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We study the electromagnetic response and surface electromagnetic modes in a generic gapped Dirac material under pumping with circularly polarized light. The valley imbalance due to pumping leads to a net Berry curvature, giving rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 Anshuman Kumar , Andrei Nemilentsau , Kin Hung Fung , George Hanson , Nicholas X. Fang , Tony Low

The non-linear generalization of the Hall effect has recently gained much attention, with a rapidly growing list of non-centrosymmetric materials that display higher-order Hall responses under time-reversal invariant conditions. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-26 Nesta Benno Joseph , Arka Bandyopadhyay , Awadhesh Narayan

Topological chiral crystals have emerged as a fertile material platform for investigating optical phenomena derived from the distinctive Fermi surface Berry curvature and orbital magnetic moment textures around multifold chiral band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 C. O. Ascencio , D. J. P. de Sousa , Tony Low

It has been recently established that optoelectronic and non-linear transport experiments can give direct access to the dipole moment of the Berry curvature in non-magnetic and non-centrosymmetric materials. Thus far, non-vanishing Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Raffaele Battilomo , Niccolo' Scopigno , Carmine Ortix

We study magnon-plasmon coupling in effectively two-dimensional stacks of van der Waals layers in the context of the band structure topology. Invoking the quasiparticle approximation, we show that the magnetic dipole coupling between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Tomoki Hirosawa , Pieter M. Gunnink , Alexander Mook

Band crossing points, such as Weyl and Dirac points, play a crucial role in the topological classification of materials and guide the exploration of exotic topological phases. The Berry dipole, a three-dimensional band crossing point beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Qingyang Mo , Riyi Zheng , Cuicui Lu , Xueqin Huang , Zhengyou Liu , Shuang Zhang

The Berry phase-related nontrivial electronic band geometries can significantly influence bulk and edge plasmons resulting in their non-reciprocal propagation and opening new opportunities for plasmonics. In the present work, we extend the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Cooper Finnigan , Dmitry K. Efimkin

Materials with Berry curvature dipoles (BDs) support a non-Hermitian electro-optic (EO) effect that is investigated here for lasing at terahertz (THz) frequencies. Such a system is here conceived as a stack of low-symmetry 2D materials. We…

It has recently been realized that the first-order moment of the Berry curvature, namely the Berry curvature dipole (BCD) can give rise to non-linear current in a wide variety of time-reversal invariant and non-centrosymmetric materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Sai Satyam Samal , S. Nandy , Kush Saha

We study theoretically "graphene-like" plasmonic metamaterials constituted by two-dimensional arrays of metallic nanoparticles, including perfect honeycomb structures with and without inversion symmetry, as well as generic bipartite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 Thomas Jebb Sturges , Claire Woollacott , Guillaume Weick , Eros Mariani

We present a theoretical analysis of Dirac magneto-plasmons in topological insulator nanowires. We discuss a cylindrical geometry where Berry phase effects induce the opening of a gap at the neutrality point. By taking into account surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 P. Iorio , C. A. Perroni , V. Cataudella

Plasmonic chirality exhibits great potential for novel nanooptical devices due to the generation of a strong chiroptical response. Previous reports on plasmonic chirality explanations are mainly based on phase retardation and coupling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-05 Li Hu , Yingzhou Huang , Yurui Fang

Thin flakes of black phosphorus (BP) are a two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor whose energy gap is predicted being sensitive to the number of layers and external perturbations. Very recently, it was found that a simple method of potassium…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-15 Seung Su Baik , Keun Su Kim , Yeonjin Yi , Hyoung Joon Choi

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

Two-dimensional (2D) Dirac states and Dirac points with linear dispersion are the hallmark of graphene, topological insulators, semimetals, and superconductors. Lowering a symmetry by the ferroelectric polarization opens the gap in Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Konstantin S. Denisov , Yuntian Liu , Igor Žutić

We introduce ''Berry-dipole semimetals'', whose band degeneracies are characterized by quantized Berry dipoles. Through a two-band model constructed by Hopf map, we reveal that the Berry-dipole semimetals display a multitude of salient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Chaoyi Zhang , Xiao-Jiao Wang , Zhongbo Yan

In a magnetic texture, the spin of a conduction electron is forced to be aligned to the localized moment. As a result, the topology of the magnetic texture affects the electron dynamics in nontrivial ways. A representative example is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Hidetoshi Masuda , Takeshi Seki , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Yoichi Nii , Koki Takanashi , Yoshinori Onose

The recently introduced concept of "surface Berry plasmons" is studied in the concrete instance of a ferromagnetic conductor in which the Berry curvature, generated by spin-orbit (SO) interaction, has opposite signs for carriers parallel or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Steven S. -L. Zhang , Giovanni Vignale

We predict that a strong nonreciprocity in the resonance spectra of Dirac quantum dots can be induced by the Berry phase. The nonreciprocity arises in relatively weak magnetic fields and is manifest in anomalously large field-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-23 Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva , Leonid S. Levitov

Physics arising from two-dimensional~(2D) Dirac cones has been a topic of great theoretical and experimental interest to studies of gapless topological phases and to simulations of relativistic systems. Such $2$D Dirac cones are often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Wenlei Zhao , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong
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