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Berry curvature is ubiquitous in condensed matter physics and materials science. Its main consequence is the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in magnetic materials and plays a pivotal role in spintronic applications and quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-07 Satoshi Okamoto , Adriana Moreo , Naoto Nagaosa , Stuart S. P. Parkin

Effects manifesting quantum geometry have been a focus of physics research. Here, we reveal that quantum metric plays a crucial role in nonlinear electric spin response, leading to a quantum metric spin-orbit torque. We argue that enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Xukun Feng , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Weibo Gao , Lay Kee Ang , Y. X. Zhao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

We decompose the intrinsic second-order nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) of a generic multiband system into its quantum-geometric contributions within a fully quantum-mechanical, projector-based formalism. By expanding the nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yannis Ulrich , Johannes Mitscherling , Laura Classen , Andreas P. Schnyder

The electrical Hall effect is the production of a transverse voltage under an out-of-plane magnetic field. Historically, studies of the Hall effect have led to major breakthroughs including the discoveries of Berry curvature and the…

The quantum geometry, comprising Berry curvature and quantum metric, plays a fundamental role in governing electron transport phenomena in solids. Recent studies show that the quantum metric dipole drives scattering-free nonlinear Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Tong-Yang Zhao , An-Qi Wang , Zhen-Tao Zhang , Zheng-Yang Cao , Xing-Yu Liu , Zhi-Min Liao

One of the most celebrated accomplishments of modern physics is the description of fundamental principles of nature in the language of geometry. As the motion of celestial bodies is governed by the geometry of spacetime, the motion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Tianyu Liu , Xiao-Bin Qiang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

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 experimental and theoretical studies have revealed the emergence of a linear layer Hall effect (LHE) induced by hidden Berry curvature in \textrm{MnBi}$_{2}$\textrm{Te}$_{4}$ thin films. This phenomenon underscores the layer degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zhuo-Hua Chen , Hou-Jian Duan , Ming-Xun Deng , Rui-Qiang Wang

Anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is the key transport signature unlocking topological properties of magnetic materials. While AHE is usually proportional to the magnetization, the nonlinearity suggests the existence of complex magnetic and…

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

The surface states of 3D topological insulators possess geometric structures that imprint distinctive signatures on electronic transport. A prime example is the Berry curvature, which controls, for instance, electric frequency doubling via…

The thermoelectric transport properties of nanostructured devices continue to attract attention from theorists and experimentalist alike as the spatial confinement allows for a controlled approach to transport properties of correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefan Kirchner , Farzaneh Zamani , Enrique Muñoz

The second-order nonlinear current originates from three physical mechanisms: extrinsic nonlinear Drude and Berry curvature dipole and intrinsic Berry connection polarizability. Here, we predict a new intrinsic contribution to the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Kamal Das , Shibalik Lahiri , Rhonald Burgos Atencia , Dimitrie Culcer , Amit Agarwal

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE), which provides a bridgeway between the geometry of quantum wavefunctions and transport measurements, has been a key focus of intensive studies. In addition to the well-studied linear AHE, governed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Xu Zhang , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

The quantum geometry plays a crucial role in the nonlinear transport of quantum materials. Here, we use the Boltzmann transport formalism to study the magnetic control of nonlinear transport induced by the quantum metric in two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Xu Chen , Mingbo Dou , Qin Zhang , Xianjie Wang , M. Ye. Zhuravlev , A. V. Nikolaev , L. L. Tao

The interplay between quantum geometry and magnetic order offers a novel strategy for designing next-generation nanodevices. Here, we demonstrate that interlayer magnetic coupling in two-dimensional (2D) CoPSe3 bilayers enables precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Zhenning Sun , Tao Wang , Hao Jin , Xinru Li , Yadong Wei , Jian Wang

The third-order nonlinear Hall effect induced by Berry-connection polarizability tensor has been observed in Weyl semimetals T$_d$-MoTe$_2$ as well as T$_d$-TaIrTe$_4$. The experiments were performed on bulk samples, and the results were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Miaomiao Wei , Longjun Xiang , Luyang Wang , Fuming Xu , Jian Wang

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

Large intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) due to the Berry curvature in magnetic topological semimetals is attracting enormous interest due to its fundamental importance and technological relevance. Mechanisms resulting in large intrinsic…

We review our recent works on the quantum transport, mainly in topological semimetals and also in topological insulators, organized according to the strength of the magnetic field. At weak magnetic fields, we explain the negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Hai-Peng Sun , Hai-Zhou Lu