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Weyl points are point degeneracies that occur in momentum space of periodic materials, and are associated with a quantized topological charge. We experimentally observe in a 3D micro-printed photonic crystal that a charge-2 Weyl point can…

Weyl points, serving as monopoles in the momentum space and laying the foundation of topological gapless phases, have recently been experimentally demonstrated in various physical systems. However, none of the observed Weyl degeneracies are…

We study the topological properties of magnon excitations in a wide class of three dimensional (3D) honeycomb lattices with ferromagnetic ground states. It is found that they host nodal ring magnon excitations. These rings locate on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Kangkang Li , Jiangping Hu

Topological semimetal states having the minimal number, i.e., only a single pair, of Weyl points are desirable for the study of effects associated with chiral topological charges. So far, the search for such states is focused on magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-30 Xiaotian Wang , Feng Zhou , Zeying Zhang , Weikang Wu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Shengyuan A. Yang

We introduce feedback-measurement technologies to achieve flexible control of Weyl points and conduct the first experimental demonstration of Weyl type I-II transition in mechanical systems. We demonstrate that non-Hermiticity can expand…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Mingsheng Tian , Ivan Velkovsky , Tao Chen , Fengxiao Sun , Qiongyi He , Bryce Gadway

Characterized by the absence of inversion symmetry, non-centrosymmetric materials are of great interest because they exhibit ferroelectricity, second harmonic generation, emergent Weyl fermions, and other fascinating phenomena. It is…

Weyl semimetals are gapless three-dimensional topological materials where two bands touch at even number of points in the Brillouin zone. In this work we study a zincblende lattice model realizing a time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetal.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Teemu Ojanen

Weyl points and line nodes are three-dimensional linear point- and line-degeneracies between two bands. In contrast to Dirac points, which are their two-dimensional analogues, Weyl points are stable in the momentum space and the associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Ling Lu , Liang Fu , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

We study the occurrence of symmetry-enforced topological band crossings in tetragonal crystals with strong spin-orbit coupling. By computing the momentum dependence of the symmetry eigenvalues and the global band topology in the entire…

In this work we explore the effects of nonlinearity on three-dimensional topological phases. Of particular interest are the so-called Weyl semimetals, known for their Weyl nodes, i.e., point-like topological charges which always exist in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Thomas Tuloup , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

In time-reversal symmetry-broken Weyl semimetals, Weyl points act as monopoles and antimonopoles of the Berry curvature, with a monopole-antimonopole pair producing a net zero Berry flux. The two-dimensional (2D) planes that separate a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Alexander C. Tyner , Shouvik Sur

Multipolar orderings in degenerate orbital systems offer unique opportunities for emergent topological phases. The phase diagram of interacting spinless fermions in a $p$-band diamond lattice at unit filling is first studied to elucidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-08 Hua Chen , Congjun Wu , X. C. Xie

By using first-principles calculations, we propose that WC-type ZrTe is a new type of topological semimetal (TSM). It has six pairs of chiral Weyl nodes in its first Brillouin zone, but it is distinguished from other existing TSMs by having…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Hongming Weng , Chen Fang , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai

Following the discovery of topological insulators (TIs), topological Dirac/Weyl semimetal has attracted much recent interest. A prevailing mechanism for the formation of Weyl points is by breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) or spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 Yinong Zhou , Kyung-Hwan Jin , Huaqing Huang , Zhengfei Wang , Feng Liu

Due to studies in nonequilibrium (periodically-driven) topological matter, it is now understood that some topological invariants used to classify equilibrium states of matter do not suffice to describe their nonequilibrium counterparts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Muhammad Umer , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

In the rapidly expanding field of topological materials there is growing interest in systems whose topological electronic band features can be induced or controlled by magnetism. Magnetic Weyl semimetals, which contain linear band crossings…

Weyl fermions1 do not appear in nature as elementary particles, but they are now found to exist as nodal points in the band structure of electronic and classical wave crystals. Novel phenomena such as Fermi arcs and chiral anomaly have…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-17 Qiang Wang , Meng Xiao , Hui Liu , Xiangang Wan , Shining Zhu , C. T. Chan

We investigate a three-dimensional (3D) topological phase resembling a Weyl semimetal, modulated by a periodic potential and engineered through Floquet dynamics. This system is constructed by stacking two-dimensional Chern insulators and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Fang Qin , Rui Chen

In this work, we investigate the emergence of Weyl points in an inversion symmetry-breaking 1T-NiTe$_2$ system. Through first-principles calculations based on the density functional theory combined with tight-binding methods, we find three…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-19 Marcos G. O. Junior , Augusto L. Araújo , Emmanuel V. C. Lopes , Tome M. Schmidt

We demonstrate that a Weyl point, widely examined in 3D Weyl semimetals and superfluids, can develop a pair of non-degenerate gapless spheres. Such a bouquet of two spheres is characterized by three distinct topological invariants of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-14 Yong Xu , Fan Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang