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Berry curvature is a fundamental element to characterize topological quantum physics, while a full measurement of Berry curvature in momentum space was not reported for topological states. Here we achieve two-dimensional Berry curvature…

We study the local and topological features of Berry phases associated with the adiabatic transport of vortices in a d-wave superconductor of lattice fermions. At half filling, where the local Berry curvature must vanish due to symmetries,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-03 Zhenyu Zhou , Oskar Vafek , Alexander Seidel

We investigate quantum phase transitions, quantum criticality, and Berry phase for the ground state of an ensemble of non-interacting two-level atoms embedded in a non-linear optical medium, coupled to a single-mode quantized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 C. A. Estrada Guerra , J. Mahecha-Gómez , J. G. Hirsch

We show that Hall viscosity in lattice bands is governed by a band-projected electric quadrupole encoded within the quantum geometry: Berry curvature sets the projected-coordinate algebra, while the quantum metric determines the quadrupolar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Danyu Shu , Ryotaro Sano , Ai Yamakage , Hiroshi Funaki , Mamoru Matsuo

We describe the theory of the dynamics of atoms in two-dimensional quasicrystalline optical lattices. We focus on a regime of shallow lattice depths under which the applied force can cause Landau-Zener tunneling past a dense hierarchy of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-17 Stephen Spurrier , Nigel R. Cooper

The orbital magnetic susceptibility of an electron gas in a periodic potential depends not only on the zero field energy spectrum but also on the geometric structure of cell-periodic Bloch states which encodes interband effects. In addition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Frédéric Piéchon , Arnaud Raoux , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Gilles Montambaux

The Berry connection encodes the momentum-space geometry of occupied Bloch states in gapped insulators and plays a central role in topological materials. While gauge-invariant quantities can be evaluated from overlap matrices between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Trey Cole , David Vanderbilt

In multi-band systems, electrons from different orbitals coexist at the Fermi surface. An attractive interaction among these quasi-particles gives rise to inter-band or hybrid pairs which eventually condense in a superconducting state.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 Heron Caldas , Mucio A. Continentino

Bloch electrons in multiorbital systems carry nontrivial quantum geometric information characteristic of their orbital composition as a function of their wave vector. When such electrons form Cooper pairs, the resultant superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-10 Weipeng Chen , Wen Huang

The theoretical identification of crystalline topological materials has enjoyed sustained success in simplified materials models, often by singling out discrete symmetry operations protecting the topological phase. When band structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Emanuele Maggio

Berry curvature that describes local geometrical properties of energy bands can elucidate many fascinating phenomena in solid-state, photonic, and phononic systems, given its connection to global topological invariants such as the Chern…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-21 Xuefan Yin , Ye Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zixuan Zhang , Susumu Noda , Chao Peng

Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ is a well known 3D-topological insulators(TI) with a non-trivial Berry phase of $ \left(2n+1\right)\pi $ attributed to the topology of the band structure. The Berry phase shows non-topological deviations from $…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Parijat Sengupta

Quantum geometry and topology are fundamental concepts of modern condensed matter physics, underpinning phenomena ranging from the quantum Hall effect to protected surface states. The Berry curvature, a central element of this framework, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Giancarlo Soavi , Jan Wilhelm

The complexity of itinerant and many-body nature in Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) wavefunctions has traditionally led to the use of coarse-grained order parameters for describing currents in superconductors (SC), rather than directly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-25 B. Q. Song , J. D. H. Smith , J. Wang

We consider the semiclassical quantization condition for the energy of an electron in a magnetic field in the case when the electron orbit lies on a Fermi-surface pocket surrounding the Weyl point of a topological semimetal and analyze the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 G. P. Mikitik , Yu. V. Sharlai

In quantum mechanics it is often required to describe in a semiclassical approximation the motion of particles moving within a given energy band. Such a representation leads to the appearance of an analogues of fictitious forces in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Eldad Bettelheim

Flat-band materials have attracted substantial interest for their intriguing quantum geometric effects. Here we investigate how singular flat bands (SFBs) respond to a static, uniform electric field and whether they can support…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Xuanyu Long , Feng Liu

Electron motion in crystals is governed by the coupling between crystal momentum and internal degrees of freedom such as spin implicit in the band structure. The description of this coupling in terms of a momentum-dependent effective field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 F. Couëdo , H. Irie , T. Akiho , K. Suzuki , K. Onomitsu , K. Muraki

We introduce pathangled quantum states, spatially correlated systems governed via production angles, to achieve geometric control of entanglement beyond spin/polarization constraints. By driving the system through cyclic adiabatic evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 H. O. Cildiroglu

We study ground-state correlation functions in one- and two-dimensional lattice models of interacting spinful fermions - BCS-like models, which exhibit continuous quantum phase transitions. The considered models originate from a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-23 Mariusz Adamski , Janusz Jędrzejewski , Taras Krokhmalskii
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