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Berry connection is conventionally defined as a static gauge field in the Brillouin zone. Here we show that for three-dimensional (3d) time-reversal invariant superconductors, a generalized Berry gauge field behaves as a fluctuating field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Biao Lian , Cumrun Vafa , Farzan Vafa , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Recently, the topological flat bands and spin Hall effect have been experimentally observed in the AB-stacked MoTe$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterostructures. In this work, we systematically study the Berry curvature effects in moir\'{e} transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Jin-Xin Hu , Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

A family of finite-dimensional quantum systems with a non-degenerate ground state gives rise to a closed 2-form on the parameter space: the curvature of the Berry connection. Its cohomology class is a topological invariant of the family. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Anton Kapustin , Lev Spodyneiko

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit spectral and topological phenomena absent in Hermitian physics; however, their geometric characterization is hindered by an intrinsic ambiguity rooted in the eigenspace of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Ievgen I. Arkhipov

We study QED$_4$ in the adiabatic approximation, incorporating global topological effects associated with the $U(1)$ Berry connection. The Berry phase accumulated by the fermionic vacuum is given by $\Delta \alpha = \oint_{\mathcal{C}}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 J. Gamboa

A Berry phase can be added to the wavefunction of an isolated quantum dot by adiabatically modulating a nonuniform electric field along a time-cycle. The dot is tuned close to a three-level degeneracy, which provides a wide range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Giuliano , P. Sodano , A. Tagliacozzo

The quantum adiabatic theorem incorporating the Berry phase phenomenon can be characterized as a factorization of the time evolution operator into a path-dependent geometric factor, a usual dynamical factor and a non-adiabatic factor that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-08 J. Chee

We consider Bloch electrons in the electromagnetic field and argue the relation between the Berry phase and the quantized Hall conductivity in three-dimension. The Berry phase we consider here is induced by the adiabatic change of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Goryo , M. Kohmoto

The Berry connection is a gauge-dependent quantity frequently used to describe the optical response of solids. Its evaluation requires a k-derivative with respect to the cell periodic-part of the Bloch-functions and is commonly calculated…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Martin Thümmler , Thomas Lettau , Alexander Croy , Ulf Peschel , Stefanie Gräfe

Gate-based quantum computers can in principle simulate the adiabatic dynamics of a large class of Hamiltonians. Here we consider the cyclic adiabatic evolution of a parameter in the Hamiltonian. We propose a quantum algorithm to estimate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Bruno Murta , G. Catarina , J. Fernandez-Rossier

In this paper we develop a general method to obtain the Berry phase of time-dependent Hamiltonians with a linear structure given in terms of the $SU(1,1)$ and $SU(2)$ groups. This method is based on the similarity transformations of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 E. Choreño , D. Ojeda-Guillén , R. Valencia , V. D. Granados

We discover the connection between the Berry curvature and the Riemann curvature tensor in any kinematic space of minimal surfaces anchored on spherical entangling surfaces. This new holographic principle establishes the Riemann geometry in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Xing Huang , Chen-Te Ma

We investigate the effect of the environment on a Berry phase measurement involving a spin-half. We model the spin+environment using a biased spin-boson Hamiltonian with a time-dependent magnetic field. We find that, contrary to naive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert S. Whitney , Yuval Gefen

We use the Van Vleck-Primas perturbation theory to study the problem of parallel transport of the eigenvectors of a parameter-dependent Hamiltonian. The perturbative approach allows us to define a non-Abelian connection $\mathcal{A}$ that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 A. D. Bermúdez Manjarres , A. Botero

A three-dimensional anisotropic quantum well placed in an adiabatically precessing uniform magnetic field is considered and an explicit formula for the Berry phase is obtained. To get the Berry phase, a purely algebraic algorithm of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Geyler , A. V. Shorokhov

The physics of a quantum dot with electron-electron interactions is well captured by the so called "Universal Hamiltonian" if the dimensionless conductance of the dot is much higher than unity. Within this scheme interactions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Arijit Saha , Yuval Gefen , Igor Burmistrov , Alexander Shnirman , Alexander Altland

Adiabatic approximation for quantum evolution is investigated quantitatively with addressing its dependence on the Berry connections. We find that, in the adiabatic limit, the adiabatic fidelity may uniformly converge to unit or diverge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jie Liu , Li-Bin Fu

Modular Berry transport associates a geometric phase to a zero mode ambiguity in a family of modular operators. In holographic settings, this phase was shown to encode nontrivial information about the emergent spacetime geometry. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 Jan de Boer , Bahman Najian , Jeremy van der Heijden , Claire Zukowski

Adiabatic processes driven by non-Hermitian, time-dependent Hamiltonians may be sped up by generalizing inverse engineering techniques based on Berry's transitionless driving algorithm or on dynamical invariants. We work out the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 S. Ibáñez , S. Martínez-Garaot , Xi Chen , E. Torrontegui , J. G. Muga

The $\alpha$-$T_3$ model is characterized by a variable Berry phase that changes continuously from $\pi$ to $0$. We take advantage of this property to highlight the effects of this underlying geometrical phase on a number of physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 E. Illes , J. P. Carbotte , E. J. Nicol