Snowflake phononic topological insulator at the nanoscale

Christian Brendel, Vittorio Peano, Oskar Painter, Florian Marquardt
2018 Physical review B  
We show how the snowflake phononic crystal structure, which has been realized experimentally recently, can be turned into a topological insulator for sound waves. This idea, based purely on simple geometrical modifications, could be readily implemented on the nanoscale.
doi:10.1103/physrevb.97.020102 fatcat:fbd6tqn2czb3tgx2gpg3lqe2te