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We investigate the influence of surface states on the nonlinear Hall response of non-centrosymmetric time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetals. To do so, we perform a tomography of the Berry curvature dipole in a slab system using a minimal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Diego García Ovalle , Armando Pezo , Aurélien Manchon

Nonlinear transport phenomena offer an exciting probe into the band geometry and symmetry properties of a system. While most studies on nonlinear transport have looked at second-order nonreciprocal responses in noncentrosymmetric systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Debottam Mandal , Sanjay Sarkar , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

We argue that the static non-linear Hall conductivity can always be represented as a vector in two-dimensions and as a pseudo-tensor in three-dimensions independent of its microscopic origin. In a single band model with a constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Snehasish Nandy , Inti Sodemann

Topological effects arising from the Berry curvature lead to intriguing transport signatures in quantum materials. Two such phenomena are the chiral anomaly and nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE). A unified description of these transport regimes…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Dhruv C. Desai , Lauren A. Tan , Jin-Jian Zhou , Shiyu Peng , Jinsoo Park , Marco Bernardi

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

Nonlinear responses in condensed matters attract recent intensive interest because they provide rich information about the materials and hold the possibility of being applied in diodes or high-frequency optical devices. Nonlinear responses…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Yoshihiro Michishita , Naoto Nagaosa

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

Recent experimental and theoretical studies have revealed the emergence of a linear layer Hall effect (LHE) induced by hidden Berry curvature in \textrm{MnBi}$_{2}$\textrm{Te}$_{4}$ thin films. This phenomenon underscores the layer degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zhuo-Hua Chen , Hou-Jian Duan , Ming-Xun Deng , Rui-Qiang Wang

Noncentrosymmetric metals are anticipated to exhibit a $dc$ photocurrent in the nonlinear optical response caused by the Berry curvature dipole in momentum space. Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are expected to be excellent candidates for observing…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-10 Yang Zhang , Yan Sun , Binghai Yan

The discovery of topological quantum materials represents a striking innovation in modern condensed matter physics with remarkable fundamental and technological implications. Their classification has been recently extended to topological…

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

The topology between Bloch states in reciprocal space has attracted tremendous attention in recent years. The quantum geometry of the band structure is composed of quantum metric as real part and berry curvature as imaginary part. While the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Junjian Mi , Jialin Li , Miaocong Li , Sheng Xu , Shuang Yu , Zheng Li , Xinyi Fan , Huanfeng Zhu , Qian Tao , Linjun Li , Zhuan Xu

Berry curvature dipole plays an important role in various nonlinear quantum phenomena. However, the maximum symmetry allowed for nonzero Berry curvature dipole in the transport plane is a single mirror line, which strongly limits its…

The quantum geometry, comprising Berry curvature and quantum metric, plays a fundamental role in governing electron transport phenomena in solids. Recent studies show that the quantum metric dipole drives scattering-free nonlinear Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Tong-Yang Zhao , An-Qi Wang , Zhen-Tao Zhang , Zheng-Yang Cao , Xing-Yu Liu , Zhi-Min Liao

The thermoelectric transport coefficients are calculated in a generic lattice model of multi-Weyl semimetals with a broken time-reversal symmetry by using the Kubo's linear response theory. The contributions connected with the Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Injection and shift currents are generally regarded as distinct nonlinear optical responses with separate microscopic origins. Here, we uncover a general hidden connection between them through interband Berry-curvature and quantum-metric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Mohammad Yahyavi , Tay-Rong Chang , Md Shafayat Hossain , Arun Bansil , Naoto Nagaosa , Guoqing Chang

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

Nonlinear Hall effect arises in materials without inversion symmetry, and the intrinsic contribution is typically from Berry curvature dipole of non-universal Fermi pockets. Here we propose that nonlinear Hall effect can reach quantization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-12 Nikolai Peshcherenko , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

Electrons moving in a Bloch band are known to acquire an anomalous Hall velocity proportional to the Berry curvature of the band which is responsible for the intrinsic linear Hall effect in materials with broken time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 O. Matsyshyn , I. Sodemann

The appearance of a Hall conductance necessarily requires breaking of time-reversal symmetry, either by an external magnetic field or by the internal magnetization of a material. However, as a second response, Hall dissipationless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 Carmine Ortix