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Symmetry is a cornerstone of condensed matter physics, fundamentally shaping the behavior of electronic systems and inducing the emergence of novel phenomena. The Hall effect, a key concept in this field, demonstrates how symmetry breaking,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Shuo Wang , Wei Niu , Yue-Wen Fang

The quantum geometric tensor, which has the quantum metric and Berry curvature as its real and imaginary parts, plays a key role in the transport properties of condensed matter systems. In the nonlinear regime, the quantum metric dipole and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Xu Yang , Brian Skinner

We numerically investigate the second-order nonlinear Hall transport properties of a four-terminal system with time-reversal symmetry and broken inversion symmetry. Within the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism, the second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Miaomiao Wei , Bin Wang , Yunjin Yu , Fuming Xu , Jian Wang

The Nernst and Seebeck effects are crucial for thermoelectric energy harvesting. However, the linear anomalous Nernst effect requires magnetic materials with intrinsically broken time-reversal symmetry. In non-magnetic systems, the dominant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Harsh Varshney , Amit Agarwal

In time-reversal invariant systems, all charge Hall effects predicted so far are extrinsic effects due to the dependence on the relaxation time. We explore intrinsic Hall signatures by studying quantum noise spectrum of the Hall current in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Miaomiao Wei , Luyang Wang , Bin Wang , Longjun Xiang , Fuming Xu , Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang

We investigate the intrinsic nonlinear valley Nernst effect, which induces a transverse valley current via a second-order thermoelectric response to a longitudinal temperature gradient. The effect arises from the Berry connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Xue-Jin Zhang , Jin Cao , Lulu Xiong , Hui Wang , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

The $z$-component of the N\'{e}el vector is measurable by the anomalous Hall conductivity in altermagnets because time reversal symmetry is broken. On the other hand, it is a nontrivial problem how to measure the in-plane component of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Motohiko Ezawa

Quantum geometry, encoded in the Berry curvature and quantum metric, has unified diverse anomalous transport phenomena in solids, yet a microscopic quantum-geometric theory of entropy transport for Bloch electrons is still lacking. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Longjun Xiang , Jinxiong Jia , Jian Wang

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

Motivated by the nonlinear Hall effect observed in topological semimetals, we studied the photocurrent by the quantum kinetic equation. We recovered the shift current and injection current discovered by Sipe et al., and the nonlinear Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-23 Zhi Li , Takami Tohyama , Toshiaki Iitaka , Haibin Su , Haibo Zeng

The geometric structure of quantum states plays a fundamental role in determining the intrinsic dynamics of electrons in solids. In this work, we study the geometric origin of orbital angular momentum and its transport in a general two-band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Jongjun M. Lee

Quantum materials are characterized by electromagnetic responses intrinsically linked to the geometry and topology of electronic wavefunctions, encoded in the quantum metric and Berry curvature. Whereas Berry curvature-mediated transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Giacomo Sala , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Klevis Domi , Stefano Gariglio , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix , Andrea D. Caviglia

Berry curvature, a momentum space property, can manifest itself in current responses. The well-known anomalous Hall effect in time-reversal-breaking systems arises from a Berry curvature monopole. In time-reversal-invariant materials, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Tohid Farajollahpour , R. Ganesh , Kirill Samokhin

In recent years, nonlinear transport phenomena have garnered significant interest in both theoretical explorations and experiments. In this work, we utilize the semi-classical wave packet theory to calculate disorder-induced second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Ying-Fei Zhang , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Hua Jiang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

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

Quantum geometry of the electron wave function plays a significant role in the linear and non-linear responses of crystalline materials. Here, we study quantum geometry induced second harmonic generation. We identify non-linear responses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Pankaj Bhalla , Kamal Das , Dimitrie Culcer , Amit Agarwal

Quantum geometry may enable the development of quantum phases ranging from superconductivity to correlated topological states. One powerful probe of quantum geometry is the nonlinear Hall response which detects Berry curvature dipole in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Yuan Fang , Shouvik Sur , Yonglong Xie , Qimiao Si

Nonlinear transport phenomena in condensed matter reflect the geometric nature, quantum coherence, and many-body correlation of electronic states. Electric currents in solids are classified into (i) Ohmic current, (ii) supercurrent, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa

The Berry curvature dipole is well-known to cause Hall conductivity. This study expands on previous results to demonstrate how two- and three-dimensional materials react under a tilted magnetic field in the linear and nonlinear regimes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Narjes Kheirabadi , YuanDong Wang

We consider the nonlinear response of a disordered two-dimensional electronic system, lacking inversion symmetry, to an external alternating electric field. The application of an in-plane static magnetic field induces local contributions to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Maxim Dzero , Jaglul Hasan , Alex Levchenko