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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

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

We study the dynamics of electrons in crystalline solids in the presence of inhomogeneous external electric and magnetic fields. We present a manifestly gauge-invariant operator-based approach without relying on a semiclassical wavepacket…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Chen Xu , Andreas Haller , Suraj Hegde , Tobias Meng , Thomas L. Schmidt

Non-Hermitian materials can not only exhibit exotic energy band structures but also an anomalous velocity induced by non-Hermitian anomalous Berry connection as predicted by the semiclassical equations of motion for Bloch electrons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Jiong-Hao Wang , Yu-Liang Tao , Yong Xu

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

This study discusses the quantum behavior of a particle, which is controlled by fluctuations in the physical space-time (ST) variables, rather than provides a novel interpretation of quantum theory. The fluctuations, i.e., inhomogeneities…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Valery Egorushkin

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit spectral and topological phenomena absent in Hermitian physics; however, their geometric characterization is hindered by an intrinsic ambiguity rooted in the eigenspace of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Ievgen I. Arkhipov

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

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

The local geometry of the parameter space of a quantum system is described by the quantum metric tensor and the Berry curvature, which are two fundamental objects that play a crucial role in understanding geometrical aspects of condensed…

Topological physics has broadened its scope from the study of topological insulating phases to include nodal phases containing band structure singularities. The geometry of the corresponding quantum states is described by the quantum metric…

A fundamental symmetry of the non-Hermitian operators describing wave-propagation in time-varying media imbue such systems with non-trivial topology. This topology may be measured directly in a wide range of experimental settings as a…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-12 Calvin Hooper

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

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) fundamentally encodes the geometry and topology of quantum states in both Hermitian and non-Hermitian regimes. While adiabatic perturbation theory links its real part (quantum metric) and imaginary part…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Ze-Hao Huang , Hai-Tao Ding , Li-Jun Lang

The geometrical Berry phase is key to understanding the behaviour of quantum states under cyclic adiabatic evolution. When generalised to non-Hermitian systems with gain and loss, the Berry phase can become complex, and should modify not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Yaashnaa Singhal , Enrico Martello , Shraddha Agrawal , Tomoki Ozawa , Hannah Price , Bryce Gadway

The quantum metric, a geometric measure of state-space distance, has recently attracted growing attention for capturing anomalous state responses to parameter variations. Especially in non-Hermitian systems, the quantum metric has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Teng Liu , Xiaohang Zhang , Jiawei Zhang , Le Luo

The non-Hermitian skin effect is nonreciprocity-induced localization phenomena in which a macroscopic number of eigenstates accumulate anomalously at the boundary, accompanied by the extreme sensitivity to boundary conditions. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Kohei Kawabata

We demonstrate that the non-Hermitian quantum geometric tensor (QGT) governs nonlinear electrical responses in systems with a spectral line gap. The quantum metric, which is the symmetric component of the QGT and takes complex values in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Kai Chen , Jie Zhu

For pure states, the quantum Berry curvature was well studied. However, the quantum curvature for mixed states has received less attention. From the concept of symmetric logarithmic derivative, we introduce a mixed-state quantum curvature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Xiaoguang Wang , Xiao-Ming Lu , Yunbo Zhang , Libin Fu , Shu Chen

Understanding the relationship between quantum geometry and topological invariants is a central problem in the study of topological states. In this work, we establish the relationship between the quantum metric and the Euler curvature in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Soonhyun Kwon , Bohm-Jung Yang