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Chirality arises from the asymmetry of matters, where two counterparts are the mirror image of each other. The interaction between circular-polarization light and quantum materials is enhanced in chiral space groups due to the structural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Chang Niu , Shouyuan Huang , Neil Ghosh , Pukun Tan , Mingyi Wang , Wenzhuo Wu , Xianfan Xu , Peide D. Ye

The use of Berry-phase concepts has established a strong link between the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and the topological character of the Hall currents. However, the occurrence of sign competition in the Berry curvature often hinders the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-19 Wojciech Brzezicki , Carmine Autieri , Mario Cuoco

The chiral lattice structure of twisted bilayer graphene with D6 symmetry allows for intrinsic photogalvanic effects only at off-normal incidence, while additional extrinsic effects are known to be induced by a substrate or a gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Fernando Peñaranda , Hector Ochoa , Fernando de Juan

We theoretically study the effect of the Berry curvature on the transport properties of Weyl semimetals in the nonadiabatic process, which results in nonlinear optical responses. In the adiabatic process, the Berry curvature, which involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Tomoya Hayata , Masahito Ueda , Naoto Nagaosa

Te is a naturally p-doped semiconductor with a chiral structure, where an electrical current causes the conduction electrons to become spin polarized parallel to the transport direction. In this paper, we present a comprehensive theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Reena Gupta , Andrea Droghetti

We generalize a semiclassical theory and use the argument of angular momentum conservation to examine the ballistic transport in lightly-doped Weyl semimetals, taking into account various phase-space Berry curvatures. We predict universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang

A valley-contrasting Berry curvature in bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides with spin-orbit coupling can generate valley magnetization when the inversion symmetry is broken, for example, by an electric field, regardless of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Vassilios Vargiamidis , P. Vasilopoulos , M. Tahir , Neophytos Neophytou

Berry curvature in Weyl semimetals results in very intriguing magneto-electric and magneto-thermal transport properties. In this paper, we explore the impact of the tilting of the Weyl nodes, which breaks the time-reversal symmetry, on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Light polarization is one of the most fundamental features, equivalent to energy and coherence. Magnetism changes light polarization, and vice versa. The irradiation of intense circularly polarized femtosecond pules to magnetic materials…

We have studied theoretically the Weyl semimetals the point symmetry group of which has reflection planes and which contain equivalent valleys with opposite chiralities. These include the most frequently studied compounds, namely the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 N. V. Leppenen , E. L. Ivchenko , L. E. Golub

This study explores the impact of a strong perpendicular laser field on the electronic structure and optical conductivity of bilayer graphene. Employing the Floquet-Bloch theorem and a four-band Hamiltonian model, we calculate the optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 S. Sajad Dabiri , Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand , Reza Asgari

We propose that chiral anomaly of Weyl superconductors gives rise to negative thermal magnetoresistivity induced by emergent magnetic fields, which are generated by vortex textures of order parameters or lattice strain. We establish this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-21 Takuro Kobayashi , Taiki Matsushita , Takeshi Mizushima , Atsushi Tsuruta , Satoshi Fujimoto

The current density ${\bf j}^{\rm{\bf B}}$ induced in a clean metal by a slowly-varying magnetic field ${\bf B}$ is formulated as the low-frequency limit of natural optical activity, or natural gyrotropy. Working with a multiband Pauli…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-22 Shudan Zhong , Joel E. Moore , Ivo Souza

The Weyl semimetal is characterized by three-dimensional linear band touching points called Weyl nodes. These nodes come in pairs with opposite chiralities. We show that the coupling of circularly polarized photons with these chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Ching-Kit Chan , Patrick A. Lee , Kenneth S. Burch , Jung Hoon Han , Ying Ran

Topological nodal-line semimetals offer an interesting research platform to explore novel phenomena associated with its torus-shaped Fermi surface. Here, we study magnetotransport in the massive nodal-line semimetal with spin-orbit coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Min-Xue Yang , Hao Geng , Wei Luo , Li Sheng , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

Chiral crystals exhibit enantiomer-dependent transport phenomena that generate pure spin or orbital currents, while the handedness sensitivity of spin and orbital Hall conductivities (SHC/OHC) remains insufficiently understood. Using…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Yuting Xiong , Yingjie Hu , Wei Ren , Heng Gao

In symmetry-broken crystalline solids, pole structures of Berry curvature (BC) can emerge, and they have been utilized as a versatile tool for controlling transport properties. For example, the monopole component of the BC is induced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Jeongwoo Kim , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Dongbin Shin , Sang-Hoon Lee , Jairo Sinova , Noejung Park , Hosub Jin

Using Hall photovoltage measurements, we demonstrate that an anomalous Hall-voltage can be induced in few layer WTe2 under circularly polarized light illumination. By applying a bias voltage along different crystal axes, we find that the…

When a conduction electron couples with a non-coplanar localized magnetic moment, the realspace Berry curvature is exerted to cause the geometrical Hall effect, which is not simply proportional to the magnetization. So far, it has been…

For a long period of time, we have been seeking how Berry curvature influnces the transport properties in materials breaking time-reversal symmetry. In time-reversal symmetric material, there will be no thermoelectric current induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Hongchao Li