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Switchable phonon diodes using nonlinear topological Maxwell lattices
Di Zhou, Jihong Ma, Kai Sun +2
Recent progress in topological mechanics have revealed a family of Maxwell lattices that exhibit topologically protected floppy edge modes. These modes lead to a strongly asymmetri…
Universal Continuum Theory for Topological Edge Soft Modes
Kai Sun, Xiaoming Mao
Topological edge zero modes and states of self stress have been intensively studied in discrete lattices at the Maxwell point, offering robust properties concerning surface and int…
Maxwell plates and phonon fractionalization
Kai Sun, Xiaoming Mao
In the past a few years, topologically protected mechanical phenomena have been extensively studied in discrete lattices and networks, leading to a rich set of discoveries such as…
Physical limits to sensing material properties
Farzan Beroz, Di Zhou, Xiaoming Mao +1
Constitutive relations describe how materials respond to external stimuli such as forces. All materials respond heterogeneously at small scales, which limits what a localized senso…