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The Berry curvature plays a key role in the magnetic transport of topological materials. Yet, it is not clear whether the Berry curvature by itself can give rise to universal transport phenomena with specific scaling behaviors. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Min-Xue Yang , Hai-Dong Li , Wei Luo , Bingfeng Miao , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

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 dynamical effects of topological charge in two-dimensional QED can be expressed in terms of a topological order parameter via a Berry phase construction. The Berry phase describes the electric charge polarization of the vacuum in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-18 H. B. Thacker , Gabriel Wong

The topology of the electronic band structure of solids can be described by its Berry curvature distribution across the Brillouin zone. We theoretically introduce and experimentally demonstrate a general methodology based on the measurement…

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

Berry curvature physics and quantum geometric effects have been instrumental in advancing topological condensed matter physics in recent decades. Although Landau level-based flat bands and conventional 3D solids have been pivotal in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Pratap Chandra Adak , Subhajit Sinha , Amit Agarwal , Mandar M. Deshmukh

Berry curvature (BC) governs topological phases of matter and generates anomalous transport. When a magnetic field is applied, phonons can acquire BC indirectly through spin-lattice coupling, leading to a linear phonon Hall effect. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 Jino Im , Choong H. Kim , Hosub Jin

The nonlinear Hall effect due to Berry curvature dipole (BCD) induces frequency doubling, which was recently observed in time-reversal-invariant materials. Here we report novel electric frequency doubling in the absence of BCD on a surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-17 Pan He , Hiroki Isobe , Dapeng Zhu , Chuang-Han Hsu , Liang Fu , Hyunsoo Yang

Though the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect and nonlocal transport response reveals nontrivial band topology governed by the Berry curvature in twisted bilayer graphene, some recent works reported nonlinear Hall signals in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Xu Zhang , Xuemeng Feng , Zishu Zhou , Shi Wang , Yong Chen , Chun Cheng , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng , Ning Wang

It has been recently established that optoelectronic and non-linear transport experiments can give direct access to the dipole moment of the Berry curvature in non-magnetic and non-centrosymmetric materials. Thus far, non-vanishing Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Raffaele Battilomo , Niccolo' Scopigno , Carmine Ortix

The characterization and the experimental measurement of the Berry curvature in solids have become an increasingly relevant task in condensed matter physics. We present the theoretical prediction of a gate tunable anomalous Hall effect…

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

Topologically non-trivial states characterized by Berry curvature appear in a number of materials ranging from spin-orbit-coupling driven topological insulators to graphene. In multivalley conductors, such as mono- and bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Sergey Slizovskiy , Edward McCann , Mikito Koshino , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The Berry curvature (BC), a quantity encoding the geometry of electronic wavefunctions, governs various electronic transport effects in quantum materials. In magnetic systems, the BC is reponsible for the intrinsic part of the anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Rhonald Burgos Atencia , Antonio Vecchione , Denys Makarov , Carmine Ortix

Starting with general semiclassical equations of motion for electrons in the presence of electric and magnetic fields, we extend the Chambers formula to include in addition to a magnetic field, time-dependent electric fields and bands with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Emmanouil K. Kokkinis , Garry Goldstein , Dmitry Efremov , Joseph J. Betouras

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

We theoretically investigate the localization mechanism of quantum anomalous Hall Effect (QAHE) with large Chern numbers $\mathcal{C}$ in bilayer graphene and magnetic topological insulator thin films, by applying either nonmagnetic or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Hui Yang , Junjie Zeng , Yulei Han , Zhenhua Qiao

The layer Hall effect describes electrons spontaneously deflected to opposite sides at different layers, which has been experimentally reported in the MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ thinfilms under perpendicular electric fields [Gao et al., Nature 595, 521…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Rui Chen , Hai-Peng Sun , Mingqiang Gu , Chun-Bo Hua , Qihang Liu , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

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

The use of Berry-phase concepts has established a strong link between the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and the topological character of the Hall currents. However, the occurrence of sign competition in the Berry curvature often hinders the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-19 Wojciech Brzezicki , Carmine Autieri , Mario Cuoco