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In this letter, we elaborate on the identification and construction of the differential geometric elements underlying Berry's phase. Berry bundles are built generally from the physical data of the quantum system under study. We apply this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-06-11 Alejandro Cabrera

In recent years it has become clear that electronic Berry curvature (BC) is a key concept to understand and predict physical properties of crystalline materials. A wealth of interesting Hall-type responses in charge, spin and heat transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Dennis Wawrzik , Jorge I. Facio , Jeroen van den Brink

Motivated by a recent proposal on the possibility of observing a monopole in the band structure, and by an increasing interest on the role of Berry phase in spintronics, we studied the adiabatic motion of a wave packet of Bloch functions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 Ryuichi Shindou , Ken-Ichiro Imura

For a long period of time, we have been seeking how Berry curvature influnces the transport properties in materials breaking time-reversal symmetry. In time-reversal symmetric material, there will be no thermoelectric current induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Hongchao Li

Applying adiabatic, cyclic two parameter modulations we investigate quantum heat transfer across an anharmonic molecular junction contacted with two heat baths. We demonstrate that the pumped heat typically exhibits a Berry phase effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-03 Jie Ren , Peter Hänggi , Baowen Li

Under symmetry breaking, a three-dimensional nodal-line semimetal can turn into a topological insulator or Weyl semimetal, accompanied by the generation of momentum-space Berry curvature. We develop a theory that unifies their circular…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-31 Ying Liu , Shengyuan A. Yang , Fan Zhang

The effect of fluctuations in the classical control parameters on the Berry phase of a spin 1/2 interacting with a adiabatically cyclically varying magnetic field is analyzed. It is explicitly shown that in the adiabatic limit dephasing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriele De Chiara , G. Massimo Palma

A physically transparent and mathematically simple semiclassical model is employed to examine dynamics in the central-spin problem. The results reproduce a number of previous findings obtained by various quantum approaches and, at the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Tomasz Dietl

Unusual electronic property of a Weyl semi-metallic nanowire is revealed. Its band dispersion exhibits multiple subbands of partially flat dispersion, originating from the Fermi arc states. Remarkably, the lowest energy flat subbands bear a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yositake Takane

The phase relation between quantum states represents an essential resource for the storage and processing of quantum information. While quantum phases are commonly controlled dynamically by tuning energetic interactions, utilizing geometric…

We show that the impact of the fundamental length in quantum mechanics can be studied within the formalism of Berry's geometrical phase with the line broadening as a resulting physical effect.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Palle

The geometric phase has been proposed as a candidate for noise resilient coherent manipulation of fragile quantum systems. Since it is determined only by the path of the quantum state, the presence of noise fluctuations affects the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 S. Filipp , J. Klepp , Y. Hasegawa , C. Plonka-Spehr , U. Schmidt , P. Geltenbort , H. Rauch

By means of finite size exact diagonalization we theoretically study the electronic many-body effects on the nearly flat-band structure with time-reversal symmetry in a checkerboard lattice model and identify the topological nature of two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-12 Wei Li , D. N. Sheng , C. S. Ting , Yan Chen

The Berry phase, a fundamental geometric phase in quantum systems, has become a crucial tool for probing the topological properties of materials. Quantum oscillations, such as Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations, are widely used to extract…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Bogdan M. Fominykh , Valentin Yu. Irkhin , Vyacheslav V. Marchenkov

We consider the impact of Berry phase on the Wigner crystal (WC) state of a two-dimensional electron system. We consider first a model of Bernal bilayer graphene with a perpendicular displacement field, and we show that Berry curvature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Sandeep Joy , Leonid Levitov , Brian Skinner

Over a long period of exploration, the successful observation of quantized version of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in thin film of magnetically-doped topological insulator completed a quantum Hall trio---quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 Hongming Weng , Rui Yu , Xiao Hu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

We investigate how the Berry force (i.e. the pseudo-magnetic force operating on nuclei as induced by electronic degeneracy and spin-orbit coupling (SOC)) might modify a post-transition state bifurcation (PTSB) reaction path and affect…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Zhen Tao , Tian Qiu , Joseph E. Subotnik

A theory of electronic friction is developed using the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wavefunction. No assumption is made regarding the electronic bath, which can be made of independent or interacting electrons, and the nuclei…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Rocco Martinazzo , Irene Burghardt

We theoretically study the effect of the Berry curvature on the transport properties of Weyl semimetals in the nonadiabatic process, which results in nonlinear optical responses. In the adiabatic process, the Berry curvature, which involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Tomoya Hayata , Masahito Ueda , Naoto Nagaosa

In two-dimensional layered quantum materials, the stacking order of the layers determines both the crystalline symmetry and electronic properties such as the Berry curvature, topology and electron correlation. Electrical stimuli can…