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The geometric structure of an energy band in a solid is fundamental for a wide range of many-body phenomena in condensed matter and is uniquely characterized by the distribution of Berry curvature over the Brillouin zone. In analogy to an…

We study paraxial beam propagation along the wedge axis of a disclinated amorphous medium. The defect-induced inhomogeneity results in Berry phase and curvature that are affected by the induced uniaxial anisotropy. The Berry phase manifests…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-28 Mohammad Mehrafarin , Shima Gholam-Mirzaei

In a magnetic texture, the spin of a conduction electron is forced to be aligned to the localized moment. As a result, the topology of the magnetic texture affects the electron dynamics in nontrivial ways. A representative example is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Hidetoshi Masuda , Takeshi Seki , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Yoichi Nii , Koki Takanashi , Yoshinori Onose

We investigate an interplay between quantum geometrical effects and surface plasmons through surface plasmonic structures, based on an electron hydrodynamic theory. First we demonstrate that the quantum nonlinear Hall effect can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Riki Toshio , Norio Kawakami

Superconductivity and Bloch band Berry curvature responses represent two distinct paradigms of quantum coherent phenomena. The former relies on the collective motion of a many-body state while the latter proceeds from the momentum-space…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-30 Oles Matsyshyn , Giovanni Vignale , Justin C. W. Song

Light-matter interactions in conventional nanophotonic structures typically lack directionality. Furthermore, surface waves supported by conventional material substrates do not usually have a preferential direction of propagation, and their…

We theoretically show that the magnon wavepacket has a rotational motion in two ways; a self-rotation and a motion along the boundary of the sample (edge current). They are similar to cyclotron motion of electrons, but unlike electrons the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Ryo Matsumoto , Shuichi Murakami

The feedback of the geometrical Berry phase, accumulated in an electron system, on the slow dynamics of classical degrees of freedom is governed by the Berry curvature. Here, we study local magnetic moments, modelled as classical spins,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Simon Michel , Michael Potthoff

The quantum geometric tensor, which has the quantum metric and Berry curvature as its real and imaginary parts, plays a key role in the transport properties of condensed matter systems. In the nonlinear regime, the quantum metric dipole and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Xu Yang , Brian Skinner

We study signatures of magnetic quantum oscillations in three-dimensional nodal line semimetals at zero temperature. The extended nature of the degenerate bands can result in a Fermi surface geometry with topological genus one, as well as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Hui Yang , Roderich Moessner , Lih-King Lim

Non-reciprocal plasmons in current-driven, isotropic, and homogenous graphene with proximal metallic gates is theoretically explored. Nearby metallic gates screen the Coulomb interactions, leading to linearly dispersive acoustic plasmons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Michael Sammon , Dionisios Margetis , E. J. Mele , Tony Low

Topological node of electronic bands can carry emergent charge degree of freedom such as the Berry curvature monopole of the Weyl semimetals, which results in intriguing transport and optical phenomena. In this study, we discuss the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Kohei Hattori , Hikaru Watanabe , Ryotaro Arita

We propose and analyze surface-plasmon-driven electron spin currents in a thin metallic film. The electron gas in the metal follows the transversally rotating electric fields of the surface plasmons (SPs), which leads to a static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo

Altermagnets are rapidly emerging as a highly promising platform for spintronics, yet dynamically controlling their spin responses remains a fundamental challenge. In this work, we demonstrate that introducing periodic optical driving and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Kai Chen , Jie Zhu

Quantized transport not only exist in gapped topological states but also in metallic states. Recently, Kane proposed a quantized nonlinear conductance in ballistic metals whose value is determined by the Euler characteristic of the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Fan Yang , Xingyu Li

Hall experiments in chiral magnets are often analyzed as the sum of an anomalous Hall effect, dominated by momentum-space Berry curvature, and a topological Hall effect, arising from the real-space Berry curvature in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Nishchhal Verma , Zachariah Addison , Mohit Randeria

Berry curvature and skew-scattering play central roles in determining both the linear and nonlinear anomalous Hall effects. Yet in {\it PT}-symmetric antiferromagnetic metals, Hall effects from either intrinsic Berry curvature mediated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Da Ma , Arpit Arora , Giovanni Vignale , Justin C. W. Song

Recent experimental evidence for the quantum spin Hall (QSH) state in monolayer WTe$_2$ has bridged two of the most active fields of condensed matter physics, 2D materials and topological physics. This 2D topological crystal also displays…

We have analyzed analytically the Faraday rotation of an electromagnetic wave for magnetoactive thin metallic film with a nanostructured surface profile. Periodical as well as random surface profiles were considered. The plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Zhyrair Gevorkian , Vladimir Gasparian

Topological protection of edge state in quantum spin Hall systems relies only on time-reversal symmetry. Hence, S z conservation on the edge can be relaxed which can have an interferometric manifestation in terms of spin Berry phase.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Vivekananda Adak , Krishanu Roychowdhury , Sourin Das