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The $\alpha$-$T_3$ model is characterized by a variable Berry phase that changes continuously from $\pi$ to $0$. We take advantage of this property to highlight the effects of this underlying geometrical phase on a number of physical…

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We study infrared divergences in quantum electrodynamics using geometric phases and the adiabatic approximation in quantum field theory. In this framework, the asymptotic \textit{in} and \textit{out} states are modified by Berry phases,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-03 J. Gamboa

Many quantum materials of interest, ex., bilayer graphene, possess a number of closely spaced but not fully degenerate bands near the Fermi level, where the coupling to the far detuned remote bands can induce Berry curvatures of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Ci Li , Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Wang Yao

Topological quantum liquids contain internal degrees of freedom that are coupled to geometric response. Yet, an explicit and microscopic identification of geometric response remains difficult. Here, taking notable fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-10 Liangdong Hu , Zhao Liu , D. N. Sheng , F. D. M. Haldane , W. Zhu

We investigate the geometric phase or Berry phase of adiabatic quantum evolution in an atom-molecule conversion system, and find that the Berry phase in such system consists of two parts: the usual Berry connection term and a novel term…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Li-Bin Fu , Jie Liu

The evolution of a quantum system is governed by the associated Hamiltonian. A system defined by a parameter-dependent Hamiltonian acquires a geometric phase when adiabatically evolved. Such an adiabatic evolution of a system having…

Quantum eigenstates undergoing cyclic changes acquire a phase factor of geometric origin. This phase, known as the Berry phase, or the geometric phase, has found applications in a wide range of disciplines throughout physics, including…

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Physics arising from two-dimensional~(2D) Dirac cones has been a topic of great theoretical and experimental interest to studies of gapless topological phases and to simulations of relativistic systems. Such $2$D Dirac cones are often…

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Quantum geometry - the geometry of electron Bloch wavefunctions - is central to modern condensed matter physics. Due to the quantum nature, quantum geometry has two parts, the real part quantum metric and the imaginary part Berry curvature.…

Gate-based quantum computers can in principle simulate the adiabatic dynamics of a large class of Hamiltonians. Here we consider the cyclic adiabatic evolution of a parameter in the Hamiltonian. We propose a quantum algorithm to estimate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Bruno Murta , G. Catarina , J. Fernandez-Rossier

Whenever a quantum system undergoes a cycle governed by a slow change of parameters, it acquires a phase factor: the geometric phase. Its most common formulations are known as the Aharonov-Bohm, Pancharatnam and Berry phases, but both prior…

Quantum geometry and topology are fundamental concepts of modern condensed matter physics, underpinning phenomena ranging from the quantum Hall effect to protected surface states. The Berry curvature, a central element of this framework, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Giancarlo Soavi , Jan Wilhelm

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a physical phenomenon where the vector potential induces a phase shift of electron wavepackets in regions with zero magnetic fields. It is often referred to as evidence for the physical reality of the vector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Francesco Di Colandrea , Nazanin Dehghan , Filippo Cardano , Alessio D'Errico , Ebrahim Karimi

Ever since its discovery, the Berry phase has permeated through all branches of physics. Over the last three decades, it was gradually realized that the Berry phase of the electronic wave function can have a profound effect on material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-01 Di Xiao , Ming-Che Chang , Qian Niu

We study the Magneto-Electric (ME) effect from the viewpoint of the Berry phase connection and quantum adiabatic charge transport (QAPT). The linear response theory for the electronic polarization $\vec{P}_{\rm{el}}$ can be interpreted in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ryuichi Shindou , Naoto Nagaosa

Adiabatic time evolution of degenerate eigenstates of a quantum system provides a means for controlling electronic states since mixing between degenerate levels generates a matrix Berry phase. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. -R. Eric Yang

We consider the ground state of an electron gas embedded in a quantum gyrotropic cavity. We show that the light-matter interaction leads to a nontrivial topology of the many-body electron-photon wave function characterized by a nonzero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Ilya Tokatly , Dmitry Gulevich , Ivan Iorsh

The adiabatic theorem states that when the time evolution of the Hamiltonian is "infinitely slow", a system, when started in the ground state, remains in the instantaneous ground state at all times. This, however, does not mean that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Raffaele Resta

Berry curvature fundamentally dictates the topological ground state, anomalous transport and optical properties of quantum materials. However, directly mapping its momentum-space distribution in real materials remains an outstanding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Louis Primeau , Qiong Ma , Yang Zhang

Recent work has shown that the low energy sector of certain quantum Hall states is adiabatically connected to simple charge-density-wave patterns that appear, e.g., when the system is deformed into a thin torus. Here it is shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Seidel