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Physicists Turn Disorder Into a Tool for Controlling Waves

Researchers have demonstrated that scattering in disordered media can be harnessed rather than suppressed, using a generalized Wigner-Smith operator to design a compact acoustic device that performs non-Abelian braiding of waveguide modes.

Turning disorder into a resource for wave control
Physicists Turn Disorder Into a Tool for Controlling Waves
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Researchers have demonstrated that scattering in disordered media can be harnessed rather than suppressed, using a generalized Wigner-Smith operator to design a compact acoustic device that performs non-Abelian braiding of waveguide modes.

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