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most citedTopological Phase Transition in Mechanical Honeycomb Lattice

184 citations · 586 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 184 cited

Topological Phase Transition in Mechanical Honeycomb Lattice

Yi Chen, Xiaoning Liu, Gengkai Hu

Topological materials provide a new tool to direct wave energy with unprecedented precision and robustness. Three elastic topological phases, the valley Hall, Chern and spin Hall i…

physics.app-ph2024

Extremal micropolar materials for elastic wave cloaking

Dingxin Sun, Yi Chen, Xiaoning Liu +1

The asymmetric transformation elasticity offers a promising method to control elastic waves. However, this method requires elastic materials that support asymmetric stresses, which…

physics.class-ph2024★ 10 cited

Rayleigh surface waves of extremal elastic materials

Yu Wei, Yi Chen, Wen Cheng +2

Extremal elastic materials here refer to a specific class of elastic materials whose elastic matrices exhibit one or more zero eigenvalues, resulting in soft deformation modes that…

physics.class-ph2019★ 124 cited

An asymmetric elastic metamaterial model for elastic wave cloaking

Hongkuan Zhang, Yi Chen, Xiaoning Liu +1

Elastic material with its elastic tensor losing minor symmetry is considered impossible without introducing artificially body torque. Here we demonstrate the feasibility of such ma…

physics.class-ph2018★ 49 cited

Boundary effect on acoustic cloak with unideal pentamode material

Yi Chen, Xiaoning Liu, Gengkai Hu

Pentamode materials are elastic solids with vanishing shear modulus, and can be used cloak underwater sound with solid state and broadband merits. However, pentamode materials real…

physics.class-ph2016★ 183 cited

Broadband solid cloak for underwater acoustics

Yi Chen, Mingye Zheng, Xiaoning Liu +5

Application of transformation theory to underwater acoustics has been a challenging task because highly anisotropic density is unachievable in water. A possible strategy is to expl…

physics.class-ph2011★ 13 cited

Transformation Ray Method: Controlling High Frequency Elastic Waves

Zheng Chang, Jin Hu, Xiaoning Liu +1

A transformation method based on elastic ray theory is proposed to control high frequency elastic waves. We show that ray path can be controlled in an exact manner, however energy…

physics.optics2009★ 23 cited

Constraint condition on transformed relation for generalized acoustics

Jin Hu, Xiaoning Liu, Gengkai Hu

Contrary to transformation optics (TO), there exist many possibilities for transformed relations of material property and field variable in case of transformation acoustics (TA). T…