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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…

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Quantum materials are characterized by electromagnetic responses intrinsically linked to the geometry and topology of electronic wavefunctions, encoded in the quantum metric and Berry curvature. Whereas Berry curvature-mediated transport…

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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

Band geometry plays a substantial role in topological lattice models. The Berry curvature, which resembles the effect of magnetic field in reciprocal space, usually fluctuates throughout the Brillouin zone. Motivated by the analogy with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-11 Daniel Varjas , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Kang Yang , Emil J. Bergholtz

We propose a generalized quantum geometric tenor to understand topological quantum phase transitions, which can be defined on the parameter space with the adiabatic evolution of a quantum many-body system. The generalized quantum geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 Yu-Quan Ma , Shu Chen , Heng Fan , Wu-Ming Liu

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

Sliding is a ubiquitous phenomenon in moir\'e systems, but its direct influence on moir\'e bands, especially in multi-twist moir\'e systems, has been largely overlooked to date. Here, we theoretically show that sliding provides a unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Shi-Ping Ding , Miao Liang , Tian-Le Wu , Meng-Hao Wu , Jing-Tao Lü , Jin-Hua Gao , X. C. Xie

We study the dynamics of electrons in crystalline solids in the presence of inhomogeneous external electric and magnetic fields. We present a manifestly gauge-invariant operator-based approach without relying on a semiclassical wavepacket…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Chen Xu , Andreas Haller , Suraj Hegde , Tobias Meng , Thomas L. Schmidt

The usual concepts of topological physics, such as the Berry curvature, cannot be applied directly to non-Hermitian systems. We show that another object, the quantum metric, which often plays a secondary role in Hermitian systems, becomes a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 D. D. Solnyshkov , C. Leblanc , L. Bessonart , A. Nalitov , J. Ren , Q. Liao , F. Li , G. Malpuech

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

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

Topological Physics relies on the specific structure of the eigenstates of Hamiltonians. Their geometry is encoded in the quantum geometric tensor containing both the celebrated Berry curvature, crucial for topological matter, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 A. Gianfrate , O. Bleu , L. Dominici , V. Ardizzone , M. De Giorgi , D. Ballarini , K. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , D. D. Solnyshkov , D. Sanvitto , G. Malpuech

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…

We discover the connection between the Berry curvature and the Riemann curvature tensor in any kinematic space of minimal surfaces anchored on spherical entangling surfaces. This new holographic principle establishes the Riemann geometry in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Xing Huang , Chen-Te Ma

Quantum geometry characterizes the variation of wavefunctions in momentum space through their overlaps and relative phases, providing a general framework for understanding many transport and optical properties. It is generally formulated in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Alejandro S. Miñarro , Gervasi Herranz

Topological phase transitions are typically characterized by abrupt changes in a quantized invariant. Here we report a contrasting paradigm in non-Hermitian parity-time symmetric systems, where the topological invariant remains conserved,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Kang Yang , Zhi Li , Peng Xue , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

Topological flat bands play an essential role in inducing exotic interacting physics, ranging from fractional Chern insulators to superconductivity, in moir\'e materials. In this work, we propose a design principle for realizing topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Yunzhe Liu , Anoj Aryal , Kaijie Yang , Dumitru Calugaru , Zhenyao Fang , Haoyu Hu , Qimin Yan , B. Andrei Bernevig , Chao-xing Liu

The momentum space of topological insulators and topological superconductors is equipped with a quantum metric defined from the overlap of neighboring valence band states or quasihole states. We investigate the quantum geometrical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-25 Wei Chen

The following two loosely connected sets of topics are reviewed in these lecture notes: 1) Gauge invariance, its treatment in field theories and its implications for internal symmetries and edge states such as those in the quantum Hall…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. P. Balachandran

The quantum geometric tensor, which has the quantum metric and Berry curvature as its real and imaginary parts, plays a key role in the transport properties of condensed matter systems. In the nonlinear regime, the quantum metric dipole and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Xu Yang , Brian Skinner