• Letter

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

Guangqian Ding, Chengwu Xie, Jingbo Bai, Zhenxiang Cheng, Xiaotian Wang, and Weikang Wu
Phys. Rev. B 108, L020302 – Published 7 July 2023
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Abstract

Recently, Wang et al. [Phys. Rev. B 106, 195129 (2022)] challenged a widely held belief in the field of Weyl physics, demonstrating that single-pair-Weyl points (SP-WPs) can exist in nonmagnetic spinless systems, contrary to previous assumptions that they could only exist in magnetic systems. Wang et al. observed that the SP-WPs with opposite and even chiral charges (i.e., |C| = 2 or 4) could also exist in nonmagnetic spinless systems. In this Letter, we present a finding in which SP-WPs have a partner, namely a charged nodal surface, in nonmagnetic spinless systems. In contrast to previous observations, we show that the SP-WPs can have uneven chiral charges (i.e., |C| = 1). We identify six (out of 230) space groups (SGs) that contain such SP-WPs by searching the encyclopedia of emergent particles in three-dimensional crystals. Our finds were confirmed through the phonon spectra of two specific materials Zr3O (with SG 182) and NaPH3NO3 (with SG 173). This discovery broadens the range of materials that can host SP-WPs and applies to other nonmagnetic spinless crystals.

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  • Received 11 April 2023
  • Revised 3 June 2023
  • Accepted 26 June 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.L020302

©2023 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Guangqian Ding1,2,*, Chengwu Xie2,*, Jingbo Bai2, Zhenxiang Cheng3,†, Xiaotian Wang2,‡, and Weikang Wu4,§

  • 1School of Science, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
  • 2School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
  • 3Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM), University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2500, Australia
  • 4Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250061, China

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • Corresponding author: cheng@uow.edu.au
  • Corresponding author: xiaotianwang@swu.edu.cn
  • §Corresponding author: weikang_wu@sdu.edu.cn

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Vol. 108, Iss. 2 — 1 July 2023

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