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A unified expression for topological invariants has been proposed recently to describe the topological order in Dirac models belonging to any dimension and symmetry class. We uncover a correspondence between the curvature function that…

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The quest for a consistent theory for quantum gravity is one of the most challenging problems in theoretical high-energy physics. An often-used approach is to describe the gravitational degrees of freedom by the metric tensor or related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-19 Dennis Obster

The local geometry of the parameter space of a quantum system is described by the quantum metric tensor and the Berry curvature, which are two fundamental objects that play a crucial role in understanding geometrical aspects of condensed…

Gauging a global symmetry of a system amounts to introducing new degrees of freedom whose transformation rule makes the overall system observe a local symmetry. In quantum systems there can be obstructions to gauging a global symmetry. When…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 José Garre Rubio , Ilya Kull

Advanced vector imaging techniques provide us with 3D maps of magnetization fields in which topological concepts can be directly applied to describe real-space experimental textures in non-ideal geometries. Here, the 3D magnetization of a…

Because global topological properties are robust against local perturbations, understanding and manipulating the topological properties of physical systems is essential in advancing quantum science and technology. For quantum computation,…

Quantum metrology is deeply connected to quantum geometry, through the fundamental notion of quantum Fisher information. Inspired by advances in topological matter, it was recently suggested that the Berry curvature and Chern numbers of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Min Yu , Xiangbei Li , Yaoming Chu , Bruno Mera , F. Nur Ünal , Pengcheng Yang , Yu Liu , Nathan Goldman , Jianming Cai

The nonanalytic property of metric resulting from the presence of gravitomagnetic monopoles is considered. The curvature tensors, dual curvature tensors, dual Einstein tensor (and hence the gravitational field equation of gravitomagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-01 Jian Qi Shen

The quantum geometric properties of topological materials underpin many exotic physical phenomena and applications. Quantum nonlinearity has emerged as a powerful probe for revealing these properties. The Berry curvature dipole in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Xing-Yu Liu , An-Qi Wang , Dong Li , Tong-Yang Zhao , Xin Liao , Zhi-Min Liao

Recently Anishetty, Majumdar and Sharatchandra have proposed a way of characterizing topologically non-trivial configurations for 2+1 dimensional Yang-Mills theory in a local and manifestly gauge invariant manner. In this paper paper we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Pushan Majumdar , Dong-Shin Shin

We present an alternative description of magnetic monopoles by lifting quantum mechanics from 3-dimensional space into a one with 2 complex dimensions. Magnetic monopoles are realized as a generalization of the considered states. Usual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Samuel Kováčik , Peter Prešnajder

Predicting tensorial properties with machine learning models typically requires carefully designed tensorial descriptors. In this work, we introduce an alternative strategy for learning tensorial quantities based on scalar descriptors. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-05 Bernhard Schmiedmayer , Angela Rittsteuer , Tobias Hilpert , Georg Kresse

The surface states of 3D topological insulators possess geometric structures that imprint distinctive signatures on electronic transport. A prime example is the Berry curvature, which controls, for instance, electric frequency doubling via…

Over the years, Berry curvature, which is associated with the imaginary part of the quantum geometric tensor, has profoundly impacted many branches of physics. Recently, quantum metric, the real part of the quantum geometric tensor, has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Xiao-Bin Qiang , Tianyu Liu , Zi-Xuan Gao , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

In quantum physics, multiparticle systems are described by quantum states acting on tensor products of Hilbert spaces. This product structure leads to the distinction between product states and entangled states; moreover, one can quantify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Lisa T. Weinbrenner , Albert Rico , Kenneth Goodenough , Xiao-Dong Yu , Otfried Gühne

We present the successful realization of four-dimensional (4D) semimetal bands featuring tensor monopoles, achieved using superconducting quantum circuits. Our experiment involves the creation of a highly tunable diamond energy diagram with…

Topological principles constitute at present an integral component of condensed matter physics, permeating the modern characterization of electronic states while also guiding materials design. In this brief Perspective, I highlight three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Tomáš Bzdušek

Contrary to the electric charge that generates the electric field, magnetic charge (namely magnetic monopoles) does not exist in the elementary electromagnetism. Consequently, magnetic flux lines only form loops and cannot have a source or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Wenjie Xi , Wei Ku

The geometry and topology of quantum systems have deep connections to quantum dynamics. In this paper, I show how to measure the non-Abelian Berry curvature and its related topological invariant, the second Chern number, using dynamical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-06 Michael Kolodrubetz

With the help of the Berry curvature and the first Chern number $($$\textit{C}_1$$)$, we both analytically and numerically investigate and thus simulate artificial magnetic monopoles formed in parameter space of the Hamiltonian of a driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ze-Lin Zhang , Ming-Feng Chen , Huai-Zhi Wu , Zhen-Biao Yang