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Detection of quantum geometric tensor by nonlinear optical response

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2021-10-25 v1 Materials Science Optics

Abstract

Quantum geometric tensor (QGT), including a symmetric real part defined as quantum metric and an antisymmetric part defined as Berry curvature, is essential for understanding many phenomena. We studied the photogalvanic effect of a multiple-band system with time-reversal-invariant symmetry by theoretical analysis in this work. We concluded that the integral of gradient of the symmetric part of QGT in momentum space is related to the linearly photogalvanic effect, while the integral of gradient of Berry curvature is related to the circularly photogalvanic effect. Our work afforded an alternative interpretation for the photogalvanic effect in the view of QGT, and a simple approach to detect the QGT by nonlinear optical response.

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@article{arxiv.2007.02481,
  title  = {Detection of quantum geometric tensor by nonlinear optical response},
  author = {Zhi Li and Takami Tohyama and Toshiaki Iitaka and Haibin Su and Haibo Zeng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.02481},
  year   = {2021}
}

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