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We construct a theory for the semiclassical dynamics of superconducting quasiparticles by following their wave-packet motion and reveal rich contents of Berry curvature effects in the phase-space spanned by position and momentum. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-12 Zhi Wang , Liang Dong , Cong Xiao , Qian Niu

The Berry-phase mediated valley-selected skew scattering in alpha-T3 lattices is demonstrated. The interplay of Lorentz and Berry forces in position and momentum spaces is revealed and analyzed. Many-body screening of the electron-impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Hong-Ya Xu , Ying-Cheng Lai , Godfrey Gumbs

Berry phases occur when a system adiabatically evolves along a closed curve in parameter space. This tutorial-like article focuses on Berry phases accumulated in real space. In particular, we consider the situation where an electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-06 Karin Everschor-Sitte , Matthias Sitte

Nonlinear optical response is well studied in the context of semiconductors and has gained a renaissance in studies of topological materials in the recent decade. So far it mainly deals with non-magnetic materials and it is believed to root…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Tobias Holder , Daniel Kaplan , Binghai Yan

Berry monopoles-quantized sources of Berry curvature-are fundamental to topological phases, yet their scattering remains unexplored. Here, we report for the first time the adiabatic scattering of Berry monopoles in a bilayer photonic…

We investigate how introducing slow, time-dependent perturbations to a steady, nonequilibrium process alters the expected (excess) values of important observables, such as the dynamical activity and entropy flux. When we make a cyclic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Aaron Beyen , Faezeh Khodabandehlou , Christian Maes

A diffusion process for charge distributions in a phase space is examined. The corresponding charge moves in a force field and under an action of a random field. There are the diffusion motions for coordinates and for momenta. In our model,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-19 E. M. Beniaminov

Berry phase for a spin--1/2 particle moving in a flat spacetime with torsion is investigated in the context of the Einstein-Cartan-Dirac model. It is shown that if the torsion is due to a dense polarized background, then there is a Berry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-07 M. Alimohammadi , A. Shariati

This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorge Peñarrubia

The Berry curvature provides a powerful tool to unify several branches of science through their geometrical aspect: topology, energy bands, spin and vector fields. While quantum defects -- phase vortices and skyrmions -- have been in the…

The jets of blazars are renowned for their multi-wavelength flares and rapid extreme variability; however, there are still some important unanswered questions about the physical processes responsible for these spectral and temporal changes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-30 Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang , C. Y. Yang , J. M. Bai

Brownian diffusion of rod-like polymers in the presence of randomly distributed spherical obstacles is studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. It is observed that dependence of the reduced diffusion coefficient of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Farzaneh Sakha , Hossein Fazli

Recent experiments have demonstrated that it is possible to alter the dispersion of a medium without significantly altering its absorption or refractive index and that this may be done while a wave propagates through the medium. This…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-10 Douglas H. Bradshaw , Michael D. Di Rosa

The horizontal dynamics of a bouncing ball interacting with an irregular surface is investigated and is found to demonstrate behavior analogous to a random walk. Its stochastic character is substantiated by the calculation of a permutation…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-09-15 Luiz Antonio Barreiro

Topological energy bands have important geometrical properties described by the Berry curvature. We show that the Berry curvature changes the hydrodynamic equations of motion for a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate, and causes significant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-02 Hannah M. Price , Nigel R. Cooper

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Arka Bandyopadhyay , Nesta Benno Joseph , Awadhesh Narayan

We study numerically the evolution of the velocity distribution of atoms under the action of the bichromatic force. The comparison of the time dependencies of the distribution width and the average acceleration of atoms reveal the…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-14 V. I. Romanenko , L. P. Yatsenko

Experimentally feasible methods to determine the Berry phase, a fundamental quantity characterizing a quantum material, are often needed in applications. We develop an approach to detecting the Berry phase by using a class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Li-Li Ye , Cheng-Zhen Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai

The dynamics of individual colloidal particles in random potential energy landscapes were investigated experimentally and by Monte Carlo simulations. The value of the potential at each point in the two-dimensional energy landscape follows a…

We study several effects which lead to symmetry-broken momentum distributions of quantum gases released from optical lattices. In particular, we demonstrate that interaction within the first milliseconds of the time-of-flight expansion can…