Weyl phonons in chiral crystals

T Zhang, Z Huang, Z Pan, L Du, G Zhang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chirality is an indispensable concept that pervades fundamental science and nature,
manifesting itself in diverse forms, eg, quasiparticles, and crystal structures. Of particular …

Abundant surface-semimetal phases in three-dimensional obstructed atomic insulators

X Ding, X Jin, Z Chen, X Lv, DS Ma, X Wu, R Wang - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Three-dimensional obstructed atomic insulators (OAIs) are characterized by the appearance
of floating surface states (FSSs) at specific surfaces. Benefiting from this feature, our study …

Machine learning one-dimensional spinless trapped fermionic systems with neural-network quantum states

JWT Keeble, M Drissi, A Rojo-Francàs, B Juliá-Díaz… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We compute the ground-state properties of fully polarized, trapped, one-dimensional
fermionic systems interacting through a Gaussian potential. We use an antisymmetric …

Superconductivity in unconventional metals

Z Yang, H Sheng, Z Guo, R Zhang, Q Wu… - npj Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
Based on first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that 1H/2H-phase transition metal
dichalcogenides MX 2 (M= Nb, Ta; X= S, Se, Te) are unconventional metals, which have an …

Magnetic field filtering of the boundary supercurrent in unconventional metal NiTe2-based Josephson junctions

T Le, R Zhang, C Li, R Jiang, H Sheng, L Tu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Topological materials with boundary (surface/edge/hinge) states have attracted tremendous
research interest. Additionally, unconventional (obstructed atomic) materials have recently …

Observation of edge states derived from topological helix chains

K Nakayama, A Tokuyama, K Yamauchi, A Moriya… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Introducing the concept of topology has revolutionized materials classification, leading to the
discovery of topological insulators and Dirac–Weyl semimetals,–. One of the most …

Coupling between the spatially separated magnetism and the topological band revealed by magnetotransport measurements on

Y Xia, L Wang, Y Zhu, L Zhang, Y Liu, X Wu, L Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We study the coupling between topological bands and two distinct magnetic sublattices in
EuMn 1− x Zn x Sb 2 (0≤ x≤ 1) using a combination of magnetotransport measurements …

Topology of chalcogen chains

A Kłosiński, W Brzezicki, A Lau, CE Agrapidis, AM Oleś… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We investigate the topological properties of the helical atomic chains occurring in elemental
selenium and tellurium. We postulate a realistic model that includes spin-orbit interaction …

Excitonic Instability in Ta2Pd3Te5

J Yao, H Sheng, R Zhang, Q Wu, H Weng, X Dai… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
By systematic theoretical calculations, we have revealed an excitonic insulator (EI) in a van
der Waals layered compound $\rm {Ta_ {2} Pd_ {3} Te_5} $. First-principles calculations …

Unconventional phonon spectra and obstructed edge phonon modes

R Zhang, H Sheng, J Deng, Z Fang, Z Yang… - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
Based on the elementary band representations (EBR), many topologically trivial materials
are classified as unconventional ones (obstructed atomic limit), where the EBR …