consistent with Lorentz reciprocity, giving rise to symmetric sound manipulation in space-time. To overcome this fundamental limitation and break space-time…

This paper addresses the problem of wave scattering at a moving interface formed by a space-time modulation step. Specifically, it derives, using the technique of frame hopping with Lorentz transformation, the formula for the corresponding…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Zhiyu Li , Xikui Ma , Christophe Caloz

The recent identification of a modulation of acoustic waves that is driven by spatial velocity gradients, using acoustic black and white hole analogues [Schenke et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 154 (2023), 781-791], has shed new light on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-06 Fabian Denner

Acoustic wave propagation in liquid media containing many parallel air-filled cylinders is considered. A self-consistent method is used to compute rigorously the propagation, incorporating all orders of multiple scattering. It is shown that…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Emile Hoskinson , Zhen Ye

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating slab (between two parallel planes) in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Adel Messaoudi , Régis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

Causality creates an asymmetry between space and time, even though the wave equation treats them on equal footing. In this work, we leverage this asymmetry to construct a cross-mapping between space and time. This cross-mapping is applied…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-09 Mohamed A. Salem , Christophe Caloz

Spatial inhomogeneity, temporal modulation, and engineered anisotropy of parameters of electromagnetic media offer numerous opportunities for manipulating light-matter interaction over the past decades. Here, we investigate a scenario in…