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We study a two-dimensional charged particle interacting with a magnetic field, in general non-homogeneous, perpendicular to the plane, a confining potential, and a point interaction. If the latter moves adiabatically along a loop the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel Exner , Vladimir A. Geyler

The Berry-phase mediated valley-selected skew scattering in alpha-T3 lattices is demonstrated. The interplay of Lorentz and Berry forces in position and momentum spaces is revealed and analyzed. Many-body screening of the electron-impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Hong-Ya Xu , Ying-Cheng Lai , Godfrey Gumbs

We show that the charge conductivity for impurity free multi band electronic systems can be expressed in terms of the diagonal and non-diagonal elements of the Zitterbewegung amplitudes while the Berry curvature and the Chern number is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 József Cserti , Gyula Dávid

Berry's phase often appears in quantum two-level systems with a degeneracy. An example of such a system is a spin-1/2 particle in a magnetic field. As the magnetic field is slowly evolved through a closed path, the particle has been shown…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-15 Anthony Tyler , Roberto C. Ramos

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 Zitterbewegung (ZB) effect is investigated in graphene with spacially modulated potential near the original Dirac point (ODP) and extra Dirac points (EDPs). Our calculations show that to get the large ZB oscillations, the wave packet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Abdellatif Kamal , Ahmed Jellal

We study quasiparticle dynamics in a Bose-Einstein condensate with a vortex by following the center of mass motion of a Bogoliubov wavepacket, and find important Berry phase effects due to the background flow. We show that Berry phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chuanwei Zhang , Artem M. Dudarev , Qian Niu

We establish an exact analytical relation between Zitterbewegung dynamics and the band geometry in two-dimensional Dirac systems. By identifying a time-independent antisymmetric observable-the \textit{areal rate of Zitterbewegung}-we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Sonja Predin

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

We study the role of different orientations of an applied magnetic field as well as the interplay of structural asymmetries on the characteristics of eigenstates in a quantum ring system. We use a nearly analytical model description of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 V. Lopes-Oliveira , L. K. Castelano , G. E. Marques , S. E. Ulloa , V. Lopez-Richard

In the present contribution, by studying a fractional version of Dirac's equation for the electron, we show that the phenomenon of Zitterbewegung in a coarse-grained medium exhibits a transient oscillatory behavior, rather than a purely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-22 José Weberszpil , José Abdalla Helayël-Neto

We study the magnetic Bloch oscillations performed by a quantum particle moving in a two-dimensional lattice in the presence of a strong (synthetic) magnetic field and a uniform force. An elementary derivation of the Berry curvature effect…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-25 Marco Cominotti , Iacopo Carusotto

The paper discusses the Berry phase influence on the weak localization phenomenon at the adiabatic backscattering of ultrarelativistic particles in a random medium. We demonstrate that bosons that pass along a certain closed path in…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Yu. Bliokh

We study spin parity effects and the quantum propagation of solitons (Bloch walls) in quasi-one dimensional ferromagnets. Within a coherent state path integral approach we derive a quantum field theory for nonuniform spin configurations.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Hans-Benjamin Braun , Daniel Loss

Neutron spin can be coupled to the Earth's rotating frequency. Once if the Earth's rotating frequency is time-dependent, then the neutron will acquire a Berry's topological phase (cyclic adiabatic geometric phase). So, a potential method to…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Qi Shen

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a physical phenomenon where the vector potential induces a phase shift of electron wavepackets in regions with zero magnetic fields. It is often referred to as evidence for the physical reality of the vector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Francesco Di Colandrea , Nazanin Dehghan , Filippo Cardano , Alessio D'Errico , Ebrahim Karimi

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

We investigate geometric phase of fermion states under relative vibrations of two sublattices in graphene by solving time-dependent Sch\"{o}dinger equation using Floquet scheme. In a period of vibration the fermions acquire different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-03 Shi-Jie Xiong , Ye Xiong

Rotating photon gas exhibits a chirality separation along the angular velocity which is manifested through a generation of helicity and zilch currents. In this paper we study this system using the corresponding Wigner function and construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Xu-Guang Huang , Pavel Mitkin , Andrey V. Sadofyev , Enrico Speranza

We study the quantum mechanical phases associated with the propagation of neutrinos in gravitational fields under the WKB approximation for Dirac equation. Applying the result, the investigations are made for gravitational effects on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hisae Maiwa , Shigefumi Naka