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The valley Hall effect arises from valley contrasting Berry curvature and requires inversion symmetry breaking. Here, we propose a nonlinear mechanism to generate a valley Hall current in systems with both inversion and time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Kamal Das , Koushik Ghorai , Dimitrie Culcer , Amit Agarwal

Valleytronics harnesses the valley degree of freedom -- energy-degenerate extrema in the electronic band structure -- for information storage and processing. Valley Hall effect (VHE) is a cornerstone of valleytronics, enabling electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jin Cao , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , Qian Niu , Shengyuan A. Yang

The nonlinear acoustic valley Hall effect (AVHE), a recently discovered novel acoustically driven phenomena, has sparked extensive interests in valleytronics. So far, only the intrinsic contributions from band structure (Berry curvature or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Jia-Liang Wan , Ying-Li Wu , Ke-Qiu Chen , Xiao-Qin Yu

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…

Valley Hall effect is fundamental to valleytronics and provides a promising avenue for advancing information technology. While conventional valley Hall effect requires the inversion symmetry breaking, the recently proposed nonlinear valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Ruijing Fang , Jie Zhang , Zhichao Zhou , Xiao Li

We develop a theory for the nonlocal measurement of nonlinear valley Hall effect. Different from the linear case where the direct and the inverse processes are reciprocal, we unveil that the nonlinear inverse valley Hall effect needed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Jin Cao , Hui Wang , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

The electric Hall effect (EHE) is a newly identified Hall effect characterized by a perpendicular electric field inducing a transverse charge current in two-dimensional (2D) systems. Here, we propose a spin and valley version of EHE. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 W. Zeng

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 electronic transport characteristics of two-dimensional (2D) systems have widespread application prospects in the fabrication of multifunctional nanodevices. However, the current research for basic transport phenomena, such as anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jianke Tian , Jia Li , Hengbo Liu , Yan Li , Ze Liu , Linyang Li , Jun Li , Guodong Liu , Junjie Shi

Achieving external control over the anomalous valley Hall (AVH) effect is essential for advancing valleytronic applications. However, many of the existing approaches suffer from limitations such as irreversibility or volatility. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-20 Ankita Phutela , Saswata Bhattacharya

Berry curvature is analogous to magnetic field but in momentum space and is commonly present in materials with non-trivial quantum geometry. It endows Bloch electrons with transverse anomalous velocities to produce Hall-like currents even…

Graphene subject to high levels of shear strain leads to strong pseudo-magnetic fields resulting in the emergence of Landau levels. Here we show that, with modest levels of strain, graphene can also sustain a classical valley hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Xian-Peng Zhang , Chunli Huang , Miguel A. Cazalilla

We report on the emergence of bulk, valley-polarized currents in graphene-based devices, driven by spatially varying regions of broken sublattice symmetry, and revealed by non-local resistance ($R_\mathrm{NL}$) fingerprints. By using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Thomas Aktor , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power

The anomalous valley Hall effect (AVHE) is a pivotal phenomenon that allows for the exploitation of the valley degree of freedom in materials. A general strategy for its realization and manipulation is crucial for valleytronics. Here, by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-25 Yongqian Zhu , Jia-Tao Sun , Jinbo Pan , Jun Deng , Shixuan Du

We develop a theory of Coulomb interaction-mediated contribution to valley Hall effect (VHE) in two-dimensional non-centrosymmetric gapped Dirac materials. We assume that the bare valley Hall current occurs in the system due to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 D. S. Eliseev , A. V. Parafilo , V. M. Kovalev , O. V. Kibis , I. G. Savenko

The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE), an emergent phenomenon in noncentrosymmetric systems, enables the generation of a transverse voltage without an external magnetic field through a second-order electrical response. However, achieving a…

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

We propose a geometric phase-resolved tunneling valley Hall effect based on the coherent transmission through two combined electric barriers in $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ lattices. It is shown that the backreflected electrons at the barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 W. Zeng

Valleytronics is a research field utilizing a valley degree of freedom of electrons for information processing and storage. A strong valley polarization is critical for realistic valleytronic applications. Here, we predict a tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Shu-Hui Zhang , Ding-Fu Shao , Zi-An Wang , Jin Yang , Wen Yang , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

The second-order nonlinear Hall effect illuminates a frequency-doubling transverse current emerging in quantum materials with broken inversion symmetry even when time-reversal symmetry is preserved. This nonlinear response originates from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Jinrui Zhong , Junxi Duan , Shihao Zhang , Huimin Peng , Qi Feng , Yuqin Hu , Qinsheng Wang , Jinhai Mao , Jianpeng Liu , Yugui Yao
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