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Linear crossing of energy bands occur in a wide variety of materials. In this paper we address the question of the quantization of the Berry winding characterizing the topology of these crossings in dimension $D=2$. Based on the historical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Thibaud Louvet , Pierre Delplace , Mark Oliver Goerbig , David Carpentier

Ever since its discovery, the Berry phase has permeated through all branches of physics. Over the last three decades, it was gradually realized that the Berry phase of the electronic wave function can have a profound effect on material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-01 Di Xiao , Ming-Che Chang , Qian Niu

The Berry curvature of phonons is an active subject of research in condensed matter physics. Here, we present a model in which phonons acquire a Berry curvature through their coupling to electrons in crystals with time-reversal symmetry. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Sayandip Ghosh , Selçuk Parlak , Ion Garate

The ABC-stacked N-layer-graphene family of two-dimensional electron systems is described at low energies by two remarkably flat bands with Bloch states that have strongly momentum-dependent phase differences between carbon pi-orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-12 Fan Zhang , Bhagawan Sahu , Hongki Min , Allan H. MacDonald

The geometry of electronic bands in a solid can drastically alter single-particle charge and spin transport. We show here that collective optical excitations arising from Coulomb interactions also exhibit unique signatures of Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-16 Ajit Srivastava , Ataç Imamoğlu

Dirac points are found to emerge due to the crossing of bands in the electronic structure of bilayer graphene for configurations in which the alignment between two hexagonal lattices preserves the parallelism of the armchair/zigzag lines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 V. Nam Do

The topological properties of electronic edge states in time-periodically driven spatially-periodic corrugated zigzag graphene nanoribbons are studied. An effective one-dimensional Hamiltonian is used to describe the electronic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

We numerically study the interaction of a terahertz pulse with monolayer graphene. We observe that the electron momentum density is affected by the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of the single- to few-cycle terahertz laser pulse that induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 C. Lefebvre , D. Gagnon , F. Fillion-Gourdeau , S. MacLean

Transmission probabilities of Dirac fermions in graphene under linear barrier potential oscillating in time are investigated. Solving Dirac equation we end up with the solutions of the energy spectrum depending on several modes coming from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui

We review chiral (Klein) tunneling in single-layer and bilayer graphene and present its semiclassical theory, including the Berry phase and the Maslov index. Peculiarities of the chiral tunneling are naturally explained in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 T. Tudorovskiy , K. J. A. Reijnders , M. I. Katsnelson

The Schr\"odinger equation dictates that the propagation of nearly free electrons through a weak periodic potential results in the opening of band gaps near points of the reciprocal lattice known as Brillouin zone boundaries. However, in…

We consider the electron transport through a single molecule magnet transistor in the presence of a local transverse magnetic field and ac-driven gate voltage. We calculate the conductance as a function of the electron energy and transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Gabriel Gonzalez

We investigate the effect of the environment on a Berry phase measurement involving a spin-half. We model the spin+environment using a biased spin-boson Hamiltonian with a time-dependent magnetic field. We find that, contrary to naive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert S. Whitney , Yuval Gefen

We explore emergent geometry of the spacetime at the microscopic scale by adiabatic transport of a quasi-coherent state of a fermionic string, with quantum spacetime described by the matrix theory (BFSS matrix model). We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 David Viennot

We study phase diagrams of charge-conserving `class A' non-interacting fermions, focusing on the trivial phase in various dimensions. Such phases are usually termed `featureless' to distinguish them from those others with either…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Sashank Singam , Nick G. Jones , Abhishodh Prakash

We consider Berry phase mediated Nernst effect in silicene. The low energy band structure of silicene consists of two valleys near the Dirac points, similar to graphene. The low energy transport properties of the quasiparticles can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 I. Ahmed , M. Tahir , K. Sabeeh

The dynamics of Dirac semimetals is modeled at low energies by the massless Dirac Hamiltonian with the Fermi velocity replacing the velocity of light. The classical action is scale invariant. In 3D materials, Coulomb interactions induce a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-26 Matteo Baggioli , Maxim N. Chernodub , Karl Landsteiner , Alessandro Principi , María A. H. Vozmediano

This work reveals the intrinsic connection between Dirac monopole theory and Berry geometric phases by extending Dirac's theory to the parameter space. Using the simplest two-mode Hamiltonian model, we explicitly visualize Dirac strings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Li-Chen Zhao

The evolution of electronic wave packets (WPs) through grain boundaries (GBs) of various structures in graphene was investigated by the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. WPs were injected from a simulated STM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-12 Péter Vancsó , Géza I. Márk , Philippe Lambin , Alexandre Mayer , Yong-Sung Kim , Chanyong Hwang , László P. Biró

Topological node of electronic bands can carry emergent charge degree of freedom such as the Berry curvature monopole of the Weyl semimetals, which results in intriguing transport and optical phenomena. In this study, we discuss the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Kohei Hattori , Hikaru Watanabe , Ryotaro Arita