My week started well with the acceptance of a paper for publication on Monday. I was very pleased (& surprised) to see the accepted version already online with New J. Phys. (https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/adaf50).
The paper, with colleagues from Exeter, looks at waves on flexural lattices with beyond-nearest-neighbour interactions. We demonstrate that competing power channels, between mass and rotational inertia, drive the position and existence of zero group velocity modes within the first Brillouin zone.
Full credit must go to the PhD students, Erica Paul & Robyn Edge, who drove this work forward.