Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Discovery of a maximally charged Weyl point

  • Qiaolu Chen,
  • Fujia Chen,
  • Yuang Pan,
  • Chaoxi Cui,
  • Qinghui Yan,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Zhen Gao,
  • Shengyuan A. Yang,
  • Zhi-Ming Yu,
  • Hongsheng Chen,
  • Baile Zhang,
  • Yihao Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34978-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Here the authors experimentally demonstrate a maximally charged Weyl point in a three dimensional photonic crystal, with topological charge of four — the maximal charge number that a two-fold Weyl point can host, which supports quadruple-helicoid Fermi arcs