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The Berry curvature characterizes one aspect of the geometry of quantum states. It materializes, among other consequences, as an anomalous velocity of wave packets. In non-Hermitian systems, wave packet dynamics is enriched by additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Jan Behrends , Roni Ilan , Moshe Goldstein

The paper examines the emergence of gauge fields during the evolution of a particle with a spin that is described by a matrix Hamiltonian with n different eigenvalues. It is shown that by introducing a spin gauge field a particle with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Yu. Bliokh , Yu. P. Bliokh

The use of coherent optical dressing of atomic levels allows the coupling of ultracold atoms to effective gauge fields. These can be used to generate effective magnetic fields, and have the potential to generate non-Abelian gauge fields. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-17 Stavros Komineas , Nigel R. Cooper

We study the properties of an ultracold Fermi gas loaded in an optical square lattice and subjected to an external and classical non-Abelian gauge field. We show that this system can be exploited as an optical analogue of relativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 N. Goldman , A. Kubasiak , A. Bermudez , P. Gaspard , M. Lewenstein , M. A. Martin-Delgado

We have studied particle motion in generalized forms of noncommutative phase space, that simulate monopole and other forms of Berry curvature, that can be identified as effective internal magnetic fields, in coordinate and momentum space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Basu , Subir Ghosh , S. Dhar

Here, we introduce and apply non-Abelian tensor Berry connections to topological phases in multi-band systems. These gauge connections behave as non-Abelian antisymmetric tensor gauge fields in momentum space and naturally generalize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Giandomenico Palumbo

Periodicity of long wavelength moir\'e patterns is very often destroyed by the inhomogeneous strain introduced in fabrications of van der Waals layered structures. We present a framework to describe massive Dirac fermions in such distorted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

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

Dirac fermions in graphene can be subjected to non-abelian gauge fields by implementing certain modulations of the carbon site potentials. Artificial graphene, engineered with a lattice of CO molecules on top of the surface of Cu, offers an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Fernando de Juan

The motion of electron wave packets in the Dirac semimetals A$_3$Bi (A=Na,K,Rb) is studied in a semiclassical approximation. Because of the two-fold degeneracy of the Dirac points and a momentum-dependent gap term in the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

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

We present a unified theory for wave-packet dynamics of electrons in crystals subject to perturbations varying slowly in space and time. We derive the wave-packet energy up to the first order gradient correction and obtain all kinds of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ganesh Sundaram , Qian Niu

We introduce a new term into the Dirac equation based on the Lorentz symmetry violation background in order to make a theoretical description of the relativistic quantum dynamics of a spin-half neutral particle, where the wave function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-12 K. Bakke , H. Belich

Motivated by the fermionic Berry's phase in momentum space, we study a local Abelian phase in momentum space coupled to electromagnetism, for complex scalars in the phase-space worldline formalism. The interaction of both Abelian fields is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Patrick Copinger , Pablo Morales

An approach to the quantum-classical mechanics of phase space dependent operators, which has been proposed recently, is remodeled as a formalism for wave fields. Such wave fields obey a system of coupled non-linear equations that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Sergi

The non-Abelian gauge fields play a key role in achieving novel quantum phenomena in condensed-matter and high-energy physics. Recently, the synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields have been created in the neutral degenerate Fermi gases, and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-06-10 Kuang Zhang , Yanlin Feng , Chuanwei Zhang , Gang Chen , Suotang Jia

We generalise the celebrated semiclassical wavepacket approach from the adiabatic to the non-adiabatic regime. A unified description covering both of these regimes is particularly desired for systems with spatially varying band structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Ci Li , Wang Yao

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a genuine quantum effect typically characterized by a measurable phase shift in the wave function for a charged particle that encircles an electromagnetic field located in a region inaccessible to the mentioned…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Jose A. R. Cembranos , David García-López , Zoe G. del Toro

Gauge theories, while describing fundamental interactions in nature, also emerge in a wide variety of physical systems. Abelian gauge fields have been predicted and observed in a number of novel quantum many-body systems, topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-02 T. Li , L. A. Yeoh , A. Srinivasan , O. Klochan , D. A. Ritchie , M. Y. Simmons , O. P. Sushkov , A. R Hamilton

\emph{Effective} gauge fields arise in the description of the dynamics of defects in lattices of graphene in condensed matter. The interactions between neighboring nodes of a lattice/spin-network are described by the Hubbard model whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-04 Deepak Vaid