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The wavefuntion of conduction electrons moving in the background of a non-coplanar spin structure can gain a quantal phase - Berry phase - as if the electrons were moving in a strong fictitious magnetic field. Such an emergent magnetic…

Recent experiments on rhombohedral pentalayer graphene flakes with a substrate induced moir\'e potential have identified both Chern insulators and fractional Quantum Hall states in the absence of an applied magnetic field. Surprisingly,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-15 Junkai Dong , Taige Wang , Tianle Wang , Tomohiro Soejima , Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath , Daniel E. Parker

Bilayer graphene and its thicker cousins with Rhombohedral stacking have attracted considerable attention because of their susceptibility to a variety of broken chiral symmetry states. Due to large density-of-states and quantized Berry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-25 Fan Zhang

When the Coulomb interaction dominates over kinetic energy, electrons can crystallize into a Wigner crystal (WC). This paradigmatic correlated electronic phase has been realized in two-dimensional electron gases with parabolic band…

We systematically investigate the emergence of electron crystal phases in rhombohedral multilayer graphene using comprehensive self-consistent Hartree Fock calculations combined with \textit{ab initio} tight binding model. As the carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Wangqian Miao , Chu Li

The electrical Hall effect is the production of a transverse voltage under an out-of-plane magnetic field. Historically, studies of the Hall effect have led to major breakthroughs including the discoveries of Berry curvature and the…

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

The Wigner crystal on liquid He accompanies with periodic corrugation of the He surface; dimples. The dynamics of the crystal is coupled with the motion and the deformation of the dimples. Nonlinear phenomena found in AC Corbino…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiyuki Shibayama , Masaya Yamazaki , Hanako Isshiki , Keiya Shirahama

Recent advances in 2D materials featuring nonzero Berry curvature have inspired extensions of the Wigner crystallization paradigm. This paper derives a low-energy effective theory for such quantum crystals, including the anomalous Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-16 Junkai Dong , Ophelia Evelyn Sommer , Tomohiro Soejima , Daniel E. Parker , Ashvin Vishwanath

We have shown that the study of topological aspects of the underlying geometry in a ferromagnetic spin system gives rise to an intrinsic Berry phase. This real space Berry phase arises due to the spin rotations of conducting electrons which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Basu , P. Bandyopadhyay

Spontaneous symmetry breaking provides a powerful window into the nature of underlying electronic orders. In strongly correlated systems, multiple symmetry-breaking orders can arise simultaneously. and their interplay generates an intricate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Erin Morissette , Peiyu Qin , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. I. A. Li

Anomalous Hall effect (AHE), occurring in materials with broken time-reversal symmetry, epitomizes the intricate interplay between magnetic order and orbital motions of electrons[1-4]. In two dimensional (2D) systems, AHE is always coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Qingxin Li , Hua Fan , Min Li , Yinghai Xu , Junwei Song , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie , James Hone , Cory Dean , Yue Zhao , Jianpeng Liu , Lei Wang

Weyl semimetals are promising quantum materials that offer unique topological properties. Lately, it has been shown that laser-driven electron dynamics have characteristic signatures in two-dimensional and three-dimensional Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Amar Bharti , M. S. Mrudul , Gopal Dixit

It is well-known that a non-vanishing Hall conductivity requires time-reversal symmetry breaking. However, in this work, we demonstrate that a Hall-like transverse current can occur in second-order response to an external electric field in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Inti Sodemann , Liang Fu

We present a review of experimental and theoretical studies of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE), focusing on recent developments that have provided a more complete framework for understanding this subtle phenomenon and have, in many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Naoto Nagaosa , Jairo Sinova , Shigeki Onoda , A. H. MacDonald , N. P. Ong

It is well known that the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic and strongly paramagnetic metals in addition to electron skew scattering on impurities is determined by internal mechanism linked to the Berry curvature, a quantum-mechanical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-16 V. P. Mineev

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

The prediction and realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect are often intimately connected to honeycomb lattices in which the sublattice degree of freedom plays a central role in the nontrivial topology. Two-dimensional Wigner…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-04 Yongxin Zeng , Daniele Guerci , Valentin Crépel , Andrew J. Millis , Jennifer Cano

2D materials based superlattices have emerged as a promising platform to modulate band structure and its symmetries. In particular, moir\'e periodicity in twisted graphene systems produces flat Chern bands. The recent observation of…

Graphene, a single free-standing sheet of graphite with honeycomb lattice structure, is a semimetal with carriers that have linear dispersion. A consequence of this dispersion is the absence of Wigner crystallization in graphene, since the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. -H. Zhang , Yogesh N. Joglekar