Tiantian Zhang

We employed ab initio calculations to identify a class of crystalline materials of MSi (M=Fe, Co, Mn, Re, Ru) having double-Weyl points in both their acoustic and optical phonon spectra. They exhibit novel topological points termed "spin-1 Weyl point" at the Brillouin zone center and "charge-2 Dirac point" at the zone corner. The corresponding gapless surface phonon dispersions are two helicoidal sheets whose isofrequency contours form a single noncontractible loop in the surface Brillouin zone.

H3K27ac is well recognized as a marker for active enhancers and a great indicator of enhancer activity. However, its functional impact on transcription has not been characterized. By substituting lysine 27 in histone variant H3.3 with arginine in mouse embryonic stem cells, we diminish the vast majority of H3K27ac at enhancers. However, the transcriptome is largely undisturbed in these mutant cells, likely because the other enhancer features remain largely unchanged, including chromatin accessib

Topological semimetals are characterized by symmetry-protected band crossings, which can be preserved in different dimensions in momentum space, forming zero-dimensional nodal points, one-dimensional nodal lines, or even two-dimensional nodal surfaces. Materials harboring nodal points and nodal lines have been experimentally verified, whereas experimental evidence of nodal surfaces is still lacking. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we reveal the coexistence of Dirac

While condensed matter systems host both fermionic and bosonic quasiparticles, reliably predicting and empirically verifying topological states is only mature for Fermionic electronic structures, leaving topological Bosonic excitations sporadically explored. This is unfortunate, as Bosonic systems such as phonons offer the opportunity to assess spinless band structures where nodal lines can be realized without invoking special additional symetries to protect against spin-orbit coupling. Here we

Unlike conventional Weyl nodes, unconventional ones carry a quantized monopole charge $\mathcal{C}>1$, and their existence needs the protection of crystalline symmetries in addition to translation symmetry. There have been many studies on unconventional Weyl nodes, yet we have so far missed one, which is the twofold Weyl node with $\mathcal{C}=4$. In this paper, we study the relationship between the winding number and pseudospin texture in all twofold Weyl nodes, and offer an intuitive way to

The authors generalize the definition of pseudo-angular momentum to systems with screw rotation symmetry and find pseudo-angular momentum becomes q-dependent non-integers but is still an observable quantity.

Chirality is an indispensable concept that pervades fundamental science and nature, manifesting itself in diverse forms, <i>e</i>.<i>g</i>., quasiparticles, and crystal structures. Of particular interest are Weyl phonons carrying specific Chern numbers and chiral phonons doing circular motions. Up to now, they have been studied independently and the interpretations of chirality seem to be different in these two concepts, impeding our understanding. Here, we demonstrate that they are entangled in

Abstract Topological semimetals are a frontier of quantum materials. In multiband electronic systems, topological band crossings can form closed curves, known as nodal lines. In the presence of spin–orbit coupling and/or symmetry-breaking operations, topological nodal lines can break into Dirac/Weyl nodes and give rise to interesting transport properties, such as the chiral anomaly and giant anomalous Hall effect. Recently, the time-reversal symmetry-breaking induced Weyl fermions are observed i

This paper proposes a recursive protocol that infers the topological information of band degeneracies crossing high-symmetry lines by just calculating the symmetry data at several high-symmetry momenta, instead of a heavy numerical calculation. Two materials are used for the demonstration of the recursive algorithm, one is In2Te having ideal Weyl phonons and the other is ZrSiO having node-cage phonons