Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Topological control of extreme waves

  • Giulia Marcucci,
  • Davide Pierangeli,
  • Aharon J. Agranat,
  • Ray-Kuang Lee,
  • Eugenio DelRe,
  • Claudio Conti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12815-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Theories state that transitions between extreme waves are allowed but experimental confirmations are lacking because of lack of control strategies. Here, the authors propose and experimentally report, for the first time, the use of topological indices to control the generation of extreme waves.