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Topological Physics relies on the specific structure of the eigenstates of Hamiltonians. Their geometry is encoded in the quantum geometric tensor containing both the celebrated Berry curvature, crucial for topological matter, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 A. Gianfrate , O. Bleu , L. Dominici , V. Ardizzone , M. De Giorgi , D. Ballarini , K. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , D. D. Solnyshkov , D. Sanvitto , G. Malpuech

The geometry of the parameter space is encoded by the quantum geometric tensor, which captures fundamental information about quantum states and contains both the quantum metric tensor and the curvature of the Berry connection. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Diego Gonzalez , Daniel Gutierrez-Ruiz , J. David Vergara

The geometry of electronic bands in a solid can drastically alter single-particle charge and spin transport. We show here that collective optical excitations arising from Coulomb interactions also exhibit unique signatures of Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-16 Ajit Srivastava , Ataç Imamoğlu

Quantum geometry of Bloch wavefunctions has gained considerable interest with the discovery of moir\'e materials that exhibit bands flattened by quantum interference. The quantum metric, the symmetric part of the quantum geometric tensor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Nishchhal Verma , Raquel Queiroz

Quantum geometry may enable the development of quantum phases ranging from superconductivity to correlated topological states. One powerful probe of quantum geometry is the nonlinear Hall response which detects Berry curvature dipole in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Yuan Fang , Shouvik Sur , Yonglong Xie , Qimiao Si

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

Nonlinear response signatures are increasingly recognized as useful probes of condensed matter systems, in particular for characterisation of topologically non-trivial states. The circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) is particularly useful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Adipta Pal , Dániel Varjas , Ashley M. Cook

The Berry curvature characterizes one aspect of the geometry of quantum states. It materializes, among other consequences, as an anomalous velocity of wave packets. In non-Hermitian systems, wave packet dynamics is enriched by additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Jan Behrends , Roni Ilan , Moshe Goldstein

We present a general unified approach for the study of quantum thermal machines, including both heat engines and refrigerators, operating under periodic adiabatic driving and in contact with thermal reservoirs kept at different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Bibek Bhandari , Pablo Terrén Alonso , Fabio Taddei , Felix von Oppen , Rosario Fazio , Liliana Arrachea

Using the path-integral formalism, we show that photons possess a nontrivial quantum metric in momentum space. We derive the semiclassical action and equations of motion by taking into account the quantum metric. In media with a spatially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Keidai Akiba , Naoki Yamamoto

We demonstrate that the topological hinge state can possess a nontrivial optical Berry curvature in the nonAbelian formulation of the Berry curvature. It can be readily probed by the circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE), with the light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Zheng Liu , Zhenhua Qiao , Yang Gao , Qian Niu

Quantum geometry of the electron wave function plays a significant role in the linear and non-linear responses of crystalline materials. Here, we study quantum geometry induced second harmonic generation. We identify non-linear responses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Pankaj Bhalla , Kamal Das , Dimitrie Culcer , Amit Agarwal

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) unifies the Berry curvature (its imaginary part) and the quantum metric (its real part), yet Raman studies of chiral phonons have so far accessed only the former. We perform circularly polarized Raman…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-14 Chao-Fan Wang , Han Ge , Jun-Yang Chen , Liusuo Wu , Xiaobin Chen , Jia-Wei Mei , Mingyuan Huang

This thesis explores important concepts in the area of quantum information geometry and their relationships. We highlight the unique characteristics of these concepts that arise from their quantum mechanical foundations and emphasize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Sergio B. Juárez

We generalize the Quantum Geometric Tensor by replacing a Hamiltonian with a modular Hamiltonian. The symmetric part of the Quantum Geometric Tensor provides a Fubini-Study metric, and its anti-symmetric sector gives a Berry curvature. Now…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Xing Huang , Chen-Te Ma

Understanding the relationship between quantum geometry and topological invariants is a central problem in the study of topological states. In this work, we establish the relationship between the quantum metric and the Euler curvature in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Soonhyun Kwon , Bohm-Jung Yang

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

The study of quantum geometry effects in materials has been one of the most important research directions in recent decades. The quantum geometry of a material is characterized by the quantum geometry tensor of the Bloch states. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-17 Hui Li , Chengping Zhang , Chengjie Zhou , Chen Ma , Xiao Lei , Zijing Jin , Hongtao He , Baikui Li , Kam Tuen Law , Jiannong Wang

The quantum geometric tensor, which encodes the full geometric information of quantum states in projective Hilbert space, plays a crucial role in condensed matter physics. In this work, we examine the effect of the non-Abelian quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-02 Kai Chen , Bishnu Karki , Pavan Hosur

Geometric phases in quantum mechanics play an extraordinary role in broadening our understanding of fundamental significance of geometry in nature. One of the best known examples is the Berry phase (M.V. Berry (1984), Proc. Royal. Soc.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-11 V. Gritsev , A. Polkovnikov