Experimental perspective on three-dimensional topological semimetals

BQ Lv, T Qian, H Ding - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Topological semimetals (TSMs) are characterized by bulk band crossings in their electronic
structures, which are expected to give rise to gapless electronic excitations and topological …

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 …

Encyclopedia of emergent particles in three-dimensional crystals

ZM Yu, Z Zhang, GB Liu, W Wu, XP Li, RW Zhang… - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in exploring emergent particles in
condensed matter systems. Novel particles, emerged as excitations around exotic band …

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 …

Emerging theory and phenomena in thermal conduction: A selective review

J Chen, J He, D Pan, X Wang, N Yang, J Zhu… - Science China Physics …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, emerging phonon phenomena have been discovered and rapidly developed,
which have become an active hot research topic. In this review article, we present state-of …

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-dimensional Weyl nodal-line semimetal in a ferromagnetic monolayer with a high Curie temperature

L Jin, X Zhang, Y Liu, X Dai, X Shen, L Wang, G Liu - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Nodal-line semimetals in two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted intense attention
recently. From fundamental physics and spintronic application points of view, high Curie …

Ferromagnetic hybrid nodal loop and switchable type-I and type-II Weyl fermions in two dimensions

T He, X Zhang, Y Liu, X Dai, G Liu, ZM Yu, Y Yao - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
As a novel type of fermionic state, the hybrid nodal loop with the coexistence of both type-I
and type-II band crossings has attracted intense research interest. However, it remains a …

Realizing exceptional points of any order in the presence of symmetry

S Sayyad, FK Kunst - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
Exceptional points (EPs) appear as degeneracies in the spectrum of non-Hermitian matrices
at which the eigenvectors coalesce. In general, an EP of order n may find room to emerge if …

Hybrid-type nodal ring phonons and coexistence of higher-order quadratic nodal line phonons in an AgZr alloy

F Zhou, Z Zhang, H Chen, M Kuang, T Yang, X Wang - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Nodal line states in electronic systems can be classified based on the order of dispersion
around a band degeneracy (ie, linear, quadratic, or cubic) and the various slopes of crossing …