Artificial intelligence: A powerful paradigm for scientific research

Y Xu, X Liu, X Cao, C Huang, E Liu, S Qian, X Liu… - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) coupled with promising machine learning (ML) techniques well
known from computer science is broadly affecting many aspects of various fields including …

Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage

H Luo, P Yu, G Li, K Yan - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Topological quantum materials (TQMs) have symmetry-protected band structures with useful
electronic properties that have applications in information, sensing, energy and other …

Topological nodal line phonons: Recent advances in materials realization

X Wang, T Yang, Z Cheng, G Surucu, J Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The topological phenomenon has been extensively studied in condensed matter physics
and has attracted much attention in many different fields. Like electrons, phonons can also …

Direct observation of topological phonons in graphene

J Li, J Li, J Tang, Z Tao, S Xue, J Liu, H Peng… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Phonons, as the most fundamental emergent bosons in condensed matter systems, play an
essential role in the thermal, mechanical, and electronic properties of crystalline materials …

Exotic topological phonon modes in semiconductors: Symmetry analysis and first-principles calculations for representative examples

G Ding, C Xie, J Gong, J Wang, J Bai, W Wang, D Li… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Nowadays, it is recognized that semiconductors are prospective candidates for promising
thermoelectric materials and the gapless topological phonon modes can result in a high …

Charge-two Weyl phonons with type-III dispersion

G Ding, F Zhou, Z Zhang, ZM Yu, X Wang - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In recent years, charge-two Weyl point phonons (WPPs) have attracted increasing attention.
Charge-two WPPs not only provide a new platform for realizing phonon-based …

Recipe for single-pair-Weyl-points phonons carrying the same chiral charges

G Ding, C Xie, J Bai, Z Cheng, X Wang, W Wu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Recently, Wang et al.[Phys. Rev. B 106, 195129 (2022) 2469-9950 10.1103/PhysRevB.
106.195129] challenged a widely held belief in the field of Weyl physics, demonstrating that …

Topological phonons in Cs-Te binary systems

Y Yang, J Wang, Y Liu, Y Cui, G Ding, X Wang - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In this paper, we used symmetry analyses and first-principles calculations to discover seven
Cs-Te binary systems that have different crystal structures and can host symmetry-enforced …

Two-nodal surface phonons in solid-state materials

C Xie, H Yuan, Y Liu, X Wang - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
This year, researchers have been on the lookout for real materials with one-nodal, two-nodal
(two-NS), and three-nodal surface phonons. However, materials with two-NS phonons have …

Dirac phonons in two-dimensional materials

J Gong, J Wang, H Yuan, Z Zhang, W Wang, X Wang - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Phonons are an ideal platform for realizing stable spinless two-dimensional (2D) Dirac
points because they have a bosonic nature and hard-to-break time-reversal symmetry. It …