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Lattice-induced sound trapping in biperiodic metasurfaces of acoustic resonators

Nikita Ustimenko1,*, Andrey B. Evlyukhin2,3, Vicky Kyrimi4, Alexander V. Kildishev5, and Carsten Rockstuhl1,6,†

  • *Contact author: nikita.ustimenko@kit.edu
  • †Contact author: carsten.rockstuhl@kit.edu
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Phys. Rev. Research 8, 013074 – Published 23 January, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/wnmk-zhrb

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A referential example of a physical system that supports bound states in the continuum (BICs) with an infinite quality factor (Q factor) is a metasurface of discrete scatterers (resonators), whose response can be significantly modified by exploiting lattice interactions. In this work, we explore the multipole-interference mechanism for realizing accidental acoustic BICs (trapped modes) at Γ point (in-plane Bloch wave vector k∥=0) of biperiodic metasurfaces of acoustic resonators with one resonator per unit cell. To do so, we expand the pressure field from the metasurface into a series of scalar zonal (m=0) spherical multipoles, carried by a normally incident plane wave, and formulate analytical conditions on the resonator multipole moments under which an eigenmode becomes a BIC. The conditions enable us to determine the lattice constant and frequency values that facilitate the formation of an axisymmetric BIC with a specific parity, resulting from destructive interference between zonal multipoles of the same parity, despite each moment radiating individually. By employing the T-matrix method for acoustic metasurfaces, we numerically investigate the BIC resonance in various structures, including finite arrays, and also the transformation of such resonances into high-Q quasi-BIC regimes, which can be excited by a plane wave at normal incidence.

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Phys. Rev. Research 8, 013074– Published 23 January, 2026
  • Received 21 October 2025
  • Accepted 2 January 2026
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