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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

Topological effects arising from the Berry curvature lead to intriguing transport signatures in quantum materials. Two such phenomena are the chiral anomaly and nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE). A unified description of these transport regimes…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Dhruv C. Desai , Lauren A. Tan , Jin-Jian Zhou , Shiyu Peng , Jinsoo Park , Marco Bernardi

Though the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect and nonlocal transport response reveals nontrivial band topology governed by the Berry curvature in twisted bilayer graphene, some recent works reported nonlinear Hall signals in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Xu Zhang , Xuemeng Feng , Zishu Zhou , Shi Wang , Yong Chen , Chun Cheng , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng , Ning Wang

Berry curvature-related topological phenomena have been a central topic in condensed matter physics. Yet, until recently other quantum geometric quantities such as the metric and connection received only little attention due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Yiyang Jiang , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

It has been recently established that optoelectronic and non-linear transport experiments can give direct access to the dipole moment of the Berry curvature in non-magnetic and non-centrosymmetric materials. Thus far, non-vanishing Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Raffaele Battilomo , Niccolo' Scopigno , Carmine Ortix

We propose a modified Boltzmann nonlinear electric-transport framework which differs from the nonlinear generalization of the linear Boltzmann formalism by a contribution that has no counterpart in linear response. This contribution follows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Cong Xiao , Z. Z. Du , Qian Niu

The quest for nonmagnetic Weyl semimetals with high tunability of phase has remained a demanding challenge. As the symmetry breaking control parameter, the ferroelectric order can be steered to turn on/off the Weyl semimetals phase, adjust…

Quantum metric and Berry curvature are the real part and imaginary part of the quantum geometric tensor, respectively. The T-odd (T: time-reversal) nonlinear Hall effect driven by the quantum metric dipole, recently confirmed in Science…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Longjun Xiang , Bin Wang , Yadong Wei , Zhenhua Qiao , Jian Wang

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

We develop a theory of Berry phase effect in anomalous transport in ferromagnets driven by statistical forces such as the gradient of temperature or chemical potential. Here a charge Hall current arises from the Berry phase correction to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Di Xiao , Yugui Yao , Zhong Fang , Qian Niu

This paper focuses on the study of linear exciton Hall and Nernst effects in monolayer two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, employing the semi-classical transport theory. By deriving the exciton Berry curvature in momentum space for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Weilong Guo , Lianguo Li , Qingjun Tong , Ci Li

We study the magnetoelectric and magnetothermal transport properties of noncentrosymmetric metals using semiclassical Boltzmann transport formalism by incorporating the effects of Berry curvature and orbital magnetic moment. These effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Ojasvi Pal , Bashab Dey , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Electric current flows parallel to the outer product of an applied electric field and temperature gradient, a phenomenon we call the nonlinear chiral thermo-electric (NCTE) Hall effect. We present a general microscopic formulation of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Terufumi Yamaguchi , Kazuki Nakazawa , Ai Yamakage

Quantized transport not only exist in gapped topological states but also in metallic states. Recently, Kane proposed a quantized nonlinear conductance in ballistic metals whose value is determined by the Euler characteristic of the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Fan Yang , Xingyu Li

The electrical Hall effect is the production of a transverse voltage under an out-of-plane magnetic field. Historically, studies of the Hall effect have led to major breakthroughs including the discoveries of Berry curvature and the…

Noncentrosymmetric metals are anticipated to exhibit a $dc$ photocurrent in the nonlinear optical response caused by the Berry curvature dipole in momentum space. Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are expected to be excellent candidates for observing…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-10 Yang Zhang , Yan Sun , Binghai Yan

The Berry curvature (BC) - a quantity encoding the geometric properties of the electronic wavefunctions in a solid - is at the heart of different Hall-like transport phenomena, including the anomalous Hall and the non-linear Hall and Nernst…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Canio Noce , Andrea D. Caviglia , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

We calculate the thermoelectric transport of spin-orbit coupled conduction electrons in the presence of topological spin textures. We show, within a controlled, semiclassical approach that includes all phase space Berry curvatures, that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Zachariah Addison , Lauren Keyes , Mohit Randeria

Two-dimensional materials are a fertile ground for exploring quantum geometric phenomena, with Berry curvature and its first moment, the Berry curvature dipole, playing a central role in their electronic response. These geometric properties…

In this paper, we study the Berry curvature induced linear and nonlinear magnon transport in bilayer van der Waals antiferromagnets, where we deduce forms for the spin and energy currents within the semiclassical Boltzmann formalism under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Rohit Mukherjee , Sonu Verma , Arijit Kundu