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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

Electrons performing Bloch oscillations in an energy band of a dc-biased superlattice in the presence of weak dissipation can potentially generate THz fields at room temperature. The realization of such Bloch oscillator is a long-standing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 Timo Hyart , Natalia V. Alexeeva , Jussi Mattas , Kirill N. Alekseev

We consider a model of an electron in a crystal moving under the influence of an external electric field: Schr\"{o}dinger's equation with a potential which is the sum of a periodic function and a general smooth function. We identify two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Alexander B. Watson , Jianfeng Lu , Michael I. Weinstein

The second-order nonlinear Hall effect illuminates a frequency-doubling transverse current emerging in quantum materials with broken inversion symmetry even when time-reversal symmetry is preserved. This nonlinear response originates from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Jinrui Zhong , Junxi Duan , Shihao Zhang , Huimin Peng , Qi Feng , Yuqin Hu , Qinsheng Wang , Jinhai Mao , Jianpeng Liu , Yugui Yao

Berry curvature does not show itself in the relative phase correlation of wave-functions at different spatial points in a metal unless the fermions have closed trajectories in momentum space, for example those around isolated impurities.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Chandra M. Varma

Higgs spectroscopy, the study of Higgs bosons of a superconductor, is an emerging field in studying superconductivity. Here we show that the Berry curvature and the quantum metric of bands play a central role in the Higgs mode generation.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-16 Kristian Hauser A. Villegas , Bo Yang

We consider Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms stored in a one-dimensional vertical optical lattice and simultaneously interacting with a unidirectionally pumped optical ring cavity whose vertical arm is collinear with the optical…

In a semiconductor superlattice with long scattering times, damping of Bloch oscillations due to scattering is so small that convective nonlinearities may compensate it and Bloch oscillations persist even in the hydrodynamic regime. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 L. L. Bonilla , M. Álvaro , M. Carretero

The nonlinear Hall effect has recently attracted significant interest due to its potential as a promising spectral tool and device applications. A theory of the nonlinear Hall effect on a disordered lattice is a crucial step towards…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Rui Chen , Z. Z. Du , Hai-Peng Sun , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

We consider Bloch electrons in the presence of the uniform electromagnetic field in two- and three-dimensions. It is renowned that the quantized Hall effect occurs in such systems. We suppose a weak and homogeneous electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Goryo , M. Kohmoto

We show that superlattices based on zero-gap semiconductors such as graphene and mercury telluride exhibit characteristic Bloch--Zener oscillations that emerge from the coherent superposition of Bloch oscillations and multiple Zener…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 Viktor Krueckl , Klaus Richter

A semiconductor superlattice with hot electron injection into the miniband is considered. The injection changes the stationary distribution function and results in a qualitative change of the frequency behaviour of the differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. A. Ryndyk , N. V. Demarina , J. Keller , E. Schomburg

We describe the charge transport in ferromagnets with spin orbit coupled Bloch bands by combining the wave-packet evolution equations with the classical Boltzmann equation. This approach can be justified in the limit of smooth disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. A. Sinitsyn , Qian Niu , Jairo Sinova , K. Nomura

We comment on the relation between Berry phase and quantized Hall conductivities for charge and spin currents in some Bloch states, such as Bloch electrons in the presence of electromagnetic fields and quasiparticles in the vortex states of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Jun Goryo , Mahito Kohmoto

The propagation of electrons in an orbital multiplet dispersing on a lattice can support anomalous transport phenomena deriving from an orbitally-induced Berry curvature. In striking contrast to the related situation in graphene, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 Vo Tien Phong , Zachariah Addison , Seongjin Ahn , Hongki Min , Ritesh Agarwal , E. J. Mele

Semiclassical dynamics of Bloch electrons in a crystal under slowly varying deformation is developed in the geometric language of a lattice bundle. Berry curvatures and gradients of energy are introduced in terms of lattice covariant…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-03 Liang Dong , Qian Niu

Moir\'e superlattices formed at the interface between stacked two-dimensional atomic crystals offer limitless opportunities to design materials with widely tunable properties and engineer intriguing quantum phases of matter. However,…

Cold atoms in an optical lattice provide an ideal platform for studying Bloch oscillations. Here, we extend Bloch oscillations to two superposed optical lattices that are accelerated away from one another, and for the first time show that…

We show that the quantum Zeno effect gives rise to the Hall effect by tailoring the Hilbert space of a two-dimensional lattice system into a single Bloch band with a nontrivial Berry curvature. Consequently, a wave packet undergoes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Zongping Gong , Sho Higashikawa , Masahito Ueda

We consider the motion of charge carriers in a bulk wide-gap dielectric interacting with a few-cycle laser pulse. A semiclassical model based on Bloch equations is applied to describe the emerging time-dependent macroscopic currents for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Vladislav S. Yakovlev