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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 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

In this paper, we introduce Berry curvature, topological Chern number and topological chiral edge mode, that emerge from a hybridization between magnon and electromagnetic wave in a ferromagnet insulator. By focusing on the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Akihiro Okamoto , Ryuichi Shindou , Shuichi Murakami

Geometric phases in quantum mechanics play an extraordinary role in broadening our understanding of fundamental significance of geometry in nature. One of the best known examples is the Berry phase (M.V. Berry (1984), Proc. Royal. Soc.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-11 V. Gritsev , A. Polkovnikov

We study the geometric curvature and phase of the Rabi model. Under the rotating-wave approximation (RWA), we apply the gauge independent Berry curvature over a surface integral to calculate the Berry phase of the eigenstates for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Lijun Mao , Sainan Huai , Liping Guo , Yunbo Zhang

We show that topological transitions in electronic spin transport are feasible by a controlled manipulation of spin-guiding fields. The transitions are determined by the topology of the fields texture through an effective Berry phase…

The Berry connection and curvature are key components of electronic structure calculations for atoms and molecules in magnetic fields. They ensure the correct translational behavior of the effective nuclear Hamiltonian and the correct…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Laurens D. M. Peters , Tanner Culpitt , Erik I. Tellgren , Trygve Helgaker

Recently, the magnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ emerged as a competitive platform to realize quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) states. We report a Berry-curvature splitting mechanism to realize the QAH effect in the disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Chui-Zhen Chen , Junjie Qi , Dong-Hui Xu , X. C. Xie

We consider area-preserving deformations of the plane, acting on electronic wavefunctions through "quantomorphisms" that change both the underlying metric and the confining potential. We show that adiabatic sequences of such transformations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Blagoje Oblak , Benoit Estienne

Geometrical phases, such as the Berry phase, have proven to be powerful concepts to understand numerous physical phenomena, from the precession of the Foucault pendulum to the quantum Hall effect and the existence of topological insulators.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-12 Nicolas Perez , Pierre Delplace , Antoine Venaille

Topological properties lie at the heart of many fascinating phenomena in solid state systems such as quantum Hall systems or Chern insulators. The topology can be captured by the distribution of Berry curvature, which describes the geometry…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-31 N. Fläschner , B. S. Rem , M. Tarnowski , D. Vogel , D. -S. Lühmann , K. Sengstock , C. Weitenberg

We investigate the quantum geometric tensor, which is comprised of the Berry curvature and quantum metric, in a generalized Dirac two-band system with non-integer dispersion $E(\mathbf{k})\sim k^{\alpha}$. Our analysis reveals that this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-03 Jamme Omar A. Biscocho , Kristian Hauser A. Villegas

This work brings forward an alternative experimental approach to infer the topological character of phase transitions in insulators. This method relies on subjecting the target system to a set of external fields, each of which consists of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Panagiotis Kotetes

We investigate the nature of the topological phase transition of the antiferromagnetic Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice in the presence of a magnetic field along the [111] direction. The field opens a topological gap in the Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-30 S. Thiagarajan , C. Watson , T. Yzeiri , H. Hu , B. Uchoa , F. Krüger

Triply degenerate points (TDPs), which correspond to new types of topological semimetals, can support novel quasiparticles possessing effective integer spins while preserving Fermi statistics. Here by mapping the momentum space to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Mengxiang Zhang , Xinxing Yuan , Xi-Wang Luo , Chang Liu , Yue Li , Mingdong Zhu , Xi Qin , Yiheng Lin , Jiangfeng Du

We analyze a measurement scheme that allows determination of the Berry curvature and the topological Chern number of a Hamiltonian with parameters exploring a two-dimensional closed manifold. Our method uses continuous monitoring of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Peng Xu , Alexander Holm Kiilerich , Ralf Blattmann , Yang Yu , Shi-Liang Zhu , Klaus Mølmer

The eigenvalues of a parameter-dependent Hamiltonian matrix form a band structure in parameter space. In such $N$-band systems, the quantum geometric tensor (QGT), consisting of the Berry curvature and quantum metric tensors, is usually…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-18 Ansgar Graf , Frédéric Piéchon

Parametrically driven nonlinear resonators represent a building block for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computation and are useful for critical quantum sensing. From a fundamental viewpoint, the most intriguing feature of such a system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Hao-Long Zhang , Jia-Hao Lv , Ken Chen , Xue-Jia Yu , Fan Wu , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

With the help of the Berry curvature and the first Chern number $($$\textit{C}_1$$)$, we both analytically and numerically investigate and thus simulate artificial magnetic monopoles formed in parameter space of the Hamiltonian of a driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ze-Lin Zhang , Ming-Feng Chen , Huai-Zhi Wu , Zhen-Biao Yang

We present an adaptive variational quantum algorithm to estimate the Berry phase accumulated by a nondegenerate ground state under cyclic, adiabatic evolution of a time-dependent Hamiltonian. Our method leverages cyclic adiabatic evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Martin Mootz , Yong-Xin Yao