Digitally virtualized atoms for acoustic metamaterials

Choonlae Cho, Xinhua Wen, Namkyoo Park and Jensen Li ()
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Choonlae Cho: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xinhua Wen: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Namkyoo Park: Seoul National University
Jensen Li: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract By designing tailor-made resonance modes with structured atoms, metamaterials allow us to obtain constitutive parameters outside their limited range from natural materials. Nonetheless, tuning the constitutive parameters depends on our ability to modify the physical structure or external circuits attached to the metamaterials, posing a fundamental challenge to the range of tunability in many real-time applications. Here, we propose the concept of virtualized metamaterials on their signal response function to escape the boundary inherent in the physical structure of metamaterials. By replacing the resonating physical structure with a designer mathematical convolution kernel with a fast digital signal processing circuit, we demonstrate a decoupled control of the effective bulk modulus and mass density of acoustic metamaterials on-demand through a software-defined frequency dispersion. Providing freely software-reconfigurable amplitude, center frequency, bandwidth of frequency dispersion, our approach adds an additional dimension to constructing non-reciprocal, non-Hermitian, and topological systems with time-varying capability as potential applications.

Date: 2020
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