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The topological properties of a material's electronic structure are encoded in its Berry curvature, a quantity which is intimately related to the transverse electrical conductivity. In transition metal dichalcogenides with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Fei Xue , V. P. Amin , P. M. Haney

Nonlinear Hall effects have been previously investigated in non-centrosymmetric systems for electronic systems. However, they only exist in metallic systems and are not compatible with ferroelectrics since these latter are insulators, hence…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-28 W. Luo , J. Y. Ji , P. Chen , Y. Xu , L. F. Zhang , H. J. Xiang , L. Bellaiche

We introduce the intrinsic nonlinear planar thermal Hall effect (NPTHE)-- a dissipationless thermal response proportional to $(\nabla T)^2B$, which arises when the temperature gradient $\nabla T$ and magnetic field $\mathbf{B}$ lie within…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Chanchal K. Barman

The topology between Bloch states in reciprocal space has attracted tremendous attention in recent years. The quantum geometry of the band structure is composed of quantum metric as real part and berry curvature as imaginary part. While the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Junjian Mi , Jialin Li , Miaocong Li , Sheng Xu , Shuang Yu , Zheng Li , Xinyi Fan , Huanfeng Zhu , Qian Tao , Linjun Li , Zhuan Xu

The nonlinear optical behavior of quantum systems plays a crucial role in various photonic applications. This study introduces a novel framework for understanding these nonlinear effects by incorporating gauge-covariant formulations based…

General Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Jingxu Wu , Chenjia Li

Phases arising from cyclic processes are fundamental in physics, bridging quantum and classical domains and providing deeper insights into the topology and dynamics of physical systems. This study investigates the accumulation of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kazi T. Mahmood , M. Arif Hasan

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

We consider the adiabatic evolution of the Dirac equation in order to compute its Berry curvature in momentum space. It is found that the position operator acquires an anomalous contribution due to the non Abelian Berry gauge connection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Alain Bérard , Herve Mohrbach

In recent years, it has been shown that Berry curvature monopoles and dipoles play essential roles in the anomalous Hall effect and the nonlinear Hall effect respectively. In this work, we demonstrate that Berry curvature multipoles (the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Cheng-Ping Zhang , Xue-Jian Gao , Ying-Ming Xie , Hoi Chun Po , K. T. Law

The recent discovery of the quantum nonlinear Hall effect has revived the field of nonlinear transport. Here, we predict magnetic field-induced nonlinear Hall effect in time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal. We show that the interplay of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Debottam Mandal , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

While the time-reversal-even (T-even) nonlinear Hall effect has been extensively discussed in nonmagnetic materials, the impact of magnetic phase transition on it remains largely overlooked. Here, we report an abrupt enhancement of the…

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

We have studied the spin dependent force and the associated momentum space Berry curvature in an accelerating system. The results are derived by taking into consideration the non relativistic limit of a generally covariant Dirac equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-24 Debashree Chowdhury , B. Basu

Quantum geometry, encoded in the Berry curvature and quantum metric, has unified diverse anomalous transport phenomena in solids, yet a microscopic quantum-geometric theory of entropy transport for Bloch electrons is still lacking. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Longjun Xiang , Jinxiong Jia , Jian Wang

Berry phase effect plays a central role in many mesoscale condensed matter and quantum chemical systems that are naturally under the environmental influence of dissipation. We propose and microscopically derive a prototypical quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

Under symmetry breaking, a three-dimensional nodal-line semimetal can turn into a topological insulator or Weyl semimetal, accompanied by the generation of momentum-space Berry curvature. We develop a theory that unifies their circular…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-31 Ying Liu , Shengyuan A. Yang , Fan Zhang

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

Berry phase plays an important role in many non-trivial phenomena over a broad range of many-body systems. In this thesis we focus on the Berry phase due to the change of the particles' momenta, and study its effects in free and interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 Jing-Yuan Chen

Berry curvature, as the imaginary component of quantum geometry, plays a crucial role in condensed matter physics. The spatial distribution of Berry curvature can be characterized by its dipole and multipole moments, which can induce the…

Perturbation theory is an indispensable tool in quantum mechanics and electrodynamics that handles weak effects on particle motion or fields. However, its extension to plasmons involving complex motion of {\it both} particles and fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov