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Berry phases strongly affect the properties of crystalline materials, giving rise to modifications of the semiclassical equations of motion that govern wave-packet dynamics. In non-Hermitian systems, generalizations of the Berry connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Navot Silberstein , Jan Behrends , Moshe Goldstein , Roni Ilan

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

The quantum geometric properties of a Bloch state in momentum space are usually described by the Berry curvature and quantum metric. In realistic gapped materials where interactions and disorder render the Bloch state not a viable starting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-24 Wei Chen , Gero von Gersdorff

We show that Berry's geometrical (topological) phase for circular quantum dots with an odd number of electrons is equal to \pi and that eigenvalues of the orbital angular momentum run over half-integer values. The non-zero value of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. D. Mur , N. B. Narozhny , A. N. Petrosyan , Yu. E. Lozovik

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

We report on the study of the non-trivial Berry phase in superconducting multiterminal quantum dots biased at commensurate voltages. Starting with the time-periodic Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations, we obtain a tight binding model in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Benoit Doucot , Romain Danneau , Kang Yang , Jean-Guy Caputo , Régis Mélin

The geometric characteristics of Bloch wave functions play a crucial role in electronic transport properties. We show that the thermoelectric performance of materials is governed by the geometric structure of Bloch wave functions within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Chang-geun Oh , Kun Woo Kim , Jun-Won Rhim

The recent discovery of copper-substituted lead phosphate apatite, also known as LK-99, has caught much attention owing to certain experimental evidence of room-temperature superconductivity, although this claim is currently under intensive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-10 Wei Chen

We theoretically investigate how the Berry curvature, which arises in multi-band structures when the electrons can be described by an effective single-band Hamiltonian, affects the superconducting properties of two-dimensional electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Florian Simon , Louis Pagot , Marc Gabay , Mark O. Goerbig

We elaborate that $s$-wave and $d$-wave superconductors described by mean field theories possess a nontrivial quantum geometry. From the overlap of two quasihole states at slightly different momenta, one can define a quantum metric that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-13 David Porlles , Wei Chen

Quantum materials are characterized by electromagnetic responses intrinsically linked to the geometry and topology of electronic wavefunctions, encoded in the quantum metric and Berry curvature. Whereas Berry curvature-mediated transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Giacomo Sala , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Klevis Domi , Stefano Gariglio , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix , Andrea D. Caviglia

The usual concepts of topological physics, such as the Berry curvature, cannot be applied directly to non-Hermitian systems. We show that another object, the quantum metric, which often plays a secondary role in Hermitian systems, becomes a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 D. D. Solnyshkov , C. Leblanc , L. Bessonart , A. Nalitov , J. Ren , Q. Liao , F. Li , G. Malpuech

Berry phases have long been known to significantly alter the properties of periodic systems, resulting in anomalous terms in the semiclassical equations of motion describing wave-packet dynamics. In non-Hermitian systems, generalizations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Bar Alon , Roni Ilan , Moshe Goldstein

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…

The geometric properties of quantum states is fully encoded by the quantum geometric tensor. The real and imaginary parts of the quantum geometric tensor are the quantum metric and Berry curvature, which characterize the distance and phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Jun-Feng Ren , Jing Li , Hai-Tao Ding , Dan-Wei Zhang

The complete quantum metric of a parametrized quantum system has a real part (usually known as the Provost-Vallee metric) and a symplectic imaginary part (known as the Berry curvature). In this paper, we first investigate the relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Balázs Hetényi , Péter Lévay

We reveal strong and weak inequalities relating two fundamental macroscopic quantum geometric quantities, the quantum distance and Berry phase, for closed paths in the Hilbert space of wavefunctions. We recount the role of quantum geometry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Praveen Pai , Fan Zhang

We calculate Berry's phase when the driving field, to which a spin-1/2 is coupled adiabatically, rather than the familiar classical magnetic field, is a quantum vector operator, of noncommuting, in general, components, e.g., the angular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Pedro Aguilar , Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos , Edgar Guzman

We study signatures of magnetic quantum oscillations in three-dimensional nodal line semimetals at zero temperature. The extended nature of the degenerate bands can result in a Fermi surface geometry with topological genus one, as well as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Hui Yang , Roderich Moessner , Lih-King Lim

The importance of the quantum metric in flat-band systems has been noticed recently in many contexts such as the superfluid stiffness, the dc electrical conductivity, and ideal Chern insulators. Both the quantum metric of degenerate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Bruno Mera , Johannes Mitscherling