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The quantum kinetic framework provides a versatile method for investigating the dynamical optical and transport currents of crystalline solids. In this paper, starting from the density-matrix equations of motion, we present a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Pankaj Bhalla , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal , Dimitrie Culcer

Light-induced coherent phonons provide a powerful platform for ultrafast control of material properties. However, the microscopic theory and quantum geometric nature of this phenomenon remain underexplored. Here, we develop a fully…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jiaming Hu , Zhichao Guo , Wenbin Li , Hua Wang , Kai Chang

Quantum geometry quantifies how the electron wavefunction evolves distinctly from conventional transport theory. In noncentrosymmetric materials, nonreciprocal transport with quantum geometric origin remains prominent with localized charge…

Quantum geometry governs a wide range of transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials. Recent works have explored analogue electromagnetism and gravity in terms of the quantum geometric tensor, whose real and imaginary parts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Maranzana , Koki Shinada , Ying-Ming Xie , Sergey Artyukhin , Naoto Nagaosa

Nonlinear phenomena are inherent in most systems in nature. Second or higher-order harmonic generations, three-wave and four-wave mixing are typical phenomena in nonlinear optics. To obtain a nonzero signal for second-harmonic generation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Zhou Li , Franco Nori

We present a quantum response approach to momentum-space gravity in dissipative multiband systems, which dresses both the quantum geometry--through an interband Weyl transformation--and the equations of motion. In addition to clarifying the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 M. Mehraeen

We show that spatially structured radiation generates second harmonic in a two-dimensional system even if the system is homogeneous and isotropic. The effect originates from non-locality of electric response to structured electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 A. A. Gunyaga , M. V. Durnev , S. A. Tarasenko

We show that, quite generally, quantum geometry plays a major role in determining the low-energy physics in strongly correlated lattice models at fractional band fillings. We identify limits in which the Fubini Study metric dictates the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-15 Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Kang Yang , Emil J. Bergholtz

We investigate an interplay between quantum geometrical effects and surface plasmons through surface plasmonic structures, based on an electron hydrodynamic theory. First we demonstrate that the quantum nonlinear Hall effect can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Riki Toshio , Norio Kawakami

Nonlinear magnetic response driven by time-periodic magnetic fields offers a distinct route to probe spin-resolved quantum geometry beyond conventional electric-field-driven nonlinear effects. While linear magnetic responses depend on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Neelanjan Chakraborti , Snehasish Nandy , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

Second harmonic generation has been applied to study lattice, electronic and magnetic proprieties in atomically thin materials. However, inversion symmetry breaking is usually required for the materials to generate a large signal. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-12 Zhuoliang Ni , Nan Huang , Amanda V. Haglund , David G. Mandrus , Liang Wu

Much of our understanding of gapless quantum matter stems from low-energy descriptions using conformal field theory. This is especially true in 1+1 dimensions, where such theories have an infinite-dimensional parameter space induced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Bastien Lapierre , Per Moosavi , Blagoje Oblak

Quantum geometry, including quantum metric and Berry curvature, which describes the topology of electronic states, can induce fascinating physical properties. Symmetry-dependent nonlinear transport has emerged as a sensitive probe of these…

Quantum geometry is a differential geometry based on quantum mechanics. It is related to various transport and optical properties in condensed matter physics. The Zeeman quantum geometry is a generalization of quantum geometry including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Motohiko Ezawa

Quantum Hall effects provide intuitive ways of revealing the topology in crystals, i.e., each quantized "step" represents a distinct topological state. Here, we seek a counterpart for "visualizing" quantum geometry, which is a broader…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 B. Q. Song , J. D. H. Smith , T. Jiang , Y. X. Yao , J. Wang

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

We study the second-harmonic generation in left-handed metamaterials with a quadratic nonlinear response. We demonstrate a novel type of the exact phase matching between the backward propagating wave of the fundamental frequency and the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ilya V. Shadrivov , Alexander A. Zharov , Yuri S. Kivshar

The nonlinear Hall effect has recently garnered significant attention as a powerful probe of Fermi surface quantum geometry in metals. While current studies mainly focus on the nonlinear Hall response driven by quasi-static electric fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Wen-Yu He , K. T. Law

We consider some general aspects of the new noncommutative or quantum geometry coming out of the theory of quantum groups, in connection with Planck scale physics. A generalisation of Fourier or wave-particle duality on curved spaces…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 S. Majid

The electric magnetochiral anisotropy is a nonreciprocal phenomenon accessible via second harmonic transport in noncentrosymmetric, time-reversal invariant materials, in which the rectification of current, ${\bf I}$, can be controlled by an…