Figure | 1 A 3D Dirac sonic crystal and its transition to a Weyl sonic crystal. (IMAGE)
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a, A 3D Dirac sonic crystal and its transition to a Weyl sonic crystal. a Photograph of the 3D Dirac sonic crystal. b,c Geometry of the unit cells for b the 3D Dirac sonic crystal and c the Weyl sonic crystal with additional chiral hopping tubes. The insets of b and c show top-view images of the 3D Dirac and Weyl sonic crystals. One unit cell is outlined with a red hexagon for each sonic crystal. d The Brillouin zone (BZ) of the 3D Dirac sonic crystal. e The band structure of the 3D Dirac sonic crystal where a Dirac point (DP) is located on . f Tight-binding model of the 3D Dirac sonic crystal, including nearest-neighbour hopping and next-nearest-neighbour hopping. g The BZ of the Weyl sonic crystal, where each 3D Dirac point splits into a pair of Weyl points, WP1 and WP2, with charges of +1 and -1, respectively. h The band structure of the Weyl sonic crystal. States with positive orbital angular momentum (OAM) and negative OAM are represented by red and blue lines, respectively. i Additional chiral interlayer coupling in the Weyl sonic crystal. The arrows represent the direction of positive phase hopping.
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by Boyang Xie, Hui Liu, Hua Cheng, Zhengyou Liu, Jianguo Tian, and Shuqi Chen
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