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We compute the electric spin susceptibility of Bloch electrons with spin-orbit coupling to second order. We find that it is possible to generate a nonequilibrium spin polarization in the bulk of non-magnetic inversion-symmetric materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Benjamin M. Fregoso

A theory of the weak field Hall effect of Bloch electrons based on the analysis of the forces acting on electrons is presented. It is argued that the electric current is composed of two contributions, that driven by the electric field along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pavel Streda , Thibaut Jonckheere

We show that topological transitions in electronic spin transport are feasible by a controlled manipulation of spin-guiding fields. The transitions are determined by the topology of the fields texture through an effective Berry phase…

We have studied Bloch electrons in a perfect unidirectional superlattice subject to crossed electric and magnetic fields, where the magnetic field is oriented ``in-plane'', i.e. in parallel to the sample plane. Two orientation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-05 L. Smrcka , N. A. Goncharuk , M. Orlita , R. Grill

Electrons in periodic potentials exhibit oscillatory motion in presence of an electric field. Such oscillations are known as Bloch oscillations. In this article we theoretically investigate the emergence of Bloch oscillations for systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Bogdan Stefan Popescu , Alexander Croy

Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures can be engineered into artificial superlattices that host flat bands with significant Berry curvature and provide a favorable environment for the emergence of novel electron dynamics. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

The Berry curvature, resembling the magnetic field in reciprocal space, offers a captivating avenue for exploring unique electromagnetic phenomena devoid of real-space analogs. Here, we investigate the emergent electromagnetic induction by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Wei Luo , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

Electrons moving in a Bloch band are known to acquire an anomalous Hall velocity proportional to the Berry curvature of the band which is responsible for the intrinsic linear Hall effect in materials with broken time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 O. Matsyshyn , I. Sodemann

In recent years, nonlinear Hall effect has attracted great attention with three different terms contributed by Drude effect, Berry curvature dipole and Berry connection polarizability. In this work, we theoretically predict an intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Zhi-Fan Zhang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

Anomalous Hall effect and spin Hall effect originate due to spin-orbit coupling that in the Kohn-Luttinger ${\bf k}\cdot{\bf p}$ formalism is represented by anomalous terms in the coordinate and velocity operators. Relation of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emmanuel I. Rashba

We study the quantum nonlinear planar Hall effect in bilayer graphene under a steady in-plane magnetic field. When time-reversal symmetry is broken by the magnetic field, a charge current occurs in the second-order response to an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Narjes Kheirabadi , Abdollah Langari

Using adiabatic expansions formalism, upper bounds for interband transitions for Bloch electrons in slowly varying in time electric fields are obtained. These bounds imply the validity of one-band approximation on long time scales.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexandrina Nenciu

Parity-time-reversal symmetric ($\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric) magnets have garnered much attention due to their spin-charge coupled dynamics enriched by the parity-symmetry breaking. By real-time simulations, we study how localized spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-13 Kohei Hattori , Hikaru Watanabe , Ryotaro Arita

Orbital susceptibility for Bloch electrons is calculated for the first time up to the first order with respect to overlap integrals between the neighboring atomic orbitals, assuming single-band models. A general and rigorous theory of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-07 Masao Ogata

The equations of motion for the position and gauge invariant crystal momentum are considered for multiband wave packets of Bloch electrons. For a localized packet in a subset of bands well-separated from the rest of the band structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Troy Stedman , Carsten Timm , Lilia M. Woods

We develop a semiclassical theory for the dynamics of electrons in a magnetic Bloch band, where the Berry phase plays an important role. This theory, together with the Boltzmann equation, provides a framework for studying transport problems…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. C. Chang , Q. Niu

The correlated motion of electrons in a one dimensional system with an externally applied longitudinal electric field is discussed. Within the tight binding model we show that in addition to the well known Bloch oscillations the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Claro , J. F. Weisz , S. Curilef

The inverse problem for electromagnetic field produced by arbitrary altered charge distribution in dipole approximation is solved. The charge distribution is represented by its dipole moment. It is assumed that the spectral properties of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-06 V. Epp , J. G. Janz

The second-order nonlinear Hall effect illuminates a frequency-doubling transverse current emerging in quantum materials with broken inversion symmetry even when time-reversal symmetry is preserved. This nonlinear response originates from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Jinrui Zhong , Junxi Duan , Shihao Zhang , Huimin Peng , Qi Feng , Yuqin Hu , Qinsheng Wang , Jinhai Mao , Jianpeng Liu , Yugui Yao

Artificial crystals such as moir\'e superlattices can have a real-space periodicity much larger than the underlying atomic scale. This facilitates the presence of Bloch oscillations in the presence of a static electric field. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Christophe De Beule , E. J. Mele