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  • Jana, S., Manda, B. M., Achilleos, V., Frantzeskakis, D. J., & Sirota, L. (2026). Solution of wave acceleration and non-Hermitian jump in nonreciprocal lattices. Physical Review Applied, 26(2), 024076.
  • Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2026). Fast wave transport in two-dimensional PT-symmetric lattices. npj Metamaterials, 2(1), 4.
  • Langfeldt, F., Tan, J., Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2025). Realizing non-Hermitian tunneling phenomena using non-reciprocal active acoustic metamaterials. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 158(6), 4900-4911.
  • Wang, K., Langfeldt, F., Shen, C., Zou, H., Zhao, S., Lu, J., & Sirota, L. (2025). Supersonic wave propagation in active non-Hermitian acoustic metamaterials. Physical Review Applied, 24(3), 034061.
  • Jana, S., Many Manda, B., Achilleos, V., Frantzeskakis, D. J., & Sirota, L. (2025). Harnessing nonlinearity to tame wave dynamics in nonreciprocal active systems. Physical Review Applied, 24(4), L041005.
  • Stefanov, V., Stefanov, A., Sirota, L., Slepyan, G., & Mogilevtsev, D. (2025). Noise avalanche and its quantum quenching in bosonic chains with random off-diagonal disorder. Physical Review A, 112(1), 013526.
  • Benisty, Y., Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2025). Controlled wave acceleration in PT-symmetric and inhomogeneous non-Hermitian lattices. Physical Review B, 111(17), 174304.
  • Liao, D., Wen, X., Zhu, X., Jana, S., Sirota, L., & Li, J. (2025). Field depletion using complementary Willis coupling. Physical Review B, 111(17), 174104.
  • Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2025). Invisible tunneling through non-Hermitian barriers in nonreciprocal lattices. Physical Review B, 111(10), L100301.
  • Sirota, L., & Jana, S. (2024, March). Unlocking arbitrary fast wavepackets: controlled group velocity in non-Hermitian classical systems. In APS March Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2024, pp. D03-011).
  • Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2024, March). Investigating tunneling-like transmission of solitons through a non-Hermitian metamaterial. In APS March Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2024, pp. D03-006).
  • Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2023). Gravitational lensing and tunneling of mechanical waves in synthetic curved spacetime. Physical Review Research, 5(3), 033104.
  • Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2023). Emerging exceptional point with breakdown of the skin effect in non-Hermitian systems. Physical Review B, 108(8), 085104.
  • Lasri, O., & Sirota, L. (2023). Active control approach to temporal acoustic cloaking. Applied Physics Letters, 123(3).
  • Lasri, O., & Sirota, L. (2023). Real-time-controlled artificial quiet channel for acoustic cloaking under varying detection conditions. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 200, 110501.
  • Lasri, O., & Sirota, L. (2023). Temporal negative refraction. Optical Materials Express, 13(5), 1401-1408.
  • Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2023, September). Real-time creation of curved space-time for gravitational lensing in phononic crystals. In 2023 Seventeenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) (pp. 353-355). IEEE.
  • Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2023, September). Emerging Anomalous In-Gap Modes In Non Hermitian System. In 2023 Seventeenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) (pp. X-145). IEEE.
  • Benisty, J., Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2023, September). Tunneling phenomenon in non-Hermitian classic systems. In 2023 Seventeenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) (pp. X-043). IEEE.
  • Sirota, L., & Jana, S. (2023). Distributed topological zero modes in a Non Hermitian quantum system. In APS March Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2023, pp. B42-004).
  • Sirota, L., & Jana, S. (2023). Mimicking quantum tunneling using active mechanical circuits. In APS March Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2023, pp. T23-013).
  • Sirota, L. (2022, September). Exploring dynamical stability of one-dimensional non-Hermitian classical systems. In 2022 Sixteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) (pp. X-407). IEEE.
  • Lasri, O., & Sirota, L. (2022, September). Double-Negative Temporal Acoustic Metamaterials. In 2022 Sixteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) (pp. X-253). IEEE.
  • Jana, S., & Sirota, L. (2022, September). A classical-mechanical analogue of Hawking black hole radiation. In 2022 Sixteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) (pp. 205-207). IEEE.
  • Sirota, L. (2022). Klein-like tunneling of sound via negative index metamaterials. Physical Review Applied, 18(1), 014057.
  • Sirota, L. (2021, September). Quantum tunneling analogue in real-time-controlled mechanical metamaterials. In 2021 Fifteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) (pp. 041-043). IEEE.
  • Sirota, L. (2021). Klein-like tunneling in acoustic metamaterials. In APS March Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2021, pp. M17-010).
  • Sirota, L., Sabsovich, D., Lahini, Y., Ilan, R., & Shokef, Y. (2021). Real-time steering of curved sound beams in a feedback-based topological acoustic metamaterial. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 153, 107479.
  • Sirota, L., Ilan, R., Shokef, Y., & Lahini, Y. (2020). Non-Newtonian topological mechanical metamaterials using feedback control. Physical Review Letters, 125(25), 256802.
  • Sirota, L., Lahini, Y., Ilan, R., & Shokef, Y. (2020, September). Feedback-based topological mechanical metamaterials. In 2020 Fourteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) (pp. 415-417). IEEE.
  • Sirota, L., & Annaswamy, A. M. (2020). Active boundary and interior absorbers for one-dimensional wave propagation: Application to transmission-line metamaterials. Automatica, 117, 108855.
  • Sirota, L., & Annaswamy, A. M. (2019). Modeling and control of wave propagation in a ring with applications to power grids. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(9), 3676-3689.
  • Sirota, L., Semperlotti, F., & Annaswamy, A. M. (2019). Tunable and reconfigurable mechanical transmission-line metamaterials via direct active feedback control. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 123, 117-130.
  • Sirota, L., & Annaswamy, A. M. (2019). Active wave suppression in the interior of a one-dimensional domain. Automatica, 100, 403-406.
  • Sirota, L., & Annaswamy, A. M. (2017). Spatially continuous modeling and control of swing dynamics in electric power grids. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50(1), 4400-4405.

  • Sirota, L., Halevi, Y., & Krstic, M. (2016, July). On the relationship between the absolute vibration suppression and back-stepping methods in control of the wave equation with possibly unstable boundary conditions. In 2016 American Control Conference (ACC) (pp. 6709-6714). IEEE.
  • Sirota, L., & Halevi, Y. (2015). Fractional order control of the two-dimensional wave equation. Automatica, 59, 152-163.
  • Sirota, L., & Halevi, Y. (2015, July). Fractional order control of flexible structures governed by the damped wave equation. In 2015 American Control Conference (ACC) (pp. 565-570). IEEE.
  • Sirota, L., & Halevi, Y. (2014, September). A combined modal-wave based control of membranes using irrational transfer functions. In ASME 2014 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (Vol. 1, V001T03A029). ASME.
  • Sirota, L., & Halevi, Y. (2014, June). Wave based vibration control of membranes. In 2014 American Control Conference (pp. 2729-2734). IEEE.
  • Sirota, L., & Halevi, Y. (2014). The complete infinite series solution of systems governed by the wave equation with boundary damping. Wave Motion, 51(1), 114-124.
  • Sirota, L., & Halevi, Y. (2013). Modal representation of second order flexible structures with damped boundaries. Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 135(6), 064508.
  • Sirota, L., & Halevi, Y. (2013). Extended D'Alembert solution of finite length second order flexible structures with damped boundaries. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 39(1-2), 47-58.
  • Sirota, L., & Halevi, Y. (2012, July). Modeling and control of flexible second order systems with damped boundaries. In ASME 2012 11th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (Vol. 1, pp. 607-613). ASME.
  • Sirota, L., & Halevi, Y. (2010). Free response and absolute vibration suppression of second-order flexible structures: The traveling wave approach. Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 132(3), 031008.
  • Sirota, L., Peled, I., & Halevi, Y. (2008, July). Vibration suppression of flexible structures using the infinite dimensional Laplace domain approach. In ASME 2008 9th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (Vol. 2, pp. 431-440). ASME.

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