The complete band representations(BRs)have been constructed in the work of topological quantum chemistry.Each BR is expressed by either a localized orbital at a Wyckoff site in real space,or by a set of irreducible re...The complete band representations(BRs)have been constructed in the work of topological quantum chemistry.Each BR is expressed by either a localized orbital at a Wyckoff site in real space,or by a set of irreducible representations in momentum space.In this work,we define unconventional materials with a common feature of the mismatch between average electronic centers and atomic positions.They can be effectively diagnosed as whose occupied bands can be expressed as a sum of elementary BRs(eBRs),but not a sum of atomic-orbital-induced BRs(aBRs).The existence of an essential BR at an empty site is described by nonzero real-space invariants(RSIs).The"valence"states can be derived by the aBR decomposition,and unconventional materials are supposed to have an uncompensated total"valence"state.The high-throughput screening for unconventional materials has been performed through the first-principles calculations.We have discovered 423 unconventional compounds,including thermoelectronic materials,higher-order topological insulators,electrides,hydrogen storage materials,hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalysts,electrodes,and superconductors.The diversity of these interesting properties and applications would be widely studied in the future.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11974395 and 12188101)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB33000000)+6 种基金the Center for Materials Genomesupport from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant Nos.2016YFA0300600 and 2018YFA0305700the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No.XDB28000000the Science Challenge Project(TZ2016004)the K.C.Wong Education Foundation(GJTD-2018-01)Beijing Municipal Science&Technology Commission(Z181100004218001)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Z180008)。
文摘The complete band representations(BRs)have been constructed in the work of topological quantum chemistry.Each BR is expressed by either a localized orbital at a Wyckoff site in real space,or by a set of irreducible representations in momentum space.In this work,we define unconventional materials with a common feature of the mismatch between average electronic centers and atomic positions.They can be effectively diagnosed as whose occupied bands can be expressed as a sum of elementary BRs(eBRs),but not a sum of atomic-orbital-induced BRs(aBRs).The existence of an essential BR at an empty site is described by nonzero real-space invariants(RSIs).The"valence"states can be derived by the aBR decomposition,and unconventional materials are supposed to have an uncompensated total"valence"state.The high-throughput screening for unconventional materials has been performed through the first-principles calculations.We have discovered 423 unconventional compounds,including thermoelectronic materials,higher-order topological insulators,electrides,hydrogen storage materials,hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalysts,electrodes,and superconductors.The diversity of these interesting properties and applications would be widely studied in the future.
