Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Robust temporal pumping in a magneto-mechanical topological insulator

  • Inbar Hotzen Grinberg,
  • Mao Lin,
  • Cameron Harris,
  • Wladimir A. Benalcazar,
  • Christopher W. Peterson,
  • Taylor L. Hughes,
  • Gaurav Bahl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14804-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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A robust time-controlled energy pumping in a classical metamaterial remains to be achieved. Here, Grinberg et al. demonstrate a temporal topological pump that produces on-demand, robust transport of mechanical energy using a one-dimensional magneto-mechanical metamaterial.