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The coupling between internal degrees of freedom of quantum systems and their overall motion in an external gravitational field plays a central role in multiple extensions of Einstein's equivalence principle to quantum physics. While…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Thomas B. Mieling

We describe the theory of the dynamics of atoms in two-dimensional quasicrystalline optical lattices. We focus on a regime of shallow lattice depths under which the applied force can cause Landau-Zener tunneling past a dense hierarchy of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-17 Stephen Spurrier , Nigel R. Cooper

Quantum evolution of particles under strong fields can be essentially captured by a small number of quantum trajectories that satisfy the stationary phase condition in the Dirac-Feynmann path integrals. The quantum trajectories are the key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Fan Yang , Ren-Bao Liu

We derive the semiclassical equations of motion of a transverse acoustical wave packet propagating in a phononic crystal subject to slowly varying perturbations. The formalism gives rise to Berry effect terms in the equations of motion,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Torabi , M. Mehrafarin

We present a comprehensive analytical study that extends the conventional formulation of Berry curvature, highlighting its derivation in the context of problematic domains of definition of the operators. Our analysis reveals that handling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Georgios Konstantinou , Konstantinos Moulopoulos

Berry phase plays an important role in many non-trivial phenomena over a broad range of many-body systems. In this thesis we focus on the Berry phase due to the change of the particles' momenta, and study its effects in free and interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 Jing-Yuan Chen

We consider the Doubly Special Relativity (DSR) generalization of Dirac equation in an external potential in the Magueijo-Smolin base. The particles obey a modified energy-momentum dispersion relation. The semiclassical diagonalization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierre Gosselin , Alain Berard , Herve Mohrbach , Subir Ghosh

It is well-known that Dirac particles gain geometric phase, namely Berry phase, while moving in an electromagnetic field. Researchers have already shown covariant formalism for the Berry connection due to an electromagnetic field. A similar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-12 Achal Kumar , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

In quantum mechanics, a quantum wavepacket may acquire a geometrical phase as it evolves along a cyclic trajectory in parameter space. In condensed matter systems, the Berry phase plays a crucial role in fundamental phenomena such as the…

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

We propose a pair of the complex Berry curvatures associated with the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and its Hermitian adjoint to reveal new physics in non-Hermitian systems. We give the complex Berry curvature and Berry phase for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Annan Fan , Guang-Yao Huang , Shi-Dong Liang

We propose a modified Boltzmann nonlinear electric-transport framework which differs from the nonlinear generalization of the linear Boltzmann formalism by a contribution that has no counterpart in linear response. This contribution follows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Cong Xiao , Z. Z. Du , Qian Niu

Adiabatic time evolution of degenerate eigenstates of a quantum system provides a means for controlling electronic states since mixing between degenerate levels generates a matrix Berry phase. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. -R. Eric Yang

We present a systematic microscopic derivation of the semiclassical Boltzmann equation for band structures with the finite Berry curvature based on Keldysh technique of nonequilibrium systems. In the analysis, an ac electrical driving field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

Starting with the generally well accepted opinion that quantizing an arbitrary Hamiltonian system involves picking out some additional structure on the classical phase space (the {\sl shadow} of quantum mechanics in the classical theory),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. R. Klauder , P. Maraner

Quantum geometry governs a wide range of transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials. Recent works have explored analogue electromagnetism and gravity in terms of the quantum geometric tensor, whose real and imaginary parts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Maranzana , Koki Shinada , Ying-Ming Xie , Sergey Artyukhin , Naoto Nagaosa

Recent results on the semiclassical dynamics of an electron in a solid are explained using techniques developed for ``exotic'' Galilean dynamics. The system is indeed Hamiltonian and Liouville's theorem holds for the symplectic volume form.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Duval , Z. Horvath , P. A. Horvathy , L. Martina , P. Stichel

Different routes towards the canonical formulation of a classical theory result in different canonically equivalent Hamiltonians, while their quantum counterparts are related through appropriate unitary transformation. However, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Abhik Kumar Sanyal

We have extended the semi-classical theory to include a general account of matrix valued Hamiltonians, i.e. those that describe quantum systems with internal degrees of freedoms, based on a generalization of the Gutzwiller trace formula for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 M. Vogl , O. Pankratov , S. Shallcross

The evolution of a quantum system is governed by the associated Hamiltonian. A system defined by a parameter-dependent Hamiltonian acquires a geometric phase when adiabatically evolved. Such an adiabatic evolution of a system having…