Tuneable phononic crystals and topological acoustics

Tuneable phononic crystals and topological acoustics Sourav Banerjee, Professor from the University of South Carolina, navigates the field of tuneable phononic crystals and topological acoustics. Acoustics, an age-old field of study, has recently revealed new physics with new degrees of freedom of wave propagation. These new findings are invaluable for information processing using acoustic modality. Information processing using acoustics is called acoustic computing. Computing Boolean algebra, which has already been demonstrated, could pave the pathways even for quantum computing using acoustics. Not in the very distant future, the recently discovered quantum and topological behavior of acoustics could be an integral part of computing modalities.