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- Title
Observation of vortex-string chiral modes in metamaterials.
- Authors
Ma, Jingwen; Jia, Ding; Zhang, Li; Guan, Yi-jun; Ge, Yong; Sun, Hong-xiang; Yuan, Shou-qi; Chen, Hongsheng; Yang, Yihao; Zhang, Xiang
- Abstract
As hypothetical topological defects in the geometry of spacetime, vortex strings could have played many roles in cosmology, and their distinct features can provide observable clues about the early universe’s evolution. A key feature of vortex strings is that they can interact with Weyl fermionic modes and support massless chiral-anomaly states along strings. To date, despite many attempts to detect vortex strings in astrophysics or to emulate them in artificially created systems, observation of these vortex-string chiral modes remains experimentally elusive. Here we report experimental observations of vortex-string chiral modes using a metamaterial system. This is implemented by inhomogeneous perturbation of Yang-monopole phononic metamaterials. The measured linear dispersion and modal profiles confirm the existence of topological modes bound to and propagating along the string with the chiral anomaly. Our work provides a platform for studying diverse cosmic topological defects in astrophysics and offers applications as topological fibres in communication techniques.Vortex string, hypothetical topological defects in cosmology, are predicted to support massless chiral modes. The authors successfully mimicked vortex-string physics in a metamaterial system and experimentally observed the chiral modes within it.
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2024, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-024-46641-w