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We derive the chiral kinetic theory under the presence of a gravitational Riemann curvature. It is well-known that in the chiral kinetic theory there inevitably appears a redundant ambiguous vector corresponding to the choice of the Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-06 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Kazuya Mameda

We prove a Berger-type theorem which asserts that if the orthogonal subgroup generated by the torsion tensor (pulled back to a point by parallel transport) of a metric connection with skew-symmetric torsion is not transitive on the sphere,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Silvio Reggiani

Geometric phases in condensed matter play a central role in topological transport phenomena such as the quantum, spin and anomalous Hall effect (AHE). In contrast to the quantum Hall effect - which is characterized by a topological…

The Riemannian geometry of elastica in one and two dimensions is considered. An example is given of the deflexion or Frenet curvature of the elastic filament rod where the Riemannian curvature vanishes, since the curve is one dimensional.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

We reveal the unexpected role of the material inhomogeneity in unifying the formulation of intrinsic thermal and thermoelectric transport as well as magnetization currents. The smooth inhomogeneity leads to the position dependent local band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Cong Xiao , Qian Niu

Berry curvature fundamentally dictates the topological ground state, anomalous transport and optical properties of quantum materials. However, directly mapping its momentum-space distribution in real materials remains an outstanding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Louis Primeau , Qiong Ma , Yang Zhang

From the Aharonov-Bohm effect to general relativity, geometry plays a central role in modern physics. In quantum mechanics many physical processes depend on the Berry curvature. However, recent advances in quantum information theory have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-04 Michael Kolodrubetz , Vladimir Gritsev , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Berry curvature is ubiquitous in condensed matter physics and materials science. Its main consequence is the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in magnetic materials and plays a pivotal role in spintronic applications and quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-07 Satoshi Okamoto , Adriana Moreo , Naoto Nagaosa , Stuart S. P. Parkin

The geometric properties of quantum states are crucial for understanding many physical phenomena in quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, and optics. The central object describing these properties is the quantum geometric tensor,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Marius A. Oancea , Thomas B. Mieling , Giandomenico Palumbo

We consider the adiabatic evolution of the Dirac equation in order to compute its Berry curvature in momentum space. It is found that the position operator acquires an anomalous contribution due to the non Abelian Berry gauge connection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Alain Bérard , Herve Mohrbach

Two-dimensional materials are a fertile ground for exploring quantum geometric phenomena, with Berry curvature and its first moment, the Berry curvature dipole, playing a central role in their electronic response. These geometric properties…

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 describe a construction of Riemannian metrics of nonnegative sectional curvature on a closed smooth nonorientable 4-manifold with fundamental group of order two that realizes a homotopy class that was not previously known to contain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Rafael Torres

Analogously to the concept of a curvature of curve and surface, in the differential geometry, in the main part of this paper the concept of the curvature of the hyper-dimensional vector spaces of Riemannian metric is generally defined. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Branko Saric

We construct the kinetic theory in ($1+2d$)-dimensional phase space and time when all abelian and nonabelian phase-space Berry curvatures are nonzero. Then we calculate anomalous transports induced by the Berry curvatures on the basis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka

The discovery of Berry curvature (BC) has spurred a tremendous surge of research into various quantum phenomena such as the anomalous transport of electrons and the topological phases of matter. In two-dimensional crystalline systems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Hogyun Jeong , Jeongwoo Kim , Hosub Jin

Berry phase and Berry curvature play a key role in the development of topology in physics and do contribute to the transport properties in solid state systems. In this paper, we report the finding of novel nonzero Hall effect in topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Jun Ge , Da Ma , Yanzhao Liu , Huichao Wang , Yanan Li , Jiawei Luo , Tianchuang Luo , Ying Xing , Jiaqiang Yan , David Mandrus , Haiwen Liu , X. C. Xie , Jian Wang

"Half moons", distinctive crescent patterns in the dynamical structure factor, have been identified in inelastic neutron scattering experiments for a wide range of frustrated magnets. In an earlier paper [H. Yan et al., Phys. Rev. B 98,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-03 Han Yan , Judit Romhányi , Andreas Thomasen , Nic Shannon

In this paper we continue our study on the canonical metrics on the Teichm\"uller and the moduli space of Riemman surfaces. We first prove the equivalence of the Bergman metric and the Carath\'eodory metric to the K\"ahler-Einstein metric,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kefeng Liu , Xiaofeng Sun , Shing-Tung Yau

The dynamics of a molecule in a magnetic field is significantly different form its zero-field counterpart. One important difference in the presence of a field is the Lorentz force acting on the nuclei, which can be decomposed as the sum of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Tanner Culpitt , Laurens D. M. Peters , Erik I. Tellgren , Trygve Helgaker