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Berry phase and the related concept of Berry curvature can give rise to many unconventional phenomena in solids. In this work, we discover colossal orbital Zeeman effect of topological origin in a newly synthesized bilayer kagome metal…

Berry phase physics is closely related to a number of topological states of matter. Recently discovered topological semimetals are believed to host a nontrivial $\pi$ Berry phase to induce a phase shift of $\pm 1/8$ in the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 C. M. Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

A phase transition between topologically distinct insulating phases involves closing and reopening of the bandgap. Close to this topological phase transition, the bulk energy spectrum is characterized by a massive Dirac dispersion, where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-13 Joshua Mutch , Wei-Chih Chen , Preston Went , Tiema Qian , Ilham Zaky Wilson , Anton Andreev , Cheng-Chien Chen , Jiun-Haw Chu

We have observed the Berry phase effect associated with interband coherence in topological surface states (TSSs) using two-color high-harmonic spectroscopy. This Berry phase accumulates along the evolution path of strong field-driven…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-10 Ya Bai , Yang Jiang , Wenyang Zheng , Jiayin Chen , Shuo Wang , Candong Liu , Ruxin Li , Peng Liu

Transport due to spin-helical massless Dirac fermion surface state is of paramount importance to realize various new physical phenomena in topological insulators, ranging from quantum anomalous Hall effect to Majorana fermions. However, one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 Luis A. Jauregui , Michael T. Pettes , Leonid P. Rokhinson , Li Shi , Yong P. Chen

The Berry phase is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics with profound implications for understanding topological properties of quantum systems. This tutorial provides a comprehensive introduction to the Berry phase, beginning with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Nico Sprinkart , Elke Scheer , Angelo Di Bernardo

Berry phase and Berry curvature play a key role in the development of topology in physics and do contribute to the transport properties in solid state systems. In this paper, we report the finding of novel nonzero Hall effect in topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Jun Ge , Da Ma , Yanzhao Liu , Huichao Wang , Yanan Li , Jiawei Luo , Tianchuang Luo , Ying Xing , Jiaqiang Yan , David Mandrus , Haiwen Liu , X. C. Xie , Jian Wang

Three-dimensional topological semimetals hosting Dirac or Weyl fermions are a new kind of materials class in which conduction and valence bands cross each other. Such materials harbor a nontrivial Berry phase, which is an additional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-24 P. R. Mandal , Kefeng Wang , Tarapada Sarkar , Prathum Saraf , Danila Sokratov , Johnpierre Paglione

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

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

Displacement field control of elecronic bands in low-dimensional systems is a promising route toward engineering emergent quantum phases. Here, we report displacement-field-induced band inversion and modulation of the Berry phase of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Harsimran Kaur Mann , Simrandeep Kaur , Safil Mullick , Priya Tiwari , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Aveek Bid

We report a transport, thermodynamic, and spectroscopic study of the recently identified topological semiconductor ZrTe$_5$ with a focus on elucidating the connections between its band structure and unusual thermoelectric properties. Using…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-22 Junbo Zhu , Changmin Lee , Fahad Mahmood , Takehito Suzuki , Shiang Fang , Nuh Gedik , Joseph G. Checkelsky

The Berry phase, a fundamental geometric phase in quantum systems, has become a crucial tool for probing the topological properties of materials. Quantum oscillations, such as Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations, are widely used to extract…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Bogdan M. Fominykh , Valentin Yu. Irkhin , Vyacheslav V. Marchenkov

Topological materials host robust properties, unaffected by microscopic perturbations, owing to the global topological properties of the bulk electron system. Materials in which the topological invariant can be changed by easily tuning…

Quantum oscillations can be used to determine properties of the Fermi surface of metals by varying the magnitude and orientation of an external magnetic field. Topological insulator surface states are an unusual mix of normal and Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-11 Anthony R. Wright , Ross H. McKenzie

Electronic band structures dictate the mechanical, optical and electrical properties of crystalline solids. Their experimental determination is therefore of crucial importance for technological applications. While the spectral distribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 C. Dutreix , H. González-Herrero , I. Brihuega , M. I. Katsnelson , C. Chapelier , V. T. Renard

We study topological properties of phase transition points of two topologically non-trivial $\mathbb{Z}_2$ classes (D and DIII) in one dimension by assigning a Berry phase defined on closed circles around the gap closing points in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-20 Linhu Li , Chao Yang , Shu Chen

We study the effects of temperature on the topological nature of ZrTe$_5$, which sits near the phase boundary between strong and weak topological insulating orders. Using first-principles calculations, we show that the band gap and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-25 Bartomeu Monserrat , Awadhesh Narayan

Magnetic semimetals have increasingly emerged as lucrative platforms hosting spin-based topological phenomena in real and momentum spaces. Of particular interest is the emergence of Berry curvature, whose geometric origin, accessibility…

The effect of strain in zigzag ribbons of monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides with induced superconductivity is studied using a minimal 3-band tight-binding model. The unstrained system shows a topological phase with Majorana zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Linhu Li , Eduardo V. Castro , Pedro D. Sacramento
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