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Massive Dirac fermions break the chiral symmetry explicitly and also make the Berry curvature of the band structure non-Abelian. By utilizing the Green's function technique, we develop a microscopic theory to establish a set of quantum…

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We study the quantum nonlinear Hall effect in two-dimensional materials with time-reversal symmetry. When only one mirror line exists, a transverse charge current occurs in second-order response to an external electric field, as a result of…

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The planar Hall effect in 3D systems is an effective probe for their Berry curvature, topology, and electronic properties. However, the Berry curvature-induced conventional planar Hall effect is forbidden in 2D systems as the out-of-plane…

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We investigate chiral superconductivity emerging from parent electronic states with non-uniform Berry curvature, motivated by recent experiments in rhombohedral graphene multilayers. Using the continuum $\lambda_N$-model-a tunable platform…

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The anomalous Hall effect in time-reversal symmetry broken systems is underpinned by the concept of Berry curvature in band theory. However, recent experiments reveal that the nonlinear Hall effect can be observed in non-magnetic systems…

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Quantum metric and Berry curvature are the real part and imaginary part of the quantum geometric tensor, respectively. The T-odd (T: time-reversal) nonlinear Hall effect driven by the quantum metric dipole, recently confirmed in Science…

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Under symmetry breaking, a three-dimensional nodal-line semimetal can turn into a topological insulator or Weyl semimetal, accompanied by the generation of momentum-space Berry curvature. We develop a theory that unifies their circular…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-31 Ying Liu , Shengyuan A. Yang , Fan Zhang

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

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

We show that the inter-band absorption of radiation in a 2D Dirac material leads to a direct electric current flowing at sample edges. The photocurrent originates from the momentum alignment of electrons and holes and is controlled by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 M. V. Durnev , S. A. Tarasenko

The anomalous Hall conductivity of "dirty" ferromagnetic metals is dominated by a Berry-phase contribution which is usually interpreted as an intrinsic property of the Bloch electrons in the pristine crystal. In this work we evaluate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-25 Raffaello Bianco , Raffaele Resta , Ivo Souza

A highly superlinear in radiation intensity photoconductance induced by terahertz laser radiation with moderate intensities has been observed in quantum point contacts made of GaAs quantum wells operating in the deep tunneling regime. For…

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Semiconductor transistors are essential elements of electronic circuits as they enable, for example, the isolation or amplification of voltage signals. While conventional transistors are point-type (lumped-element) devices, it may be highly…

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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

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

We reveal the gate-tunable Berry curvature dipole polarizability in Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 nanoplates through measurements of the third-order nonlinear Hall effect. Under an applied electric field, the Berry curvature exhibits an asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Tong-Yang Zhao , An-Qi Wang , Xing-Guo Ye , Xing-Yu Liu , Xin Liao , Zhi-Min Liao

We investigate the intrinsic thermal Hall conductivity contributed by optical phonons in a cubic system. The discrete rotational symmetry of the system splits the degeneracy of transverse modes across most regions of wave-vector space,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Xuesong Hu , Junren Shi

Magnetic semimetals have increasingly emerged as lucrative platforms hosting spin-based topological phenomena in real and momentum spaces. Of particular interest is the emergence of Berry curvature, whose geometric origin, accessibility…

We demonstrate an electric field control of anomalous Hall effect emerging in CaIrO$_3$/CaMnO$_3$ heterostructures. We fabricate both electron-type and hole-type carrier samples by tuning epitaxial strain and then control the carrier…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-23 R. Nishino , T. C. Fujita , M. Kawasaki

Though the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect and nonlocal transport response reveals nontrivial band topology governed by the Berry curvature in twisted bilayer graphene, some recent works reported nonlinear Hall signals in…

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