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Zak phase, i.e. the Berry phase acquired during an adiabatic motion of a Bloch particle across the Brillouin zone, provides a measure of the topological invariant of Bloch bands in one-dimensional crystalline potentials. Here a photonic…

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We study the orbital magnetic moment of Bogoliubov quasiparticles in superconductors with the semiclassical approach. We derive the orbital magnetic moment of a quasiparticle wavepacket by considering the energy correction of the wavepacket…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-20 Jian-hua Zeng , Zhongbo Yan , Zhi Wang , Qian Niu

We analyze a measurement scheme that allows determination of the Berry curvature and the topological Chern number of a Hamiltonian with parameters exploring a two-dimensional closed manifold. Our method uses continuous monitoring of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Peng Xu , Alexander Holm Kiilerich , Ralf Blattmann , Yang Yu , Shi-Liang Zhu , Klaus Mølmer

Bloch oscillations (BOs), i.e. the oscillatory motion of a quantum particle in a periodic potential, are one of the most striking effects of coherent quantum transport in the matter. In the semiclassical picture, it is well known that BOs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 Stefano Longhi

The weak field magnetoresistance has seen a revived interest due to the distinct role played by the momentum-space Berry curvature of Bloch electrons. While most previous studies in this regard focus on the inter-scattering motion of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-11 Cong Xiao , Hua Chen , Yang Gao , Di Xiao , Allan H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

The orbital magnetization of the electron gas on a two-dimensional kagome lattice under a perpendicular magnetic field is theoretically investigated. The interplay between the lattice geometry and magnetic field induce nontrivial $k$-space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 Zhigang Wang , Zi-Gang Yuan , Zhen-Guo Fu , Shu-Shen Li , Ping Zhang

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

We study nonlinear magneto-optical responses of metals by a semiclassical Boltzmann equation approach. We derive general formulas for linear and second order nonlinear optical effects in the presence of magnetic fields that include both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Takahiro Morimoto , Shudan Zhong , Joseph Orenstein , Joel E. Moore

A three-dimensional non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with parity-time symmetry can exhibit a closed exceptional surface (EP surface) in momentum space, which is a non-Hermitian deformation of the degeneracy line (DL). Since the degeneracy line…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 P. Wang , L. Jin , Z. Song

The influence of the topology and curvature of objects on photonic properties represents an intriguing fundamental problem from cosmology to nanostructure physics. The classical topological transition from a ring to a M\"obius strip is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Mikhail Bochkarev , Nikolay Solodovchenko , Kirill Samusev , Mikhail Limonov

The Berry curvature (BC) - a quantity encoding the geometric properties of the electronic wavefunctions in a solid - is at the heart of different Hall-like transport phenomena, including the anomalous Hall and the non-linear Hall and Nernst…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Canio Noce , Andrea D. Caviglia , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

We study electronic transport in Weyl semimetals with spatially varying nodal tilt profiles. We find that the flow of electrons can be guided precisely by judiciously chosen tilt profiles. In a broad regime of parameters, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Andreas Haller , Suraj Hegde , Chen Xu , Christophe De Beule , Thomas L. Schmidt , Tobias Meng

We propose that a nonlinear Hall response can be observed in Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms in optical lattices under the condition of preserved time-reversal symmetry. In the short-time limit of Bloch oscillations driven by a direct…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-26 Xiao-Long Chen , Wei Zheng

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…

It has been recently found that the equations of motion of several semiclassical systems must take into account anomalous velocity terms arising from Berry phase contributions. Those terms are for instance responsible for the spin Hall…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Pierre Gosselin , Alain Berard , Herve Mohrbach

We present a theory of geodynamics in a space-time crystal based on an event wave packet constructed from the Floquet-Bloch waves, which not only involve a scalar dispersion function but also a Berry curvature tensor in the phase space…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Anzhuoer Li , Liang Dong , Qian Niu

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

We calculate the shift, due to interatomic interactions, of an optical transition in an atomic Fermi gas trapped in an optical lattice, as in recent experiments of Campbell {\it et al.}, Science {\bf 324}, 360 (2009). Using a pseudospin…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-01-11 Zhenhua Yu , C. J. Pethick

We investigate the anomalous effects due to the Berry correction and the considerable perturbations in the silicene-like hexagonal lattice system. The Berry curvature in periodic Bloch band system which related to the electromagnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Chen-Huan Wu

Materials can be classified by the topological character of their electronic structure and, in this perspective, global attributes immune to local deformations have been discussed in terms of Berry curvature and Chern numbers. Except for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Dongbin Shin , Shunsuke A. Sato , Hannes Hübener , Umberto De Giovannini , Jeongwoo Kim , Angel Rubio , Noejung Park