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The calculation of quantum-geometric properties of Bloch electrons -- Berry curvature, quantum metric, orbital magnetic moment and effective mass -- was implemented in a pseudopotential plane-wave code. The starting point was the first…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-29 José Luís Martins , Carlos Loia Reis , Ivo Souza

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…

There has been much work in the recent past in developing the idea of quantum geometry to characterize and understand the structure of many-particle states. For mean-field states, the quantum geometry has been defined and analysed in terms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-03 S. R. Hassan , Ankita Chakrabarti , R. Shankar

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Giacomo Sala , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Klevis Domi , Stefano Gariglio , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix , Andrea D. Caviglia

Thermoelectric transport coefficients are determined for semiconductor quantum wires with weak thickness fluctuations. Such systems exhibit anomalies in conductance near 1/4 and 3/4 of 2e^2/h on the rising edge to the first conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Rejec , A. Ramsak , J. H. Jefferson

Low dimensional structures have demonstrated improved thermoelectric (TE) performance because of a drastic reduction in their thermal conductivity, {\kappa}l. This has been observed for a variety of materials, even for traditionally poor…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-31 Neophytos Neophytou , Hans Kosina

We consider the ballistic transport of quasiparticles with exclusion statistics through a 1D wire within the Landauer-Buttiker approach. We demonstrate that quasiparticle transport coefficients (electrical and heat conductance, as well as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Krive , E. R. Mucciolo

Thermoelectric transport coefficients up to linear order in the applied magnetic field are microscopically studied using Kubo-Luttinger linear response theory and thermal Green's functions. We derive exact formulas for the thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Viktor Könye , Masao Ogata

We have combined the Boltzmann transport equation with an {\it ab initio} approach to compute the thermoelectric coefficients of semiconductors. Electron-phonon, ionized impurity, and electron-plasmon scattering rates have been taken into…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-26 Z. Wang , S. Wang , S. Obukhov , N. Vast , J. Sjakste , V. Tyuterev , N. Mingo

Quantum geometry, characterized by the quantum geometric tensor, is pivotal in diverse physical phenomena in quantum materials. In condensed matter systems, quantum geometry refers to the geoemtric properties of Bloch states in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jiabin Yu , B. Andrei Bernevig , Raquel Queiroz , Enrico Rossi , Päivi Törmä , Bohm-Jung Yang

Quantum geometry may enable the development of quantum phases ranging from superconductivity to correlated topological states. One powerful probe of quantum geometry is the nonlinear Hall response which detects Berry curvature dipole in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Yuan Fang , Shouvik Sur , Yonglong Xie , Qimiao Si

Bloch electrons in multiorbital systems carry quantum geometric information characteristic of their wavevector-dependent interorbital mixing. The geometric nature impacts electromagnetic responses, and this effect carries over to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-11 Weipeng Chen , Wen Huang

When impurity and phonon scattering coexist, the Boltzmann equation has been solved accurately for nonlinear electron transport in a quantum wire. Based on the calculated non-equilibrium distribution of electrons in momentum space, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs

Quantum geometry, including Berry curvature and the quantum metric, of the electronic Bloch bands has been studied via nonlinear responses in topological materials. Naturally, these material systems with intrinsic strong nonlinear responses…

By coupling Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory with isolated bands to an external gravitomagnetic vector potential via a gravitomagnetic Peierls substitution, we identify a quantum-geometric contribution to the electronic contribution…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-13 Maximilian Buthenhoff , Yusuke Nishida

We establish a finite-time quantum tricycle driven by an external field and investigate its thermodynamic performance in the slow-driving regime. By developing a perturbative expansion of heat with respect to operation time, we capture the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Shihao Xia , Jingyi Chen , Jincan Chen , Shanhe Su

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

We explore the thermoelectric transport properties of a coexistence topological semimetal, characterized by the presence of both a pair of Weyl points and a nodal ring in the quantum limit. This system gives rise to complex Landau bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 L. W. Guo , C. M. Wang

We study the thermoelectric effect of two-dimensional metals on a square lattice within semiclassical Boltzmann transport theory with particular focus on electron-electron scattering. We compute the electrical conductivity and the Seebeck…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-17 Jonathan M. Buhmann , Manfred Sigrist

Here, we employ a numerical approach to investigate the transport and conductance characteristics of a quantum point contact. A quantum point contact is a narrow constriction of a width comparable to the electron wavelength defined in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 G. Bilgec Akyüz , A. Siddiki