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Light interaction with synthetically moving metamaterials

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fast, massively parallel computation at a fraction of the power. With low energy consumption, metamaterials have the potential to address sustainable computing, and the rapid adoption of power-hungry artificial intelligence. The challenge is to exploit the temporal dimension and develop metamaterials that can compute both spatial and temporal derivatives and simulate spatio-temporal potentials. The temporal degree of freedom is already within reach as time-varying metamaterials have been recently demonstrated. Building on this novel field, I have shown that synthetic motion in metamaterials, where materials behave as if they were moving, is possible, and even at superluminal speeds, through the combination of both spatial and temporal modulation. Light interaction with synthetically moving metamaterials (LUMINOUS) is the first experimental investigation of synthetic motion to perform analogue computation. The key to this project is our ability to achieve very large, close-to-unity temporal modulations on the timescale of the optical period of light (~fs), together with digital cont

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