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We study the nonlinear Hall effect in superconductors without magnetic fields induced by a quantum geometric phase (i.e., the Aharonov-Bohm phase) carried by single or pair particles. We find that the second-order nonlinear Hall…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-20 Kazuaki Takasan , Naoto Tsuji

We develop a theory for the nonlocal measurement of nonlinear valley Hall effect. Different from the linear case where the direct and the inverse processes are reciprocal, we unveil that the nonlinear inverse valley Hall effect needed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Jin Cao , Hui Wang , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

We develop a theory for the electrical and thermal transverse linear response functions such as the Hall, Nernst and thermal Hall effects in magnetic materials that harbor topological spin textures like skyrmions. In addition to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Zachariah Addison , Lauren Keyes , Mohit Randeria

The experimental observation of the long-sought quantum anomalous Hall effect was recently reported in magnetically doped topological insulator thin films [Chang et al., Science 340, 167 (2013)]. An intriguing observation is a rapid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-04 Hai-Zhou Lu , An Zhao , Shun-Qing Shen

The electronic topology is generally related to the Berry curvature, which can induce the anomalous Hall effect in time-reversal symmetry breaking systems. Intrinsic monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides possesses two nonequivalent K…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Mao-Sen Qin , Peng-Fei Zhu , Xing-Guo Ye , Wen-Zheng Xu , Zhen-Hao Song , Jing Liang , Kaihui Liu , Zhi-Min Liao

We decompose the intrinsic second-order nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) of a generic multiband system into its quantum-geometric contributions within a fully quantum-mechanical, projector-based formalism. By expanding the nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yannis Ulrich , Johannes Mitscherling , Laura Classen , Andreas P. Schnyder

We present a systematic microscopic derivation of the semiclassical Boltzmann equation for band structures with the finite Berry curvature based on Keldysh technique of nonequilibrium systems. In the analysis, an ac electrical driving field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

Valley polarized twisted bilayer dice lattice hosts topologically nontrivial flat bands far from charge neutrality due to broken time reversal symmetry, whereas the ones in the vicinity of it remain topologically trivial. However, when both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Gourab Paul , Srijata Lahiri , Bilal Tanatar , Saurabh Basu

In a series of recent papers anomalous Hall and Nernst effects have been theoretically discussed in the non-linear regime and have seen some early success in experiments. In this paper, by utilizing the role of Berry curvature dipole, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

The nonlinear Hall effect has attracted much attention due to the famous, widely adopted interpretation in terms of the Berry curvature dipole in momentum space. Using ab initio Boltzmann transport equations, we find a 60% enhancement in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Jae-Mo Lihm , Cheol-Hwan Park

Nonlinear Hall responses are a direct electrical probe of quantum geometry, but they are symmetry-forbidden in many pristine two-dimensional metals. We show that layer-selective magnetic proximity unlocks intrinsic linear and nonlinear Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Yusuf Wicaksono , Toshikaze Kariyado

Nonlinear optical response is well studied in the context of semiconductors and has gained a renaissance in studies of topological materials in the recent decade. So far it mainly deals with non-magnetic materials and it is believed to root…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Tobias Holder , Daniel Kaplan , Binghai Yan

Hot spot of Berry curvature is usually found at Bloch band anti-crossings, where the Hall effect due to the Berry phase can be most pronounced. With small gaps there, the adiabatic limit for the existing formulations of Hall current can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Ci Li , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

The ordinary Hall effect refers to generation of a transverse voltage upon exertion of an electric field in the presence of an out-of-plane magnetic field. While a linear Hall effect is commonly observed in systems with breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Young-Gwan Choi , Manh-Ha Doan , Youngkuk Kim , Gyung-Min Choi

I review some aspects of an alternative model of the quantum Hall effect, which is not based on the presence of disorder potentials. Instead, a quantization of the electronic drift current in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias Kramer

The theory of the intrinsic Hall effect, both linear and nonlinear, is rooted in a geometry which is defined in the Bloch-vector parameter space; the formal expressions are mostly derived from semiclassical concepts. When disorder and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Raffaele Resta

A key step towards dissipationless transport devices is the quantum anomalous Hall effect, which is characterized by an integer quantized Hall conductance in a ferromagnetic insulator with strong spin-orbit coupling. In this work, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) connects crystalline symmetry to quantum geometry, offering a probe of band topology beyond linear transport. While most studies have focused on the Berry curvature dipole in low-symmetry crystals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Heda Zhang , Nikolai Peshcherenko , Ning Mao , Nianlong Zou , Jiaqiang Yan , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

Nonreciprocal (NR) charge transport in quantum materials has attracted enormous interest since it offers an avenue to investigate quantum symmetry related physics and holds many prospective applications such as rectification and…

The linear and nonlinear Hall effects in 2D systems are considered theoretically within the isotropic k-cubed Rashba model. We show that the presence of an out-of-plane external magnetic field or net magnetization is a necessary condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 A. Krzyzewska , A. Dyrdal