• openAccess   Mechanical Analogue of a Majorana Bound State 

      Chen, Chun‐Wei; Lera, Natalia; Chaunsali, Rajesh; Torrent, Daniel; Álvarez, J. V.; Yang, Jinkyu; San‐José, Pablo; Christensen, Johan Wiley (2019)
      The discovery of topologically nontrivial electronic systems has opened a new age in condensed matter research. From topological insulators to topological superconductors and Weyl semimetals, it is now understood that some ...
    • openAccess   Metaclusters for the Full Control of Mechanical Waves 

      Packo, Pawel; Norris, Andrew N.; Torrent, Daniel American Physical Society (2021)
      We present a new method for the control of waves based on inverse multiple scattering theory. Conceived as a generalization of the concept of metagrating, we call metaclusters to a finite set of scatterers whose position ...
    • openAccess   Multiple scattering theory of non-Hermitian sonic second-order topological insulators 

      Rosendo López, María; Zhang, Zhiwang; Torrent, Daniel; Christensen, Johan (2019-10-25)
      Topological phases of sound enable unconventional confinement of acoustic energy at the corners in higher-order topological insulators. These unique states which go beyond the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence have ...
    • closedAccess   Non-locality of the Willis coupling in fluid laminates 

      Malléjac, Matthieu; Cavalieri, Théo; Romero-García, Vicent; Merkel, Aurélien; Torrent, Daniel; Christensen, Johan; Li, Jensen; Groby, Jean-Philippe Elsevier B.V. (2022-02-04)
      The closed form expressions of the effective properties in periodic fluid laminates are derived thanks to the Padé approximation of the transfer matrix. A second-order Taylor expansion of the transfer matrix elements ...
    • openAccess   Nonreciprocal and even Willis couplings in periodic thermoacoustic amplifiers 

      Olivier, Côme; Poignand, Gaëlle; Malléjac, Matthieu; Romero-García, Vicent; PENELET, guillaume; Merkel, Aurélien; Torrent, Daniel; Li, Jensen; Christensen, Johan; Groby, Jean-Philippe American Physical Society (2021-11-10)
      hermoacoustic amplifiers are analyzed in the framework of nonreciprocal Willis coupling. The closed form expressions of the effective properties are derived, showing that an applied temperature gradient causes the appearance ...
    • openAccess   Nonreciprocal Thermal Material by Spatiotemporal Modulation 

      Torrent, Daniel; Poncelet, Olivier; Batsale, Jean-Chirstophe American Physical Society (2018)
      The thermal properties of a material with a spatiotemporal modulation, in the form of a traveling wave, in both the thermal conductivity and the specific heat capacity are studied. It is found that these materials behave ...
    • openAccess   Observation of two-dimensional acoustic bound states in the continuum 

      Martí-Sabaté, Marc; Li, Junfei; Djafari Rouhani, Bahram; Cummer, Steven; Torrent, Daniel Springer Nature (2024-04-09)
      The design of devices based on acoustic or optical fields requires the fabrication of cavities and structures capable of efficiently trapping these waves. A special type of cavity can be designed to support resonances with ...
    • openAccess   Optomechanical Coupling Optimization in Engineered Nanocavities 

      Edelstein, Shulamit; Gomis-Bresco, Jordi; Arregui, Guillermo; Koval, P.; Lanzillotti Kimura, Norberto Daniel; Torrent, Daniel; Sotomayor Torres, Clivia M; García, Pedro David Wiley (2024)
      In optomechanics, the interaction between light and matter is enhanced by engineering cavities where the electromagnetic field and the mechanical displacement are confined simultaneously within the same volume. This leads ...
    • openAccess   Robustness of conventional and topologically protected edge states in phononic crystal plates 

      Jin, Yabin; Torrent, Daniel; Djafari Rouhani, Bahram American Physical Society (2018)
      Many efforts have been devoted to studying the robustness of topologically protected edge states in acoustics; however, the robustness of conventional edge states is rarely reported. In this work we theoretically ...
    • openAccess   Single and coupled Helmholtz resonators for low frequency sound manipulation 

      SABAT, ROBINE; pennec, yan; Lévêque, Gaëtan; Torrent, Daniel; Ding, Changlin; Djafari Rouhani, Bahram American Institute of Physics (2022-08-12)
      In this work, we use the finite element method to study the acoustic properties of single and coupled Helmholtz resonators (HRs). Each HR consists of a sphere drilled with one or several small openings. For a single HR, ...
    • openAccess   Strong spatial dispersion in time-modulated dielectric media 

      Torrent, Daniel American Physical Society (2020)
      We present an effective medium description of time-modulated dielectric media. By taking the averaged fields over one modulation period, the relationship between them is derived, therefore defining the different ...
    • openAccess   Theory of holey twistsonic media 

      Rosendo López, María; Zhang, Zhiwang; Torrent, Daniel; Christensen, Johan Springer Nature (2022-12-15)
      Rotating two overlapping lattices relative to each other produces the well known moiré interference patterns and has surprisingly led to strongly correlated superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene. This seminal effect ...
    • openAccess   Topological States in Twisted Pillared Phononic Plates 

      Jin, Yabin; Wang, Wan; Wen, Zhihui; Torrent, Daniel; Djafari Rouhani, Bahram Elsevier (2020-09-20)
      In recent years, the advances in topological insulator in the fields of condensed matter have been extended to classical wave systems such as acoustic and elastic waves. However, the quantitative robustness study of ...
    • openAccess   Topological vortex mode for flexural waves in pillared plates 

      Wen, Zhihui; Iglesias Martínez, Julio Andrés; Jin, Yabin; Li, Yan; Djafari Rouhani, Bahram; Torrent, Daniel; Raynaud, Jean-louis; Khelif, Abdelkrim Elsevier (2023)
      Localized topological modes with high robustness to various perturbations are receiving increasing attention. Recently, zero-order topological vortex modes have been designed in phononic structures, in analogy with ...
    • openAccess   Ultrathin Acoustic Parity-Time Symmetric Metasurface Cloak 

      Li, Hao-xiang; Rosendo López, María; Zhu, Yi-fan; Fan, Xu-dong; Torrent, Daniel; Liang, Bin; Cheng, Jian-chun; Christensen, Johan American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019)
      Invisibility or unhearability cloaks have beenmade possible by using metamaterials enabling light or sound to flow around obstacle without the trace of reflections or shadows. Metamaterials are known for being flexible ...
    • openAccess   Valley Hall phases in kagome lattices 

      Lera, Natalia; Torrent, Daniel; San-Jose, Pablo; Christensen, J.; Álvarez, J. V. American Physical Society (2019)
      We report the finding of the analogous valley Hall effect in phononic systems arising from mirror symmetry breaking, in addition to spatial inversion symmetry breaking. We study topological phases of plates and spring-mass ...