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The topological properties of a material's electronic structure are encoded in its Berry curvature, a quantity which is intimately related to the transverse electrical conductivity. In transition metal dichalcogenides with broken inversion…

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As a fundamental concept in condensed matter physics, quantum geometry within the Riemannian metric elucidates various exotic phenomena, including the Hall effects driven by Berry curvature and quantum metric. In this work, we propose novel…

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Recent experimental evidence for the quantum spin Hall (QSH) state in monolayer WTe$_2$ has bridged two of the most active fields of condensed matter physics, 2D materials and topological physics. This 2D topological crystal also displays…

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

We propose a pair of the complex Berry curvatures associated with the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and its Hermitian adjoint to reveal new physics in non-Hermitian systems. We give the complex Berry curvature and Berry phase for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Annan Fan , Guang-Yao Huang , Shi-Dong Liang

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…

Quantum dots are model systems for quantum thermoelectric behavior because of the ability to control and measure the effects of electron-energy filtering and quantum confinement on thermoelectric properties. Interestingly, nonlinear…

We present a general unified approach for the study of quantum thermal machines, including both heat engines and refrigerators, operating under periodic adiabatic driving and in contact with thermal reservoirs kept at different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Bibek Bhandari , Pablo Terrén Alonso , Fabio Taddei , Felix von Oppen , Rosario Fazio , Liliana Arrachea

We reveal the gate-tunable Berry curvature dipole polarizability in Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 nanoplates through measurements of the third-order nonlinear Hall effect. Under an applied electric field, the Berry curvature exhibits an asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Tong-Yang Zhao , An-Qi Wang , Xing-Guo Ye , Xing-Yu Liu , Xin Liao , Zhi-Min Liao

The complete quantum metric of a parametrized quantum system has a real part (usually known as the Provost-Vallee metric) and a symplectic imaginary part (known as the Berry curvature). In this paper, we first investigate the relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Balázs Hetényi , Péter Lévay

The Berry phase is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics with profound implications for understanding topological properties of quantum systems. This tutorial provides a comprehensive introduction to the Berry phase, beginning with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Nico Sprinkart , Elke Scheer , Angelo Di Bernardo

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

The Berry curvature and its descendant, the Berry phase, play an important role in quantum mechanics. They can be used to understand the Aharonov-Bohm effect, define topological Chern numbers, and generally to investigate the geometric…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 Michael Kolodrubetz

Geometrical properties of energy bands underlie fascinating phenomena in a wide-range of systems, including solid-state materials, ultracold gases and photonics. Most famously, local geometrical characteristics like the Berry curvature can…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-20 Martin Wimmer , Hannah M. Price , Iacopo Carusotto , Ulf Peschel

The quantum geometry has significant consequences in determining transport and optical properties in quantum materials. Here, we use a semiclassical formalism coupled with perturbative corrections unifying the nonlinear anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Daniel Kaplan , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

In a system with inversion symmetry broken, a second-order nonlinear Hall effect can survive even in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. In this work, we show that a giant nonlinear Hall effect can exist in twisted bilayer WTe2 system.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-30 Zhihai He , Hongming Weng

In recent years, the nonlinear anomalous thermal Hall effect has attracted substantial attention. In this paper, we carry out a theoretical exploration of the intrinsic anomalous thermal Hall and Nernst effect that is induced by the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Ying-Fei Zhang , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

In recent years, it has been shown that Berry curvature monopoles and dipoles play essential roles in the anomalous Hall effect and the nonlinear Hall effect respectively. In this work, we demonstrate that Berry curvature multipoles (the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Cheng-Ping Zhang , Xue-Jian Gao , Ying-Ming Xie , Hoi Chun Po , K. T. Law

The orbital magnetic susceptibility of an electron gas in a periodic potential depends not only on the zero field energy spectrum but also on the geometric structure of cell-periodic Bloch states which encodes interband effects. In addition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Frédéric Piéchon , Arnaud Raoux , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Gilles Montambaux

The recent discovery of magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2 opens up new avenues for research into the interactions between topological orders, magnetism, and electronic correlations. Motivated by the observations of large anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Abhirup Roy Karmakar , S. Nandy , A. Taraphder , G. P. Das