{"title":"Active acoustic metamaterials reconfigurable in real-time","authors":"B. Popa, Durvesh Shinde, Adam Konneker, S. Cummer","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.91.220303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.91.220303","url":null,"abstract":"A major limitation of current acoustic metamaterials is that their acoustic properties are either locked into place once fabricated or only modestly tunable, tying them to the particular application for which they are designed. We present in this paper a design approach that yields active metamaterials whose physical structure is fixed, yet their local acoustic response can be changed almost arbitrarily and in real-time by configuring the digital electronics that control the metamaterial acoustic properties. We demonstrate experimentally this approach by designing a metamaterial slab configured to act as a very thin acoustic lens that manipulates differently three identical, consecutive pulses incident on the lens. Moreover, we show that the slab can be configured to implement simultaneously various roles, such as that of a lens and beam steering device. Finally, we show that the metamaterial slab is suitable for efficient second harmonic acoustic imaging devices capable to overcome the diffraction limit of linear lenses. These advantages demonstrate the versatility of this active metamaterial and highlight its broad applicability, in particular to acoustic imaging.","PeriodicalId":331413,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Classical Physics","volume":"33 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123621845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Active Invisibility Cloaks in One Dimension","authors":"A. Mostafazadeh","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVA.91.063812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.91.063812","url":null,"abstract":"We outline a general method of constructing finite-range cloaking potentials which render a given finite-range real or complex potential $v(x)$ unidirectionally reflectionless or invisible at a wavenumber $k_0$ of our choice. We give explicit analytic expressions for three classes of cloaking potentials which achieve this goal while preserving some or all of the other scattering properties of $v(x)$. The cloaking potentials we construct are the sum of up to three constituent unidirectionally invisible potentials. We also discuss their application in making $v(x)$ bidirectionally invisible at $k_0$, and demonstrate the application of our method to obtain anti-reflection and invisibility cloaks for a Bragg reflector.","PeriodicalId":331413,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Classical Physics","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134623265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decomposition of Electromagnetic Q and P Media","authors":"I. Lindell, A. Favaro","doi":"10.2528/PIERB15030901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERB15030901","url":null,"abstract":"Two previously studied classes of electromagnetic media, labeled as those of Q media and P media, are decomposed according to the natural decomposition introduced by Hehl and Obukhov. Six special cases based on either non-existence or sole existence of the three Hehl-Obukhov components, are defined for both medium classes.","PeriodicalId":331413,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Classical Physics","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125522159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Auvray, Augustin Ernoult, S. Terrien, B. Fabre, C. Vergez
{"title":"Effect of Changing the Vocal Tract Shape on the Sound Production of the Recorder: An Experimental and Theoretical Study","authors":"R. Auvray, Augustin Ernoult, S. Terrien, B. Fabre, C. Vergez","doi":"10.3813/AAA.918829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3813/AAA.918829","url":null,"abstract":"Changing the vocal tract shape is one of the techniques which can be used by the players of wind instruments to modify the quality of the sound. It has been intensely studied in the case of reed instruments but has received only little attention in the case of air-jet instruments. This paper presents a first study focused on changes in the vocal tract shape in recorder playing techniques. Measurements carried out with recorder players allow to identify techniques involving changes of the mouth shape as well as consequences on the sound. A second experiment performed in laboratory mimics the coupling with the vocal tract on an artificial mouth. The phase of the transfer function between the instrument and the mouth of the player is identified to be the relevant parameter of the coupling. It is shown to have consequences on the spectral content in terms of energy distribution among the even and odd harmonics, as well as on the stability of the first two oscillating regimes. The results gathered from the two experiments allow to develop a simplified model of sound production including the effect of changing the vocal tract shape. It is based on the modification of the jet instabilities due to the pulsating emerging jet. Two kinds of instabilities, symmetric and anti-symmetric, with respect to the stream axis, are controlled by the coupling with the vocal tract and the acoustic oscillation within the pipe, respectively. The symmetry properties of the flow are mapped on the temporal formulation of the source term, predicting a change in the even / odd harmonics energy distribution. The predictions are in qualitative agreement with the experimental observations.","PeriodicalId":331413,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Classical Physics","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121747676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Direct calculation of length contraction and clock retardation","authors":"D. Redžić","doi":"10.2298/SAJ1590049R","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SAJ1590049R","url":null,"abstract":"For simple electromagnetic models of a rod and a clock, a change of the shape of the rod and of the rate of the clock when they are set in uniform motion is calculated exactly, employing the correct equation of motion of a charged particle in the electromagnetic field and the universal boostability assumption. Thus it is demonstrated that, for the simple system considered, length contraction and clock retardation can be interpreted as dynamical cause-and-effect phenomena, and not as kinematical effects as is usually construed in conventional presentations of Special Relativity. It is argued that the perspectival relativistic change of an object (corresponding to observations from two inertial frames), while certainly an acausal effect, has a dynamical content in the sense that it is {it tantamount to} an actual dynamical change of the object in one frame.","PeriodicalId":331413,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Classical Physics","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126855104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hailong He, Shiliang Ouyang, Zhaojian He, K. Deng, He-ping Zhao
{"title":"Broadband acoustic trapping of a particle by a soft plate with a periodic deep grating","authors":"Hailong He, Shiliang Ouyang, Zhaojian He, K. Deng, He-ping Zhao","doi":"10.1063/1.4919218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4919218","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated the acoustic radiation force (ARF) acting on a cylindrical brass particle near an acoustically soft plate patterned with a periodic deep grating. The existence of a negative ARF by which the particle can be pulled towards the sound source is confirmed. In addition, the bandwidth for negative ARF in this soft-plate system is found to be considerably broader than in the stiff-plate systems typically used in previous studies. It is further demonstrated by field distribution analysis that the negative ARF is caused by the gradient force induced by the gradient vortex velocity field near the surface, which stems from the collective resonance excitation of the antisymmetric coupling of Scholte surface waves in the thin plate. The effects of particle location and size on the ARF were also investigated in detail. The negative ARF has potential use in applications requiring particle manipulation using acoustic waves.","PeriodicalId":331413,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Classical Physics","volume":"283 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127395721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stringy Maxwell charge and the magnetic dipole moment","authors":"R. Hammond","doi":"10.1142/S0218271816400010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271816400010","url":null,"abstract":"It is shown that stringy charge leads naturally to an observable magnetic moment of the electron.","PeriodicalId":331413,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Classical Physics","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126244358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Lefebvre, M. Dubois, R. Beauvais, Y. Achaoui, R. Ing, P. Sebbah
{"title":"Experiments on Maxwell's Fish-eye dynamics in elastic plates","authors":"G. Lefebvre, M. Dubois, R. Beauvais, Y. Achaoui, R. Ing, P. Sebbah","doi":"10.1063/1.4905730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4905730","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally demonstrate that a Duraluminium thin plate with a thickness profile varying radially in a piecewise constant fashion as h(r)=h(0)(1+(r/Rmax)), with h(0)=0.5 mm, h(Rmax)=2 mm and Rmax=10 cm behaves in many ways as Maxwell's fish-eye lens in optics, since its imaging properties for a Gaussian pulse with central frequencies 30~kHz and 60~kHz are very similar to those predicted by ray trajectories (great circles) on a virtual sphere (rays emanating from the North pole meet at the South pole). However, refocusing time depends on the carrier frequency as a direct consequence of the dispersive nature of flexural waves in thin plates. Importantly, experimental results are in good agreement with Finite-Difference-Time-Domain simulations.","PeriodicalId":331413,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Classical Physics","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115451828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dani Irawan, S. Viridi, S. Khotimah, F. Latief, Novitrian
{"title":"Modeling and characterization of charged particle trajectories in an oscillating magnetic field","authors":"Dani Irawan, S. Viridi, S. Khotimah, F. Latief, Novitrian","doi":"10.1063/1.4917140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4917140","url":null,"abstract":"A constant magnetic field has frequently been discussed and has been known that it can cause a charged particle to form interesting trajectories such as cycloid and helix in presence of electric field, but a changing magnetic field is rarely discussed. In this work, modeling and characterization of charged particle trajectories in oscillating magnetic field is reported. The modeling is performed using Euler method with speed corrector. The result shows that there are two types of trajectory patterns that will recur for every 180nT0 (n = 0, 1, 2, ..) in increasing of magnetic field oscillation period, where T0 is about 6.25 × 10−7 s.","PeriodicalId":331413,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Classical Physics","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122593107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical Method for Solving Electromagnetic Scattering Problem by Many Small Impedance Bodies","authors":"Nhan Tran","doi":"10.4236/AJCM.2017.74031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/AJCM.2017.74031","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the problem of electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by many small impedance bodies. A numerical method for solving this problem is presented. The problem is solved under the physical assumptions $all d ll lambda$, where $a$ is the characteristic size of the bodies, $d$ is the minimal distance between neighboring bodies, $lambda=2pi/k$ is the wave length and $k$ is the wave number. This problem is solved asymptotically and numerical results for the cases of 125 and 1000 small bodies are presented to illustrate the method. Error estimates for the asymptotic solutions are also provided.","PeriodicalId":331413,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Classical Physics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127152297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}