# Acoustic Band Gap and Coherent Behavior in a Periodic Two-Dimensional System

## Figure Captions

(a) Acoustic bands for a square lattice of air-cylinders for $`\beta =10^3`$. A complete band gap lies between the two horizontal dashed lines. (b) The dependence of the complete band gap on the cylinder concentration $`\beta `$.

The left column: The phase diagram for the two dimensional phase vectors defined in the text. Right column: The spatial distribution of acoustic energy. For brevity, 200 cylinders are considered in the computation. In the plot of the energy distribution, the geometrical spreading factor has been removed. Note that in the case of $`ka=0.01`$ there are a few phase vectors which do not point to the same direction as the others because of the effect of the finite boundary; when the cylinder number goes to infinity, this effect disappears.

Acknowledgments. The work received support from the National Central University and the National Science Council.

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Email : zhen@joule.phy.ncu.edu.tw