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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 present a systematic microscopic derivation of the semiclassical Boltzmann equation for band structures with the finite Berry curvature based on Keldysh technique of nonequilibrium systems. In the analysis, an ac electrical driving field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

The nonlinear Hall effect, which is the second-order harmonic charge Hall effect from the Berry curvature dipole in momentum space, has received much attention recently. As the responses to higher harmonics of the driving ac electric field…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-14 Zhi-Fan Zhang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

We study the interplay of electron-electron and electron-disorder scattering in correlated Fermi liquids by the disordered Hubbard model using dynamical mean-field theory with an IPT-CPA solver. We find significant violations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-25 Arianna Poli , Simone Fratini , Jennifer Coulter , Andrew J. Millis , Sergio Ciuchi

The Smrcka-Streda version of Kubo's linear response formula is widely used in the literature to compute non-equilibrium transport properties of heterostructures. It is particularly useful for the evaluation of intrinsic transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Varga Bonbien , Aurelien Manchon

We explicitly calculate the density-density response function with conserving vertex corrections for anisotropic multiband systems in the presence of impurities including long-range disorder. The direction-dependence of the vertex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 Jeonghyeon Suh , Sunghoon Kim , E. H. Hwang , Hongki Min

There are a variety of nonlinear optical effects including higher harmonic generations, photovoltaic effects, and nonlinear Kerr rotations. They are realized by the strong light irradiation to materials that results in nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

The aim of this paper is to offer an analytic theory of the shear banding instability in amorphous solids that are subjected to athermal quasi-static shear. To this aim we derive nonlinear equations for the displacement field, including the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Avanish Kumar , Itamar Procaccia

We study the dynamics of electrons in crystalline solids in the presence of inhomogeneous external electric and magnetic fields. We present a manifestly gauge-invariant operator-based approach without relying on a semiclassical wavepacket…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Chen Xu , Andreas Haller , Suraj Hegde , Tobias Meng , Thomas L. Schmidt

The semi-classical Bloch-Boltzmann theory is at the heart of our understanding of conduction in solids, ranging from metals to semi-conductors. Physical systems that are beyond the range of applicability of this theory are thus of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-12-18 Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly De Laissardière

It has recently been realized that the first-order moment of the Berry curvature, namely the Berry curvature dipole (BCD) can give rise to non-linear current in a wide variety of time-reversal invariant and non-centrosymmetric materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Sai Satyam Samal , S. Nandy , Kush Saha

We investigate the electronic Raman scattering in pure, quasi-one dimensional conductors with density wave ground state. In particular, we develop the theory of light-scattering on spin and charge density waves, both conventional and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 András Ványolos , Attila Virosztek

We systematically investigate nonlinear Ohmic responses in second-harmonic generation and bilinear magnetoelectric effects within the Matsubara Green's function formalism. The optical nonlinear Ohmic conductivity is shown to consist of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Anwei Zhang , Zheng Cai , C. M. Wang

Using ultrashort laser pulses, it has become possible to probe the dynamics of long-range order in solids on microscopic timescales. In the conventional description of symmetry-broken phases within time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-08 Antonio Picano , Francesco Grandi , Martin Eckstein

Recent progress in experimental techniques has made it possible to extract detailed information on dynamics of carriers in a correlated electron material from its optical conductivity, $\sigma(\Omega, T)$. This review consists of three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-09 Dmitrii L. Maslov , Andrey V. Chubukov

Nonlinear responses in condensed matters attract recent intensive interest because they provide rich information about the materials and hold the possibility of being applied in diodes or high-frequency optical devices. Nonlinear responses…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Yoshihiro Michishita , Naoto Nagaosa

The absence of a well-defined Fermi surface in flat-band systems challenges the conventional understanding of instabilities toward Landau order based on nesting. We investigate the existence of an intrinsic nesting structure encoded in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-06 Jia-Xin Zhang , Wen O. Wang , Leon Balents , Lucile Savary

The detailed derivation of a theory for transport in quasi-two-dimensional metals, with small-angle elastic scattering and angle-independent inelastic scattering is presented. The transport equation is solved for a model Fermi surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Elihu Abrahams , C. M. Varma

We study the in-plane and out-of-plane density ordering instabilities of quasi-two-dimensional fermionic polar molecules in single-layer and multi-layer configurations. We locate the soft modes by evaluating linear response functions within…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-06 Mehrtash Babadi , Eugene Demler

The phenomenology of charge transport in synthetic metals is reviewed. It is argued that the conventional quasiparticle picture and Boltzmann transport theory do not apply to these materials. The central ideas of Fermi liquid theory are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. J. Emery , S. A. Kivelson , V. N. Muthukumar