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An overview is given of recent advances in the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of quantum systems and, especially, of time-reversal symmetry relations that have been discovered in this context. The systems considered are driven out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Pierre Gaspard

A key step towards dissipationless transport devices is the quantum anomalous Hall effect, which is characterized by an integer quantized Hall conductance in a ferromagnetic insulator with strong spin-orbit coupling. In this work, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

The transport of Bloch electrons under strong fields is traditionally understood through two mechanisms: intraband Bloch oscillations and interband Zener tunneling. Here, we propose an oscillation mechanism induced by the interband quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Hui Zeng , Zijian Zhou , Wenhui Duan , Huaqing Huang

In this work, we derive a generalized constitutive relation describing the current response to external electromagnetic fields in electrically biased quantum materials. While our semiclassical Boltzmann approach reveals the existence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 D. J. P. de Sousa , C. O. Ascencio , Tony Low

The quantum Hall effect was originally observed in a two-dimensional electron gas forming Landau levels when exposed to a strong perpendicular magnetic field and was later generalized to Chern insulators without net magnetization. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Benjamin Michen , Jan Carl Budich

We study the quantum nonlinear Hall effect in two-dimensional materials with time-reversal symmetry. When only one mirror line exists, a transverse charge current occurs in second-order response to an external electric field, as a result of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Jhih-Shih You , Shiang Fang , Su-Yang Xu , Efthimios Kaxiras , Tony Low

The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) connects crystalline symmetry to quantum geometry, offering a probe of band topology beyond linear transport. While most studies have focused on the Berry curvature dipole in low-symmetry crystals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Heda Zhang , Nikolai Peshcherenko , Ning Mao , Nianlong Zou , Jiaqiang Yan , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

The coupling between internal degrees of freedom of quantum systems and their overall motion in an external gravitational field plays a central role in multiple extensions of Einstein's equivalence principle to quantum physics. While…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Thomas B. Mieling

The quantum theory of conductivity of semiconductor objects, to which the quantum wells, wires and dots concern, is constructed. Average values of current and charge densities, induced by a weak electromagnetic field, are calculated. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. G. Lang , L. I. Korovin , J. A. de la Cruz Alcaz , S. T. Pavlov

The quantum Hall effect and the quantum anomalous Hall effect both require time-reversal invariance to be broken. We show that non-equilibrium effects can cause Hall physics to arise even when the system is weakly time-reversal symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Alexander Fagerlund , Christopher Ekman , Rodrigo Arouca

Magnetic topological semimetals often exhibit unusual electronic and thermal transport due to nontrivial bulk band crossings, enabling simultaneous realization of large anomalous Hall and Nernst conductivities ($\sigma_{xy}$ and…

As a measure of the quantum distance between Bloch states in the Hilbert space, the quantum metric was introduced to solid-state physics through the real part of the so-called geometric Fubini-Study tensor, the imaginary part of which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-29 M. Iskin

We theoretically study thermal transport in an electronic interferometer comprising a parallel circuit of two quantum dots, each of which has a tunable single electronic state which are connected to two leads at different temperature.As a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sam Young Cho , Ross H. McKenzie

We present a study of electric, thermal and thermoelectric response in noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn$_{3}$Sn, which hosts a large Anomalous Hall Effect (AHE). Berry curvature generates off-diagonal thermal(Righi-Leduc) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Xiaokang Li , Liangcai Xu , Linchao Ding , Jinhua Wang , Mingsong Shen , Xiufang Lu , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

An analytic approach to the electron transport phenomena in molecular devices is presented. Analyzed devices are composed of organic molecules attached to the two semi-infinite electrodes. Molecular system is described within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

We explore the motion of a classical particle in a symmetric potential with non-Gaussian skewed white noise. We show analytically and numerically that the presence of nonzero odd moments leads to a macroscopic current. For a noise with a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Rangan Lahiri

The nonlinear Nernst and Seebeck effects (NNE and NSE) offer promising routes for thermoelectric energy conversion in non-magnetic systems. While intrinsic mechanisms such as the nonlinear Drude and Berry-curvature-dipole terms are well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Harsh Varshney , Amit Agarwal

We theoretically investigate an intrinsic nonlinear anomalous Hall effect (INAHE) in space-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric antiferromagnetic metals. The INAHE is characterized by an asymmetric and non-dissipative part of the second-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-10 Akimitsu Kirikoshi , Satoru Hayami

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

The nonlinear conductance of a one-dimensional quantum wire adiabatically coupled to Fermi Liquid electron reservoirs is determined in presence of an impurity. We show that electron-electron interaction in connection with the finite length…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabrizio Dolcini , Hermann Grabert , Ines Safi , Bjoern Trauzettel