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As a measure of the quantum distance between Bloch states in the Hilbert space, the quantum metric was introduced to solid-state physics through the real part of the so-called geometric Fubini-Study tensor, the imaginary part of which…

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The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) characterizes the complete geometric properties of quantum states, with the symmetric part being the quantum metric, and the antisymmetric part being the Berry curvature. We propose a generic Hamiltonian…

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The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) is a fundamental concept for characterizing the local geometry of quantum states. After casting the geometry of pure quantum states and extracting the QGT, we generalize the geometry to mixed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Xu-Yang Hou , Zheng Zhou , Xin Wang , Hao Guo , Chih-Chun Chien

The geometric formulation of quantum mechanics is a very interesting field of research which has many applications in the emerging field of quantum computation and quantum information, such as schemes for optimal quantum computers. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 Ole Andersson , Hoshang Heydari

For decades, ``geometry" in band theory has largely meant Berry phase and Berry curvature-quantities that reshape semiclassical dynamics and underpin modern topological matter. Yet the full geometric content of a Bloch band is richer and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Bohm-Jung Yang

The geometry of the parameter space is encoded by the quantum geometric tensor, which captures fundamental information about quantum states and contains both the quantum metric tensor and the curvature of the Berry connection. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Diego Gonzalez , Daniel Gutierrez-Ruiz , J. David Vergara

Geometry and topology are fundamental to modern condensed matter physics, but their precise connection in quantum systems remains incompletely understood. Here, we develop an analytical scheme for calculating the curvature of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Shin-Ming Huang

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

In this work, we review different generalizations of the quantum geometric tensor (QGT) in two-band non-Hermitian systems and propose a protocol for measuring them in experiments. We present the generalized QGT components, i.e. the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Y. -M. Robin Hu , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Eliezer Estrecho

Over the years, Berry curvature, which is associated with the imaginary part of the quantum geometric tensor, has profoundly impacted many branches of physics. Recently, quantum metric, the real part of the quantum geometric tensor, has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Xiao-Bin Qiang , Tianyu Liu , Zi-Xuan Gao , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

In Hilbert space, the geometry of the quantum state is identified by the quantum geometric tensor (QGT), whose imaginary part is the Berry curvature and real part is the quantum metric tensor. Here, we propose and experimentally implement a…

For pure states, the quantum Berry curvature was well studied. However, the quantum curvature for mixed states has received less attention. From the concept of symmetric logarithmic derivative, we introduce a mixed-state quantum curvature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Xiaoguang Wang , Xiao-Ming Lu , Yunbo Zhang , Libin Fu , Shu Chen

The space of quantum states can be endowed with a metric structure using the second order derivatives of the relative entropy, giving rise to the so-called Kubo-Mori-Bogoliubov inner product. We explore its geometric properties on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Harry J. D. Miller

We experimentally observe the quantum geometric tensor, namely the quantum metric and the Berry curvature, for a square lattice of radiatively coupled plasmonic nanoparticles. We observe a non-zero Berry curvature and show that it arises…

Quantum geometry has emerged as a central and ubiquitous concept in quantum sciences, with direct consequences on quantum metrology and many-body quantum physics. In this context, two fundamental geometric quantities are known to play…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Bruno Mera , Anwei Zhang , Nathan Goldman

We review quantum gravity model building using the new formalism of `quantum Riemannian geometry' to construct this on finite discrete spaces and on fuzzy ones such as matrix algebras. The formalism starts with a `differential structure' as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-07 J. N. Argota-Quiroz , S. Majid

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 eigenvalues of a parameter-dependent Hamiltonian matrix form a band structure in parameter space. In such $N$-band systems, the quantum geometric tensor (QGT), consisting of the Berry curvature and quantum metric tensors, is usually…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-18 Ansgar Graf , Frédéric Piéchon

We introduce a new method to compute the Quantum Geometric Tensor, this procedure allows us to compute the Quantum Information Metric and the Berry curvature perturbatively for a theory with an arbitrary interaction Hamiltonian. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 J. Alvarez-Jiménez , J. David Vergara

Quantum state space is endowed with a metric structure and Riemannian monotone metric is an important geometric entity defined on such a metric space. Riemannian monotone metrics are very useful for information-theoretic and statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Prasenjit Deb