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Surface phononic graphene.

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The demonstrated fully integrated artificial phononic graphene platform here constitutes a step towards on-chip quantum simulators of graphene and unique monolithic electro-acoustic integrated circuits.
Abstract
Strategic manipulation of wave and particle transport in various media is the key driving force for modern information processing and communication. In a strongly scattering medium, waves and particles exhibit versatile transport characteristics such as localization, tunnelling with exponential decay, ballistic, and diffusion behaviours due to dynamical multiple scattering from strong scatters or impurities. Recent investigations of graphene have offered a unique approach, from a quantum point of view, to design the dispersion of electrons on demand, enabling relativistic massless Dirac quasiparticles, and thus inducing low-loss transport either ballistically or diffusively. Here, we report an experimental demonstration of an artificial phononic graphene tailored for surface phonons on a LiNbO3 integrated platform. The system exhibits Dirac quasiparticle-like transport, that is, pseudo-diffusion at the Dirac point, which gives rise to a thickness-independent temporal beating for transmitted pulses, an analogue of Zitterbewegung effects. The demonstrated fully integrated artificial phononic graphene platform here constitutes a step towards on-chip quantum simulators of graphene and unique monolithic electro-acoustic integrated circuits.

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Electrical tuning of elastic wave propagation in nanomechanical lattices at MHz frequencies.

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Physics of surface vibrational resonances: pillared phononic crystals, metamaterials, and metasurfaces.

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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of a Dirac point on the transmission of monochromatic radiation through a photonic crystal was studied and it was shown that the extremal transmission is inversely proportional to the longitudinal dimension of the crystal.
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Observation of novel edge states in photonic graphene

TL;DR: In this article, the edge states on both the zig-zag and bearded edges of a photonic honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms were directly image and measured their dispersion properties, and most importantly, one residing on the bearded edge which was unknown and cannot be explained through conventional tight-binding theory.
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Two-Dimensional Mott-Hubbard Electrons in an Artificial Honeycomb Lattice

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