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Geometric analogs of Bloch oscillations studied so far have relied on Berry curvature. We show that a weakly inhomogeneous electric field adds a distinct quantum-metric term to semiclassical wavepacket dynamics, generating an oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 M. Maneesh Kumar , Md Kaif Faiyaz , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We investigate transport phenomena and dynamical effects in flat bands where the band dispersion plays no role. We show that wavepackets in geometrically non-trivial flat bands can display dynamics when inhomogeneous electric fields are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jing-Xin Liu , Giandomenico Palumbo , Marco Di Liberto

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

We study the magnetic Bloch oscillations performed by a quantum particle moving in a two-dimensional lattice in the presence of a strong (synthetic) magnetic field and a uniform force. An elementary derivation of the Berry curvature effect…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-25 Marco Cominotti , Iacopo Carusotto

Within the wave-packet semiclassical approach, the Bloch electron energy is derived to second order in the magnetic field and classified into gauge-invariant terms with clear physical meaning, yielding a fresh understanding of the complex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Yang Gao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Qian Niu

The orbital magnetic susceptibility of an electron gas in a periodic potential depends not only on the zero field energy spectrum but also on the geometric structure of cell-periodic Bloch states which encodes interband effects. In addition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Frédéric Piéchon , Arnaud Raoux , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Gilles Montambaux

Two-dimensional materials are a fertile ground for exploring quantum geometric phenomena, with Berry curvature and its first moment, the Berry curvature dipole, playing a central role in their electronic response. These geometric properties…

Bloch electrons in multiorbital systems carry quantum geometric information characteristic of their wavevector-dependent interorbital mixing. The geometric nature impacts electromagnetic responses, and this effect carries over to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-11 Weipeng Chen , Wen Huang

The geometry of electronic bands in a solid can drastically alter single-particle charge and spin transport. We show here that collective optical excitations arising from Coulomb interactions also exhibit unique signatures of Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-16 Ajit Srivastava , Ataç Imamoğlu

The Berry curvature (BC) - a quantity encoding the geometric properties of the electronic wavefunctions in a solid - is at the heart of different Hall-like transport phenomena, including the anomalous Hall and the non-linear Hall and Nernst…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Canio Noce , Andrea D. Caviglia , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

When nanometric, noncoplanar spin textures with scalar spin chirality (SSC) are coupled to itinerant electrons, they endow the quasiparticle wavefunctions with a gauge field, termed Berry curvature, in a way that bears analogy to…

Geometrical properties of energy bands underlie fascinating phenomena in a wide-range of systems, including solid-state materials, ultracold gases and photonics. Most famously, local geometrical characteristics like the Berry curvature can…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-20 Martin Wimmer , Hannah M. Price , Iacopo Carusotto , Ulf Peschel

Topological properties lie at the heart of many fascinating phenomena in solid state systems such as quantum Hall systems or Chern insulators. The topology can be captured by the distribution of Berry curvature, which describes the geometry…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-31 N. Fläschner , B. S. Rem , M. Tarnowski , D. Vogel , D. -S. Lühmann , K. Sengstock , C. Weitenberg

The ability to engineer the electronic band structure and, more strikingly, to access new exotic phase of matter has been the cornerstone of the advance of science and technology. Twisting van der Waals materials to form moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Sheng-Chin Ho , Ching-Hao Chang , Yu-Chiang Hsieh , Shun-Tsung Lo , Botsz Huang , Thi-Hai-Yen Vu , Carmine Ortix , Tse-Ming Chen

The Berry curvature provides a powerful tool to unify several branches of science through their geometrical aspect: topology, energy bands, spin and vector fields. While quantum defects -- phase vortices and skyrmions -- have been in the…

The band geometric properties of quantum materials play an elemental role in the linear and nonlinear transport of electrons. In this paper, we propose that the interplay of the Berry curvature, the orbital magnetic moment and the Lorentz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Shibalik Lahiri , Tanmay Bhore , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

We show that the position-momentum duality offers a transparent interpretation of the band geometry at the topological band crossings. Under this duality, the band geometry with Berry connection is dual to the free-electron motion under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Yu-Ping Lin , Wei-Han Hsiao

Exploring the topological characteristics of electronic bands is essential in condensed matter physics. Moir\'e materials featuring flat bands provide a versatile platform for engineering band topology and correlation effects. In moir\'e…

Quantum geometry, which describes the geometry of Bloch wavefunctions in solids, has become a cornerstone of modern quantum condensed matter physics. The quantum geometrical tensor encodes this geometry through two fundamental components:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-04 Anyuan Gao , Naoto Nagaosa , Ni Ni , Su-Yang Xu

Artificial crystals such as moir\'e superlattices can have a real-space periodicity much larger than the underlying atomic scale. This facilitates the presence of Bloch oscillations in the presence of a static electric field. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Christophe De Beule , E. J. Mele
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