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Geometric orbital magnetization in adiabatic processes

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-08-12 v2

Abstract

We consider periodic adiabatic processes of gapped many-body spinless electrons. We find an additional contribution to the orbital magnetization due to the adiabatic time evolution, dubbed \textit{geometric} orbital magnetization, which can be expressed as derivative of the many-body Berry phase with respect to an external magnetic field. For two-dimensional band insulators, we show that the geometric orbital magnetization generally consists of two pieces, the topological piece that is expressed as third Chern-Simons form in (t,kx,ky)(t,k_x,k_y) space, and the non-topological piece that depends on Bloch states and energies of both occupied and unoccupied bands.

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@article{arxiv.1904.11394,
  title  = {Geometric orbital magnetization in adiabatic processes},
  author = {Luka Trifunovic and Seishiro Ono and Haruki Watanabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.11394},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Published version with few typos corrected. 15 pages, 5 figures

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