Abstract
Conventional Weyl nodes are twofold band crossings that carry a unit monopole charge, which can exist in condensed matter systems with the protection of translation symmetry. Unconventional Weyl nodes are twofold/multifold band crossings carrying a quantized monopole charge larger than one, and their existence needs the protection of additional crystalline symmetries. Studies on unconventional Weyl nodes are already very comprehensive, such as twofold Weyl nodes with Chern number of C=2/C=3 and fourfold/sixfoldWeyl nodes with C=4. Yet in this paper, we propose a newfound twofold unconventional Weyl node with C=4, which can exist in any chiral cubic systems with integer spin. Such kind of twofold quadruple Weyl node has a cubic band dispersion along [111] direction and will evolve into a fourfold quadruple Weyl node after considering spin-orbit coupling. In this paper, we exhaust all the possible chiral cubic space groups and corresponding k-points, which can have twofold quadruple Weyl nodes. We also propose a series of LaIrSi-type materials that both have twofold quadruple Weyl nodes in electronic systems and the phonon spectra.
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