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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23574-2
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- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11802017]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [EXC-2082/1-390761711]
- Carl-Zeiss Foundation
- State of Baden-Wurttemberg
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Helmholtz program Materials Systems Engineering (MSE)
- EIPHI Graduate School [ANR-17-EURE-0002]
- KIT-Publication Fund of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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The authors introduce beyond-nearest-neighbour interactions as a mechanism for molding the flow of waves in acoustic metamaterials. They find that for strong third-nearest-neighbour interactions, this mechanism allows for engineering roton-like acoustical dispersion relations under ambient conditions.
Roton dispersion relations have been restricted to correlated quantum systems at low temperatures, such as liquid Helium-4, thin films of Helium-3, and Bose-Einstein condensates. This unusual kind of dispersion relation provides broadband acoustical backward waves, connected to energy flow vortices due to a return flow, in the words of Feynman, and three different coexisting acoustical modes with the same polarization at one frequency. By building mechanisms into the unit cells of artificial materials, metamaterials allow for molding the flow of waves. So far, researchers have exploited mechanisms based on various types of local resonances, Bragg resonances, spatial and temporal symmetry breaking, topology, and nonlinearities. Here, we introduce beyond-nearest-neighbor interactions as a mechanism in elastic and airborne acoustical metamaterials. For a third-nearest-neighbor interaction that is sufficiently strong compared to the nearest-neighbor interaction, this mechanism allows us to engineer roton-like acoustical dispersion relations under ambient conditions. Here, the authors introduce beyond-nearest-neighbour interactions as a mechanism for molding the flow of waves in acoustic metamaterials. They find that for strong third-nearest-neighbour interactions, this mechanism allows for engineering roton-like acoustical dispersion relations under ambient conditions.
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