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We present an ab-initio real-time-based computational approach to study nonlinear optical properties in condensed matter systems that is especially suitable for crystalline solids and periodic nanostructures. The equations of motion and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-13 C. Attaccalite , M. Grüning

Several emergent phenomena and phases in solids arise from configurations of the electronic Berry phase in momentum space that are similar to gauge field configurations in real space such as magnetic monopoles. We show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-07 Shudan Zhong , Joseph Orenstein , Joel E. Moore

The well-known geometric phase present in the quantum adiabatic evolution discovered by Berry many years ago has its analogue, the Hannay phase, in the classical domain.We calculate the Berry phase with examples for quantum hermitian and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 H. Fanchiotti , C. A. Garcia Canal , M. Mayosky , A. Veiga , V. Vento

Berry phases strongly affect the properties of crystalline materials, giving rise to modifications of the semiclassical equations of motion that govern wave-packet dynamics. In non-Hermitian systems, generalizations of the Berry connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Navot Silberstein , Jan Behrends , Moshe Goldstein , Roni Ilan

We present a geometric characterization of the ferrotoroidic moment in terms of a set of Abelian Berry phases. We also introduce a fundamental complex quantity which provides an alternative way to calculate the ferrotoroidic moment and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 C. D. Batista , G. Ortiz , A. A. Aligia

Methods of angular momenta are modified and used to solve some actual problems in quantum mechanics. In particular, we re-derive some known formulas for analytical and numerical calculations of matrix elements of the vector physical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Alexei M. Frolov

We explicitly compute the geometrical Berry phase for the noncommutative gravitational quantum well for different SW maps. We find that they lead to different partial contributions to the Berry phase. For the most general map we obtain that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bastos , O. Bertolami

We study a system of strongly interacting one-dimensional (1D) bosons on a ring pierced by a synthetic magnetic flux tube. By the Fermi-Bose mapping, this system is related to the system of spin-polarized non-interacting electrons confined…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-24 Marija Todorić , Bruno Klajn , Dario Jukić , Hrvoje Buljan

We propose the semiclassical quantization for complicated electron systems governed by a many-band Hamiltonian. An explicit analytical expression of the corresponding Berry phase is derived. This impact allows us to evaluate the Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 A. Yu. Ozerin , L. A. Falkovsky

The Berry phase is a geometric phase acquired during adiabatic evolution over a closed loop in parameter space. It plays an essential role in geometric quantum gates and other phase-based protocols. In non-Hermitian systems, the Berry phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pratik J. Barge , Qian Cao , Niklas Hörnedal , Aurélia Chenu , Kater W. Murch

We solve the stationary Schr\"odinger equation for a particle confined to a 3D spherical wedge -- the region $\{(r,\theta,\phi): 0 \leq r \leq R,\, 0 \leq \theta \leq \pi,\, 0 \leq \phi \leq \Phi\}$ with Dirichlet BCs on all surfaces. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Mustafa Bakr , Smain Amari

We study the energy level structure of two-dimensional charged particles in inhomogeneous magnetic fields. In particular, for magnetic anti-dots the magnetic field is zero inside the dot and constant outside. Such a device can be fabricated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Kocsis , G. Palla , J. Cserti

We introduce a class of topological pairing orders characterized by a half-integer pair monopole charge, leading to Berry phase enforced half-integer partial wave symmetry. This exotic spinor order emerges from pairing between Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-06 Yi Li , Grayson R. Frazier

Berry's connection is computed in the USp(2k) matrix model. In T dualized quantum mechanics, the Berry phase exhibits a residual interaction taking place at a distance m_(f) from the orientifold surface via the integration of the fermions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Itoyama , T. Matsuo

For a quantum system subject to external parameters, the Berry phase is an intra-level property, which is gauge invariant module $2\pi$ for a closed loop in the parameter space and generally is non-quantized. In contrast, we define a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-30 Chao Xu , Jianda Wu , Congjun Wu

Taking resort to Haldane's spherical geometry we can visualize fractional quantum Hall effect on the noncommutative manifold $M_4 \times Z_N$ with $N>2$ and odd. The discrete space leads to the deformation of symplectic structure of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Basu , P. Bandyopadhyay

Berry phase physics is closely related to a number of topological states of matter. Recently discovered topological semimetals are believed to host a nontrivial $\pi$ Berry phase to induce a phase shift of $\pm 1/8$ in the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 C. M. Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

The question how to quantize a classical system where an angle phi is one of the basic canonical variables has been controversial since the early days of quantum mechanics. The problem is that the angle is a multivalued or discontinuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. A. Kastrup

In translationally invariant semiconductors that host exciton bound states, one can define an infinite number of possible exciton Berry connections. These correspond to the different ways in which a many-body exciton state, at fixed total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Henry Davenport , Johannes Knolle , Frank Schindler

We present a unified theory for wave-packet dynamics of electrons in crystals subject to perturbations varying slowly in space and time. We derive the wave-packet energy up to the first order gradient correction and obtain all kinds of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ganesh Sundaram , Qian Niu