Honeycomb-lattice Minnaert bubbles

Abstract: The ability to manipulate the propagation of waves on subwavelength scales is important for many different physical applications. In this paper, we consider a honeycomb lattice of subwavelength resonators and prove, for the first time, the existence of a Dirac dispersion cone at subwavelength scales. As shown in [H. Ammari et al., A high-frequency homogenization approach near the Dirac points in bubbly honeycomb crystals, arXiv:1812.06178], near the Dirac points, honeycomb crystals of subwavelength resonators has a great potential to be used as near-zero materials. Here, we perform the analysis for the example of bubbly crystals, which is a classic example of subwavelength resonance, where the resonant frequency of a single bubble is known as the Minnaert resonant frequency. Our first result is an asymptotic formula for the quasi-periodic Minnaert resonant frequencies. We then prove the linear dispersion relation of a Dirac cone. Our findings in this paper are numerically illustrated in the case of circular bubbles, where the multipole expansion method provides an efficient technique for computing the band structure.