Sonic Landau Levels and Synthetic Gauge Fields in Mechanical Metamaterials
Sonic Landau Levels and Synthetic Gauge Fields in Mechanical Metamaterials
Mechanical strain can lead to a synthetic gauge field that controls the dynamics of electrons in graphene sheets as well as light in photonic crystals. Here, we show how to engineer an analogous synthetic gauge field for lattice vibrations. Our approach relies on one of two strategies: shearing a honeycomb …