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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

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) characterizes the complete geometric properties of quantum states, with the symmetric part being the quantum metric, and the antisymmetric part being the Berry curvature. We propose a generic Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Hai-Tao Ding , Chang-Xiao Zhang , Jing-Xin Liu , Jian-Te Wang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We define a time-dependent extension of the quantum geometric tensor to describe the geometry of the time-parameter space for a quantum state, by considering small variations in both time and wave function parameters. Compared to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Bogar Díaz , Diego Gonzalez , Marcos J. Hernández , J. David Vergara

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

We theoretically predict the full quantum geometric tensor, comprising the quantum metric and the Berry curvature, for a square lattice of plasmonic nanoparticles. The gold nanoparticles act as dipole or multipole antenna radiatively…

The photogalvanic effect (PGE), a fundamental nonlinear optical phenomenon in non-centrosymmetric materials, generates direct photocurrent under polarized light. Using quantum kinetic theory within the relaxation-time approximation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bristi Ghosh , Malay Bandyopadhyay , Snehasish Nandy

The quantum geometry of Bloch wavefunctions underpins a wealth of emergent phenomena in quantum materials. Its imaginary part, the Berry curvature, has long been recognized as a key source for hallmark effects such as quantum Hall and…

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) fundamentally encodes the geometry and topology of quantum states in both Hermitian and non-Hermitian regimes. While adiabatic perturbation theory links its real part (quantum metric) and imaginary part…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Ze-Hao Huang , Hai-Tao Ding , Li-Jun Lang

Various nonlinear characteristics of solid states, such as the circular photogalvanic effect of time-reversal symmetric insulators, the quantized photogalvanic effect of Weyl semimetals, and the nonlinear Hall effect of time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Mahmut Sait Okyay , Shunsuke Sato , Kunwoo Kim , Binghai Yan , Hosub Jin , Noejung Park

The Berry curvature and its descendant, the Berry phase, play an important role in quantum mechanics. They can be used to understand the Aharonov-Bohm effect, define topological Chern numbers, and generally to investigate the geometric…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 Michael Kolodrubetz

In this paper, we extend the quantum geometric tensor for parameter-dependent curved spaces to higher dimensions, and introduce an equivalent definition that generalizes the Zanardi, et al, formulation of the tensor. The parameter-dependent…

We first consider a generic two-band model which can be mapped to a pseudospin on a Bloch sphere. We establish the link between the pseudospin orientation and the components of the quantum geometric tensor (QGT): the metric tensor and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 O. Bleu , D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) provides nontrivial bounds among physical quantities, as exemplified by the metric-curvature inequality. In this paper, we investigate various bounds for different observables through certain…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Koki Shinada , Naoto Nagaosa

We take as a starting point an expression for the quantum geometric tensor recently derived in the context of the gauge/gravity duality. We proceed to generalize this formalism in such way it is possible to compute the geometrical phases of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Javier Alvarez-Jimenez , Aldo Dector , J. David Vergara

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) characterizes the local geometry of quantum states, and its components directly account for the dynamical effects observed, e.g., in condensed matter systems. In this work, we address the problem of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Y. -M. Robin Hu , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Eliezer Estrecho

The band geometric properties of quantum materials play an elemental role in the linear and nonlinear transport of electrons. In this paper, we propose that the interplay of the Berry curvature, the orbital magnetic moment and the Lorentz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Shibalik Lahiri , Tanmay Bhore , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

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.…

Nonlinear optical response is a sensitive probe of the geometry and symmetry of electronic Bloch states in solids. Here, we extend this notion to the Bogoliubiov-de-Gennes (BdG) quasiparticles in superconductors. We present a theory of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-19 Daniel Kaplan , Kevin P. Lucht , Pavel A. Volkov , J. H. Pixley

We study many-body quantum geometric effects in time-dependent system with emergent quantum integrable field theory instantaneously. We establish a theorem stating that the Berry connection matrix thus all associated geometric quantities of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-14 Xiao Wang , Xiaodong He , Jianda Wu

Recent discoveries in semi-metallic multi-gap systems featuring band singularities have galvanized enormous interest in particular due to the emergence of non-Abelian braiding properties of band nodes. This previously uncharted set of…