Weyl points in a magnetic tetrahedral photonic crystal

Weyl points have recently been predicted and experimentally observed in double-gyroid photonic crystals, as well as in other complex photonic structures such as stacked hexagonal-lattice slabs and helical waveguide arrays. In all above structures, the Weyl points are located between high frequency bands, and are difficult to probe experimentally. In this work, we show that a photonic crystal with a simple tetrahedral structure can host frequency-isolated Weyl points between the second and third bands. The minimal number of two Weyl points emerges from a threefold quadratic degeneracy at the Brillouin zone corner when time-reversal symmetry is broken. We verify theoretically that the Weyl points carry opposite topological charges, and are associated with Fermi arc-like surface states. This photonic crystal can be realized using ferromagnetic rods in the microwave frequency regime, providing a simple platform for studying the physics of Weyl points.