Sound/elastic-wave systems with fermionic quantum-like behavior for phase-based encoding of information

A system for encoding information in a phononic structure, the system comprising:

• a phononic structure having a ferm ion-like behavior and supporting elastic waves, the phononic structure describable by a wave function, wherein the wave function has a spinor part and the spinor part has one or more components;
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• one or more phase-bits having a state comprising a superposition of waves propagating in a direction through the phononic structure, wherein operating on the components of the spinor part of the wave function acts on the acts on the state of the phase-bits;
• wherein the state of the phase-bits is associated with information encoded therein.

A system for encoding and operating on information in a phononic structure, the system comprising:

• a phononic structure having a ferm ion-like behavior and supporting elastic waves, the phononic structure describable by a wave function, wherein the wave function has a spinor part and the spinor part has one or more components;
• two or more phase-bits having a state comprising a superposition of waves propagating in a direction through the phononic structure, wherein operating on the components of the spinor part of the wave function acts on the state of the phase-bits, wherein the state of the phase-bits is associated with information encoded therein;
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• a device linking a magnitude of an external stimulus on a second phase-bit to a transmission coefficient of a first phase-bit, wherein two external stimuli are applied on the first phase-bit and the second phase-bit simultaneously by launching a wave into the phononic structure.