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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

The electronic topology is generally related to the Berry curvature, which can induce the anomalous Hall effect in time-reversal symmetry breaking systems. Intrinsic monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides possesses two nonequivalent K…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Mao-Sen Qin , Peng-Fei Zhu , Xing-Guo Ye , Wen-Zheng Xu , Zhen-Hao Song , Jing Liang , Kaihui Liu , Zhi-Min Liao

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

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

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

In the presence of time reversal symmetry, a non-linear Hall effect can occur in systems without an inversion symmetry. One of the prominent candidates for detection of such Hall signals are Weyl semimetals. In this article, we investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Saswata Roy , Awadhesh Narayan

This paper focuses on the study of linear exciton Hall and Nernst effects in monolayer two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, employing the semi-classical transport theory. By deriving the exciton Berry curvature in momentum space for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Weilong Guo , Lianguo Li , Qingjun Tong , Ci Li

2D materials based superlattices have emerged as a promising platform to modulate band structure and its symmetries. In particular, moir\'e periodicity in twisted graphene systems produces flat Chern bands. The recent observation of…

Topological effects arising from the Berry curvature lead to intriguing transport signatures in quantum materials. Two such phenomena are the chiral anomaly and nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE). A unified description of these transport regimes…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Dhruv C. Desai , Lauren A. Tan , Jin-Jian Zhou , Shiyu Peng , Jinsoo Park , Marco Bernardi

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

In a time-reversal invariant system, while the anomalous Hall effect identically vanishes in the linear response regime due to the constraint of time-reversal symmetry on the distribution of Berry curvature, a nonlinear Hall effect can…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-30 Zi-Shan Liao , Hong-Hao Zhang , Zhongbo Yan

Nonlinear responses in condensed matters attract recent intensive interest because they provide rich information about the materials and hold the possibility of being applied in diodes or high-frequency optical devices. Nonlinear responses…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Yoshihiro Michishita , Naoto Nagaosa

Drude weight, historically associated with the longitudinal Drude conductivity, can be generalized to describe the transverse or Hall component of the extrinsic conductivity tensor. In particular, transverse Drude weights, such as band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Miaomiao Wei , Longjun Xiang , Fuming Xu , Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang

The Hall effect occurs only in systems with broken time-reversal symmetry, such as solids under an external magnetic field in the ordinary Hall effect and magnetic materials in the anomalous Hall effect (AHE). Here we show a new Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Kaifei Kang , Tingxin Li , Egon Sohn , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

We demonstrate robust and reversible electric-current control of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in a two-dimensional WTe2/Fe3GeTe2 (FGT) stack. Applying a current through Td-WTe2 leads to a giant modulation of the AHE of the adjacent FGT…

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

The valley Hall effect arises from valley contrasting Berry curvature and requires inversion symmetry breaking. Here, we propose a nonlinear mechanism to generate a valley Hall current in systems with both inversion and time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Kamal Das , Koushik Ghorai , Dimitrie Culcer , Amit Agarwal

It has been known that the semiclassical theory and the response theory can equivalently give the Drude and the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivities in the linear order of electric field. However, recent theoretical advances implied that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Jinxiong Jia , Longjun Xiang , Zhenhua Qiao , Jian Wang

Quantum geometry plays a pivotal role in the second-order response of $\cal PT$-symmetric antiferromagnets. Here we study the nonlinear response of 2D altermagnets protected by $C_n\cal T$ symmetry and show that their leading nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi

In recent years, there is an increasing interest in transport phenomena that are fundamentally linked to the presence of multiple bands. In this thesis, we develop, discuss, and apply a theory of the electrical conductivity that includes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-19 Johannes Mitscherling