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We consider the electron transport through a single molecule magnet transistor in the presence of a local transverse magnetic field and ac-driven gate voltage. We calculate the conductance as a function of the electron energy and transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Gabriel Gonzalez

One big achievement in modern condensed matter physics is the recognition of the importance of various band geometric quantities in physical effects. As prominent examples, Berry curvature and the Berry curvature dipole are connected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Huiying Liu , Jianzhou Zhao , Yue-Xin Huang , Xiaolong Feng , Cong Xiao , Weikang Wu , Shen Lai , Wei-bo Gao , Shengyuan A. Yang

Quantum evolution of particles under strong fields can be essentially captured by a small number of quantum trajectories that satisfy the stationary phase condition in the Dirac-Feynmann path integrals. The quantum trajectories are the key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Fan Yang , Ren-Bao Liu

In this paper we develop a new discrete method for calculating the dielectric tensor and Born effective charge tensor in finite electric field by using Berry's phase and the gauge invariance. We present a new method to overcome…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Myong Chol Pak , Nam-Hyok Kim , Hak-Chol Pak , Song-Jin Im

We propose a general framework of nonlinear optics induced by non-Abelian Berry curvature in time-reversal-invariant (TRI) insulators. We find that the third-order response of a TRI insulator under optical and terahertz light fields is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Fan Yang , Ren-Bao Liu

We present a two-dimensional (2D) lattice model that exhibits a nontrivial topological phase in the absence of the Berry curvature. Instead, the Berry connection provides the topological nontrivial phase in the model, whose integration over…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Feng Liu , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We calculate the spectrum of interlayer neutral excitons in transition-metal-dichalcogenide WeSe$_2$/MoSe$_2$ heterobilayers in the $R$-stacking configuration. Most saliently, we show that, similarly to neutral excitons and trions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Houssem Eddine Hannachi , Mark-Oliver Goerbig , Sihem Jaziri

Steady illumination of a non-centrosymmetric semiconductor results in a bulk photovoltaic current, which is contributed by real-space displacements (`shifts') of charged quasiparticles as they transit between Bloch states. The shift induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Penghao Zhu , A. Alexandradinata

We have observed the Berry phase effect associated with interband coherence in topological surface states (TSSs) using two-color high-harmonic spectroscopy. This Berry phase accumulates along the evolution path of strong field-driven…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-10 Ya Bai , Yang Jiang , Wenyang Zheng , Jiayin Chen , Shuo Wang , Candong Liu , Ruxin Li , Peng Liu

By quantizing the semiclassical motion of excitons, we show that the Berry curvature can cause an energy splitting between exciton states with opposite angular momentum. This splitting is determined by the Berry curvature flux through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Jianhui Zhou , Wen-Yu Shan , Wang Yao , Di Xiao

The topological phases of matter are characterized using the Berry phase, a geometrical phase, associated with the energy-momentum band structure. The quantization of the Berry phase, and the associated wavefunction polarization, manifest…

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 study the quantum nonlinear Hall effect in two-dimensional materials with time-reversal symmetry. When only one mirror line exists, a transverse charge current occurs in second-order response to an external electric field, as a result of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Jhih-Shih You , Shiang Fang , Su-Yang Xu , Efthimios Kaxiras , Tony Low

We investigate the quantum geometric tensor, which is comprised of the Berry curvature and quantum metric, in a generalized Dirac two-band system with non-integer dispersion $E(\mathbf{k})\sim k^{\alpha}$. Our analysis reveals that this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-03 Jamme Omar A. Biscocho , Kristian Hauser A. Villegas

Band geometry plays a substantial role in topological lattice models. The Berry curvature, which resembles the effect of magnetic field in reciprocal space, usually fluctuates throughout the Brillouin zone. Motivated by the analogy with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-11 Daniel Varjas , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Kang Yang , Emil J. Bergholtz

In quantum mechanics, a quantum wavepacket may acquire a geometrical phase as it evolves along a cyclic trajectory in parameter space. In condensed matter systems, the Berry phase plays a crucial role in fundamental phenomena such as the…

Artificial crystals such as moir\'e superlattices can have a real-space periodicity much larger than the underlying atomic scale. This facilitates the presence of Bloch oscillations in the presence of a static electric field. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Christophe De Beule , E. J. Mele

The chirality of electronic Bloch bands is responsible for many intriguing properties of layered two-dimensional materials. We show that in bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), unlike in few-layer graphene and monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Andor Kormányos , Viktor Zólyomi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , Guido Burkard

In topological materials, Berry curvature leads to intrinsic Hall responses. Focusing on time-reversal symmetric systems with broken inversion symmetry, a spontaneoous (zero magnetic field) Hall effect is expected to develop under an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Shouvik Sur , Lei Chen , Yiming Wang , Chandan Setty , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

We report the experimental observation of two distinct Berry phases ($+\frac{2\pi}{3}$ and $-\frac{2\pi}{3}$) generated on the surface of a M\"{o}bius cavity resonator at microwave frequencies supporting the TE$_{1,0,n}$ mode family. This…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 E. C. I. Paterson , M. E. Tobar , M. Goryachev , J. Bourhill