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The surface states of 3D topological insulators possess geometric structures that imprint distinctive signatures on electronic transport. A prime example is the Berry curvature, which controls, for instance, electric frequency doubling via…

The Berry curvature and quantum metric are the imaginary part and real part, respectively, of the quantum geometric tensor which characterizes the topology of quantum states. The former is known to generate a zoo of important discoveries…

The study of quantum geometry effects in materials has been one of the most important research directions in recent decades. The quantum geometry of a material is characterized by the quantum geometry tensor of the Bloch states. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-17 Hui Li , Chengping Zhang , Chengjie Zhou , Chen Ma , Xiao Lei , Zijing Jin , Hongtao He , Baikui Li , Kam Tuen Law , Jiannong Wang

The band geometric properties of quantum materials play an elemental role in the linear and nonlinear transport of electrons. In this paper, we propose that the interplay of the Berry curvature, the orbital magnetic moment and the Lorentz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Shibalik Lahiri , Tanmay Bhore , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

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

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

Quantum geometry - the geometry of electron Bloch wavefunctions - is central to modern condensed matter physics. Due to the quantum nature, quantum geometry has two parts, the real part quantum metric and the imaginary part Berry curvature.…

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…

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

Effects manifesting quantum geometry have been a focus of physics research. Here, we reveal that quantum metric plays a crucial role in nonlinear electric spin response, leading to a quantum metric spin-orbit torque. We argue that enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Xukun Feng , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Weibo Gao , Lay Kee Ang , Y. X. Zhao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

The combination of quantum geometry and magnetic geometry in magnets excites diverse phenomena, some critical for antiferromagnetic spintronics. However, very few material platforms have been predicted and experimentally verified to date,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-28 Haiyuan Zhu , Jiayu Li , Xiaobing Chen , Yutong Yu , Qihang Liu

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

Quantum geometry, including quantum metric and Berry curvature, which describes the topology of electronic states, can induce fascinating physical properties. Symmetry-dependent nonlinear transport has emerged as a sensitive probe of these…

The quantum geometric properties of a Bloch state in momentum space are usually described by the Berry curvature and quantum metric. In realistic gapped materials where interactions and disorder render the Bloch state not a viable starting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-24 Wei Chen , Gero von Gersdorff

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

Quantized transport not only exist in gapped topological states but also in metallic states. Recently, Kane proposed a quantized nonlinear conductance in ballistic metals whose value is determined by the Euler characteristic of the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Fan Yang , Xingyu Li

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

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

Berry curvature is an imaginary component of the quantum geometric tensor (QGT) and is well studied in many branches of modern physics; however, the quantum metric as a real component of the QGT is less explored. Here, by using tunable…

Exploring the topological characteristics of electronic bands is essential in condensed matter physics. Moir\'e materials featuring flat bands provide a versatile platform for engineering band topology and correlation effects. In moir\'e…

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