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We study aspects of Berry phase in gapped many-body quantum systems by means of effective field theory. Once the parameters are promoted to spacetime-dependent background fields, such adiabatic phases are described by Wess-Zumino-Witten…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Po-Shen Hsin , Anton Kapustin , Ryan Thorngren

We systematically investigate how static symmetry-breaking perturbations and dynamic Floquet terms via a polarized light manipulate the topological phase transitions in the two-dimensional quadratic-band-crossing-point (QBCP) materials. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Wen-Hao Bian , Jing Wang

We present a measurement scheme for observing the Berry phase in a flux assisted Cooper pair pump - the Cooper pair sluice. In contrast to the recent experiments, in which the sluice was employed to generate accurate current through a…

Bloch oscillations originate from the translational symmetry of crystals. These oscillations occur with a fundamental period that a semiclassical wavepacket takes to traverse a Brillouin-zone loop. We introduce a new type of Bloch…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-07 J. Höller , A. Alexandradinata

We consider the spin 1/2 model coupled to a slowly varying magnetic field in the presence of a weak damping represented by a Lindblad-form operators. We show that Berry's geometrical phase remains unaltered by the two dissipation mechanism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. M. Fonseca Romero , A. C. Aguiar Pinto , M. T. Thomaz

We introduce the perturbative aspects of noncommutative quantum mechanics. Then we study the Berry's phase in the framework of noncommutative quantum mechanics. The results show deviations from the usual quantum mechanics which depend on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Alavi

We study theoretically the polarization state of light in multiple scattering media in the limit of weak gradients in refractive index. Linearly polarized photons are randomly rotated due to the Berry phase associated with the scattering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-07 A. C. Maggs , V. Rossetto

The phase of a quantum state may not return to its original value after the system's parameters cycle around a closed path; instead, the wavefunction may acquire a measurable phase difference called the Berry phase. Berry phases typically…

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

We show Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in topological insulator (Bi$_{x}$Sb$_{1-x}$)$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ films whose carrier type is p-type (x = 0.29, 0.34) and n-type (x = 0.42). The physical properties such as the Berry phase, mobility, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Ryota Akiyama , Kazuki Sumida , Satoru Ichinokura , Akio Kimura , Konstantin A. Kokh , Oleg E. Tereshchenko , Shuji Hasegawa

We consider in sufficient detail how the Berry phase arises in a rotating electric field in a model system with spin one. The goal is to help the student who first encountered this interesting problem, which is fraught with some subtleties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Abdaljalel Alizzi , Zurab K. Silagadze , Artem Uskov

Recent experiments on multilayer graphene systems have rekindled interest in electronic crystal phases in two dimensions -- but now for phases enriched by non-trivial quantum geometry. In this work, we introduce a simple continuum model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-27 Félix Desrochers , Joe Huxford , Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Yong Baek Kim

Within the semiclassical approach, we calculate contributions of the Berry phase and of the Zeeman coupling of the electron moment with the magnetic field to the phase of the Shubnikov - de Haas oscillations for the surface electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. P. Mikitik , Yu. V. Sharlai

We explore the transport properties of a periodically modulated $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The effect of the Berry phase on electrical conductivity oscillation, so-called Weiss…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 SK Firoz Islam , Paramita Dutta

We investigate the properties of antiferromagnetic spin-S ladders with the help of local Berry phases defined by imposing a twist on one or a few local bonds. In gapped systems with time reversal symmetry, these Berry phases are quantized,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-20 Natalia Chepiga , Frédéric Michaud , Frédéric Mila

The intersection of electronic topology and strong correlations offers a rich platform to discover exotic quantum phases of matter and unusual materials. An overarching challenge that impedes the discovery is how to diagnose topology in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-28 Chandan Setty , Fang Xie , Shouvik Sur , Lei Chen , Silke Paschen , Maia G. Vergniory , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

The bulk-boundary correspondence, a topic of intensive research interest over the past decades, is one of the quintessential ideas in the physics of topological quantum matter. Nevertheless, it has not been proven in all generality and has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-23 Jun-Won Rhim , Jens H. Bardarson , Robert-Jan Slager

We calculate the Berry phase of a spin-1/2 particle in a magnetic field considering the quantum nature of the field. The phase reduces to the standard Berry phase in the semiclassical limit and eigenstate of the particle acquires a phase in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 I. Fuentes-Guridi , A. Carollo , S. Bose , V. Vedral

We have investigated pumping in quantum dots from the perspective of non-Abelian (matrix) Berry phases by solving the time dependent Schr{\"o}dinger equation exactly for adiabatic changes. Our results demonstrate that a pumped charge is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Y. Hwang , S. C. Kim , P. S. Park , S. -R. Eric Yang

When quasiparticles move in condensed matters, the texture of their internal quantum structure as a function of position and momentum can give rise to Berry phases that have profound effects on materials properties. Seminal examples include…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Hongyi Yu , Mingxing Chen , Wang Yao