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We study Chern insulators from the point of view of K\"ahler geometry, i.e. the geometry of smooth manifolds equipped with a compatible triple consisting of a symplectic form, an integrable almost complex structure and a Riemannian metric.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Bruno Mera , Tomoki Ozawa

The orbital magnetic susceptibility of an electron gas in a periodic potential depends not only on the zero field energy spectrum but also on the geometric structure of cell-periodic Bloch states which encodes interband effects. In addition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Frédéric Piéchon , Arnaud Raoux , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Gilles Montambaux

The past few years have seen a revived interest in quantum geometrical characterizations of band structures due to the rapid development of topological insulators and semi-metals. Although the metric tensor has been connected to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Adrien Bouhon , Abigail Timmel , Robert-Jan Slager

A unified expression for topological invariants has been proposed recently to describe the topological order in Dirac models belonging to any dimension and symmetry class. We uncover a correspondence between the curvature function that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Gero von Gersdorff , Wei Chen

Geometrical properties of energy bands underlie fascinating phenomena in a wide-range of systems, including solid-state materials, ultracold gases and photonics. Most famously, local geometrical characteristics like the Berry curvature can…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-20 Martin Wimmer , Hannah M. Price , Iacopo Carusotto , Ulf Peschel

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

The importance of simple geometrical invariants, such as the Berry curvature and quantum metric, constructed from the Bloch states of a crystal has become well-established over four decades of research. More complex aspects of geometry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-07 Johannes Mitscherling , Alexander Avdoshkin , Joel E. Moore

This article is an expository account aimed at viewing entanglement in finite-dimensional quantum many-body systems as a phenomenon of global geometry. While the mathematics of general quantum states has been studied extensively, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Kazuki Ikeda

The geometric properties of quantum states is fully encoded by the quantum geometric tensor. The real and imaginary parts of the quantum geometric tensor are the quantum metric and Berry curvature, which characterize the distance and phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Jun-Feng Ren , Jing Li , Hai-Tao Ding , Dan-Wei Zhang

Quantum geometry, which describes the geometry of Bloch wavefunctions in solids, has become a cornerstone of modern quantum condensed matter physics. The quantum geometrical tensor encodes this geometry through two fundamental components:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-04 Anyuan Gao , Naoto Nagaosa , Ni Ni , Su-Yang Xu

We analyze quantum-geometric bounds on optical weights in topological phases with pairs of bands hosting nontrivial Euler class, a multigap invariant characterizing non-Abelian band topology. We show how the bounds constrain the combined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Arthur S. Morris , Adrien Bouhon , F. Nur Ünal , Robert-Jan Slager

We reveal strong and weak inequalities relating two fundamental macroscopic quantum geometric quantities, the quantum distance and Berry phase, for closed paths in the Hilbert space of wavefunctions. We recount the role of quantum geometry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Praveen Pai , Fan Zhang

The geometric properties of quantum states are crucial for understanding many physical phenomena in quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, and optics. The central object describing these properties is the quantum geometric tensor,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Marius A. Oancea , Thomas B. Mieling , Giandomenico Palumbo

The topological Euler characteristic number of the energy band proposed in our previous work (see Yu-Quan Ma et al., arXiv:1202.2397; EPL 103, 10008 (2013)) has been recently experimentally observed by X. Tan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Yu-Quan Ma

Quantum metric, a fundamental component of quantum geometry, has attracted broad interest in recent years due to its critical role in various quantum phenomena. Meanwhile, band topology, which serves as an important framework in condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xing-Lei Ma , K. T. Law

Quantum geometry defines the phase and amplitude distances between quantum states. The phase distance is characterized by the Berry curvature and thus relates to topological phenomena. The significance of the full quantum geometry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-20 Paivi Torma

Quantum geometry governs a wide range of transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials. Recent works have explored analogue electromagnetism and gravity in terms of the quantum geometric tensor, whose real and imaginary parts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Maranzana , Koki Shinada , Ying-Ming Xie , Sergey Artyukhin , Naoto Nagaosa

Berry curvature is a fundamental element to characterize topological quantum physics, while a full measurement of Berry curvature in momentum space was not reported for topological states. Here we achieve two-dimensional Berry curvature…

In this note we present preliminary study on the relation between the quantum entanglement of boundary states and the quantum geometry in the bulk in the framework of spin networks. We conjecture that the emergence of space with non-zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-25 Yi Ling , Yikang Xiao , Meng-He Wu

The importance of the quantum metric in flat-band systems has been noticed recently in many contexts such as the superfluid stiffness, the dc electrical conductivity, and ideal Chern insulators. Both the quantum metric of degenerate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Bruno Mera , Johannes Mitscherling