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The anomalous velocity term in the semiclassical model of a Bloch electron deviates the trajectory from the conventional one. When the Berry curvature (alias noncommutative parameter) is a monopole in momentum space as found recently in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 P. A. Horvathy

Berry curvature dipole plays an important role in various nonlinear quantum phenomena. However, the maximum symmetry allowed for nonzero Berry curvature dipole in the transport plane is a single mirror line, which strongly limits its…

The topological properties of a material's electronic structure are encoded in its Berry curvature, a quantity which is intimately related to the transverse electrical conductivity. In transition metal dichalcogenides with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Fei Xue , V. P. Amin , P. M. Haney

Nonlinear Hall effect arises in materials without inversion symmetry, and the intrinsic contribution is typically from Berry curvature dipole of non-universal Fermi pockets. Here we propose that nonlinear Hall effect can reach quantization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-12 Nikolai Peshcherenko , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

We predict a nonlinear Hall effect in certain Weyl semimetals with broken inversion symmetry. When the energy dispersions about pairs of Weyl nodes are skewed -- the Weyl cones are "tilted" -- the concerted actions of the anomalous velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Rui-Hao Li , Olle G. Heinonen , Anton A. Burkov , Steven S. -L. Zhang

The recently discovered nonlinear Hall effect (NHE) in a few non-interacting systems provides a novel mechanism to generate second harmonic electrical Hall signals under time-reversal-symmetric conditions. Here, we introduce a new approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Jinxin Hu , Xiangbin Cai , En Li , Liheng An , Xuemeng Feng , Ziqing Ye , Nian Lin , Kam Tuen Law , Ning Wang

The nonlinear Hall effect has attracted considerable attention and undergone extensive investigation in recent years. However, theoretical studies addressing size-dependent effects remain largely unexplored. In this work, we establish a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Xinyu Liu , Haozhi Liao , Guangyun Qi , Hao Geng , Li Sheng , Dingyu Xing

The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) connects crystalline symmetry to quantum geometry, offering a probe of band topology beyond linear transport. While most studies have focused on the Berry curvature dipole in low-symmetry crystals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Heda Zhang , Nikolai Peshcherenko , Ning Mao , Nianlong Zou , Jiaqiang Yan , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

The layer Hall effect describes electrons spontaneously deflected to opposite sides at different layers, which has been experimentally reported in the MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ thinfilms under perpendicular electric fields [Gao et al., Nature 595, 521…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Rui Chen , Hai-Peng Sun , Mingqiang Gu , Chun-Bo Hua , Qihang Liu , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

For a long period of time, we have been seeking how Berry curvature influnces the transport properties in materials breaking time-reversal symmetry. In time-reversal symmetric material, there will be no thermoelectric current induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Hongchao Li

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

Nonlinear transport plays a vital role in probing the quantum geometry of Bloch electrons, valley chirality, and carrier scattering mechanisms. The nonlinear Hall effect, characterized by a nonlinear scaling of Hall voltage with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xin Liao , Xing-Yu Liu , An-Qi Wang , Qing Yin , Tong-Yang Zhao , Zhi-Min Liao

In recent years, it has been shown that Berry curvature monopoles and dipoles play essential roles in the anomalous Hall effect and the nonlinear Hall effect respectively. In this work, we demonstrate that Berry curvature multipoles (the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Cheng-Ping Zhang , Xue-Jian Gao , Ying-Ming Xie , Hoi Chun Po , K. T. Law

We investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves through materials displaying a non-linear Hall effect. The coupled Maxwell-Boltzmann equations for traveling waves can be mapped onto ordinary differential equations that resemble…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Falko Pientka , Inti Sodemann Villadiego

Berry curvature (BC) governs topological phases of matter and generates anomalous transport. When a magnetic field is applied, phonons can acquire BC indirectly through spin-lattice coupling, leading to a linear phonon Hall effect. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 Jino Im , Choong H. Kim , Hosub Jin

The Berry curvature dipole induced by symmetry breaking play a pivotal role in electronic transport properties and nonlinear responses, such as the nonlinear Hall effect and circular photogalvanic effect. The study of the Berry curvature…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-05 Wenzhe Zhou , Dehe Zhang , Guibo Zheng , Yinheng Li , Fangping Ouyang

We investigate the intrinsic nonlinear valley Nernst effect, which induces a transverse valley current via a second-order thermoelectric response to a longitudinal temperature gradient. The effect arises from the Berry connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Xue-Jin Zhang , Jin Cao , Lulu Xiong , Hui Wang , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

In a series of recent papers anomalous Hall and Nernst effects have been theoretically discussed in the non-linear regime and have seen some early success in experiments. In this paper, by utilizing the role of Berry curvature dipole, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

The planar Hall effect (PHE) is the appearance of an in-plane transverse voltage in the presence of coplanar electric and magnetic fields. Its hallmark is a characteristic $\pi$-periodic, i.e. even under a magnetic field reversal, angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Raffaele Battilomo , Niccoló Scopigno , Carmine Ortix

Electrons moving in a Bloch band are known to acquire an anomalous Hall velocity proportional to the Berry curvature of the band which is responsible for the intrinsic linear Hall effect in materials with broken time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 O. Matsyshyn , I. Sodemann