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Nonperturbative Nonlinear Hall Effect in Nonequilibrium Steady States

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-07-01 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The nonlinear Hall effect in quantum materials has attracted broad interest, yet most existing studies focus on the weak-field, perturbative regime. Here we develop a nonperturbative approach based on nonequilibrium steady-state Green's functions for dc-field-driven lattice systems, with dissipation and interactions incorporated through self-energies beyond the constant relaxation-time approximation and interband transitions treated alongside their intraband counterparts. Applied to a two-band semimetal model, our approach provides direct access to the strong-field Hall response beyond the nonperturbative crossover where the edge of the nonequilibrium distribution reaches Berry-curvature hot spots, a regime in which constant relaxation-time estimates and Berry curvature dipole calculations become unreliable. We further demonstrate that interaction and electron-phonon self-energies within dynamical mean-field theory can substantially change the Hall signal. Our framework enables quantitative simulations of nonequilibrium nonlinear Hall phenomena and provides guidance for strong-field transport experiments.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.01519,
  title  = {Nonperturbative Nonlinear Hall Effect in Nonequilibrium Steady States},
  author = {Lei Geng and Martin Eckstein and Lei Chen and Shouvik Sur and Silke Paschen and Qimiao Si and Philipp Werner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.01519},
  year   = {2026}
}
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