Acoustic response in a a one-dimensional layered pseudo-Hermitian metamaterial containing defects
| Autor: | Psiachos, D., Sigalas, M. M. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Physics v.123 p.245109 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.5027457 |
| Popis: | Using transfer-matrix methods, we investigate the response of a multilayered metamaterial system containing defects to an incident acoustic plane wave at normal or oblique incidence. The transmission response is composed of pass-bands with oscillatory behaviour, separated by band gaps and covers a wide frequency range. The presence of gain and loss in the layers leads to the emergence of symmetry breaking and re-entrant phases. In the general case, a system containing defects will display a more general property, pseudo-Hermiticity (PH), of which $\mathcal{PT}$ systems are a subset. In the PH-symmetric phase, unidirectional responses of the reflection, accomplished by reversing the parity $\mathcal{P}$, can be found but the response sometimes deviates from the predictions of simple scattering theory which call for a pseudo-unitarity relation relating the transmission and the two directions of reflections to hold. The converse of reversing the parity, reversing the time operator $\mathcal{T}$ in a spatially-asymmetric system within the PH-symmetric regime can lead to different transmissions: a pass-band versus a stop-band. As regions of stable PH-symmetric pass-band transmission oscillations occur over a wide spectral range, there is a large flexibility in system parameters such as layer thicknesses, for leading to the desired unidirectional traits. In addition, we find that while defects in general lead to a near or complete loss of PH symmetry at all frequencies, they can be exploited to produce highly-sensitive responses, making such systems good candidates for sensor applications. Comment: Changed title, made revisions |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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