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Published April 25, 2017 | Submitted + Supplemental Material + Published
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Pseudomagnetic fields for sound at the nanoscale

Abstract

There is a growing effort in creating chiral transport of sound waves. However, most approaches so far have been confined to the macroscopic scale. Here, we propose an approach suitable to the nanoscale that is based on pseudomagnetic fields. These pseudomagnetic fields for sound waves are the analogue of what electrons experience in strained graphene. In our proposal, they are created by simple geometrical modifications of an existing and experimentally proven phononic crystal design, the snowflake crystal. This platform is robust, scalable, and well-suited for a variety of excitation and readout mechanisms, among them optomechanical approaches.

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© 2017 National Academy of Sciences. Edited by Tom C. Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and approved March 10, 2017 (received for review September 27, 2016) This work was supported by European Research Council Starting Grant OPTOMECH (to V.P., C.B., and F.M.) and by the European Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network cQOM (F.M.). This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant 732894 (Hybrid Optomechanical Technologies) (to V.P. and F.M.). This work was also supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research–Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Quantum Photonic Matter, Army Research Office–MURI Quantum Opto-Mechanics with Atoms and Nanostructured Diamond Grant N00014-15- 1-2761, the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, and NSF Physics Frontiers Center Grant PHY-1125565 with support of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant GBMF-2644 (all to O.J.P.). Author contributions: V.P., O.J.P., and F.M. designed research; C.B., V.P., and F.M. performed research; C.B., V.P., and F.M. analyzed data; and C.B., V.P., O.J.P., and F.M. wrote the paper. The authors declare no conflict of interest. This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1615503114/-/DCSupplemental.

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