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Topological metamaterials exhibit unusual behaviors at their boundaries, such as unidirectional chiral waves, that are protected by a topological feature of their band structure. The ability to tune such a material through a topological phase transition in real time could enable the use of protected waves for information storage and readout. Here we dynamically tune through a topological phase transition by breaking inversion symmetry in a metamaterial composed of interacting gyroscopes. Through the transition, we track the divergence of the edge modes’ localization length and the change in Chern number characterizing the topology of the material’s band structure. The work reported in this chapter provides a new axis with which to tune the response of mechanical topological metamaterials.
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Mitchell, N. (2020). Realization of a Topological Phase Transition in a Gyroscopic Lattice. In: Geometric Control of Fracture and Topological Metamaterials. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36361-1_4
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