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The anomalous Hall effect in disordered band ferromagnets is considered in the framework of quantum transport theory. A microscopic model of electrons in a random potential of identical impurities including spin-orbit coupling is used. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Woelfle , K. A. Muttalib

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

Motivated by the nonlinear Hall effect observed in topological semimetals, we studied the photocurrent by the quantum kinetic equation. We recovered the shift current and injection current discovered by Sipe et al., and the nonlinear Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-23 Zhi Li , Takami Tohyama , Toshiaki Iitaka , Haibin Su , Haibo Zeng

In most conductors current flow perpendicular to electric field direction (Hall current) can be explained in terms of the Lorentz forces present when charged particles flow in an external magnetic field. However, as established in the very…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-14 Hua Chen , Qian Niu , A. H. MacDonald

The theory of the nonlinear Hall effect has been established by I. Sodemann and L. Fu [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216806 (2015)] in a semiclassical framework: therein, the effect appears as a geometrical property of Bloch electrons, originating…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-13 Raffaele Resta

Quantum geometry - the geometry of electron Bloch wavefunctions - is central to modern condensed matter physics. Due to the quantum nature, quantum geometry has two parts, the real part quantum metric and the imaginary part Berry curvature.…

The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) has been detected in various of condensed matter systems. Unlike linear Hall effect, NLHE may exist in physical systems with broken inversion symmetry in the crystal. On the other hand, real space spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-15 Wen-Tao Hou , Jiadong Zang

The ordinary Hall effect is driven by the Lorentz force, while its anomalous counterpart occurs in ferromagnets. Here we show that the Berry curvature monopole of non-magnetic 2D spin-3/2 holes leads to a novel Hall effect linear in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 James H. Cullen , Pankaj Bhalla , Elizabeth Marcellina , Alexander R. Hamilton , Dimitrie Culcer

The second-order nonlinear current originates from three physical mechanisms: extrinsic nonlinear Drude and Berry curvature dipole and intrinsic Berry connection polarizability. Here, we predict a new intrinsic contribution to the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Kamal Das , Shibalik Lahiri , Rhonald Burgos Atencia , Dimitrie Culcer , Amit Agarwal

Optoelectronic and nonlinear transport experiments probe the quantum geometric tensor of Bloch states, whose real and imaginary components -- the quantum metric and the Berry curvature -- are typically constrained by symmetry. Here, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

We predict a nonlinear Hall effect in certain Weyl semimetals with broken inversion symmetry. When the energy dispersions about pairs of Weyl nodes are skewed -- the Weyl cones are "tilted" -- the concerted actions of the anomalous velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Rui-Hao Li , Olle G. Heinonen , Anton A. Burkov , Steven S. -L. Zhang

The Landauer formula provides a general scattering formulation of electrical conduction. Despite its utility, it has been mainly applied to the linear-response regime, and a scattering theory of nonlinear response has yet to be fully…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 Kohei Kawabata , Masahito Ueda

In recent years, the investigation of nonlinear electromagnetic responses has received significant attention due to its potential for elucidating the quantum properties of matter. Although remarkable progress has been achieved in developing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Anwei Zhang , C. M. Wang

The quantum geometry has significant consequences in determining transport and optical properties in quantum materials. Here, we use a semiclassical formalism coupled with perturbative corrections unifying the nonlinear anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Daniel Kaplan , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

Under broken time reversal symmetry such as in the presence of external magnetic field or internal magnetization, a transverse voltage can be established in materials perpendicular to both longitudinal current and applied magnetic field,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-04 Hua Wang , Xiaofeng Qian

The topology between Bloch states in reciprocal space has attracted tremendous attention in recent years. The quantum geometry of the band structure is composed of quantum metric as real part and berry curvature as imaginary part. While the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Junjian Mi , Jialin Li , Miaocong Li , Sheng Xu , Shuang Yu , Zheng Li , Xinyi Fan , Huanfeng Zhu , Qian Tao , Linjun Li , Zhuan Xu

The recently discovered nonlinear Hall (NLH) effect arises either without external magnetic field (type-I) or with an in-plane magnetic field (type-II). In this work we propose a new type of geometrical nonlinear Hall effect with an…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-16 Junjie Yao , Yizhou Liu , Wenhui Duan

We study the quantum nonlinear planar Hall effect in bilayer graphene under a steady in-plane magnetic field. When time-reversal symmetry is broken by the magnetic field, a charge current occurs in the second-order response to an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Narjes Kheirabadi , Abdollah Langari

The nonlinear Hall effect has attracted considerable attention and undergone extensive investigation in recent years. However, theoretical studies addressing size-dependent effects remain largely unexplored. In this work, we establish a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Xinyu Liu , Haozhi Liao , Guangyun Qi , Hao Geng , Li Sheng , Dingyu Xing

The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) is a phenomenon which could produce a transverse Hall voltage in a time-reversal-invariant material. Here, we report the real space characterization of NLHE evaluated through quantum transport in TaIrTe4…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Sheng Luo , Chuang-Han Hsu , Guoqing Chang , Arun Bansil , Hsin Lin , Gengchiau Liang