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Quantum geometry is a differential geometry based on quantum mechanics. It is related to various transport and optical properties in condensed matter physics. The Zeeman quantum geometry is a generalization of quantum geometry including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Motohiko Ezawa

The imaginary part of the quantum geometric tensor is the Berry curvature, while the real part is the quantum metric. Dirac fermions derived from a tight-binding model naturally contains a mass term $m(k)$ with parabolic dispersion, $m(k)=$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Motohiko Ezawa

Probing ground-state quantum geometry and topology through optical response is not only of fundamental interest, but it can also offer several practical advantages. Here, using first-principles calculations on antiferromagnetic topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-19 Barun Ghosh , Yugo Onishi , Su-Yang Xu , Hsin Lin , Liang Fu , Arun Bansil

Exploring the quantum geometric properties of solids beyond their topological aspects has become a key focus in current solid-state physics research. We derive the geometric formula for optical conductivity from the quantum metric tensor,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-25 Chang-geun Oh , Sun-Woo Kim , Kun Woo Kim , Bartomeu Monserrat , Jun-Won Rhim

Quantum geometric tensor (QGT), including a symmetric real part defined as quantum metric and an antisymmetric part defined as Berry curvature, is essential for understanding many phenomena. We studied the photogalvanic effect of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Zhi Li , Takami Tohyama , Toshiaki Iitaka , Haibin Su , Haibo Zeng

The chiral optical absorption by a single vortex in a p_x \pm i p_y-wave superconductor is studied theoretically. The p_x \pm i p_y-wave state was recently suggested as the symmetry of the order parameter of Sr_2 Ru O_4 superconductor. Due…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Masashige Matsumoto , Manfred Sigrist

The exploration of the Riemannian structure of the Hilbert space has led to the concept of quantum geometry, comprising geometric quantities exemplified by Berry curvature and quantum metric. While this framework has profoundly advanced the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Xiao-Bin Qiang , Tianyu Liu , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Nodal planes, two-dimensional symmetry-enforced band crossings, can carry a topological charge, similar to Weyl points. While the transport properties of Weyl points are well understood, those of nodal planes remain largely unexplored.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Raymond Wiedmann , Kirill Alpin , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Andreas P. Schnyder

The paper explores the basic geometrical properties of the observables characterizing two-qubit systems by employing a novel projective ring geometric approach. After introducing the basic facts about quantum complementarity and maximal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michel R. P. Planat , Metod Saniga , Maurice R. Kibler

Utilizing the line-group symmetry of single-wall nanotubes, we have assigned their electron-energy bands by the symmetry-based quantum numbers. The selection rules for optical absorption are presented in terms of these quantum numbers.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Bozovic , N. Bozovic , M. Damnjanovic

The photogalvanic effect (PGE), a fundamental nonlinear optical phenomenon in non-centrosymmetric materials, generates direct photocurrent under polarized light. Using quantum kinetic theory within the relaxation-time approximation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bristi Ghosh , Malay Bandyopadhyay , Snehasish Nandy

We investigate theoretically polygonal quantum rings and focus mostly on the triangular geometry where the corner effects are maximal. Such rings can be seen as short core-shell nanowires, a generation of semiconductor heterostructures with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Anna Sitek , Llorenç Serra , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

We introduce a quantum geometric tensor in a curved space with a parameter-dependent metric, which contains the quantum metric tensor as the symmetric part and the Berry curvature corresponding to the antisymmetric part. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Joan A. Austrich-Olivares , J. David Vergara

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) unifies the Berry curvature (its imaginary part) and the quantum metric (its real part), yet Raman studies of chiral phonons have so far accessed only the former. We perform circularly polarized Raman…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-14 Chao-Fan Wang , Han Ge , Jun-Yang Chen , Liusuo Wu , Xiaobin Chen , Jia-Wei Mei , Mingyuan Huang

The basic laws of geometrical optics can be deduced from energy-momentum conservation for electromagnetic waves, without other wave concepts. However, the concept of quanta is required; it arises naturally, hence such a hypothesis could…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 John P. Hernandez

Quantum geometry is crucial for understanding intricate condensed matter systems, governing transport phenomena and optical responses. However, traditional studies predominantly consider a static crystal lattice, focusing exclusively on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Jiaming Hu , Wenbin Li , Zhichao Guo , Hua Wang , Kai Chang

Quantum geometry and topology are fundamental concepts of modern condensed matter physics, underpinning phenomena ranging from the quantum Hall effect to protected surface states. The Berry curvature, a central element of this framework, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Giancarlo Soavi , Jan Wilhelm

Quantum geometry governs a wide range of transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials. Recent works have explored analogue electromagnetism and gravity in terms of the quantum geometric tensor, whose real and imaginary parts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Maranzana , Koki Shinada , Ying-Ming Xie , Sergey Artyukhin , Naoto Nagaosa

Quantum geometry, which describes the geometry of Bloch wavefunctions in solids, has become a cornerstone of modern quantum condensed matter physics. The quantum geometrical tensor encodes this geometry through two fundamental components:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-04 Anyuan Gao , Naoto Nagaosa , Ni Ni , Su-Yang Xu

We elaborate that many non-excitonic dielectric and optical properties of semiconductors and insulators caused by interband absorption are originated from quantum geometry, including charge susceptibility, relative dielectric constant,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Wei Chen
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