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Topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have been predicted to be excellent candidates for detecting Berry curvature dipole (BCD) and the related non-linear effects in electronics and optics due to the large Berry curvature concentrated around…

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Magnetic topological semimetals often exhibit unusual electronic and thermal transport due to nontrivial bulk band crossings, enabling simultaneous realization of large anomalous Hall and Nernst conductivities ($\sigma_{xy}$ and…

Exploring the topological characteristics of electronic bands is essential in condensed matter physics. Moir\'e materials featuring flat bands provide a versatile platform for engineering band topology and correlation effects. In moir\'e…

Among non-Hermitian systems, pseudo-Hermitian phases represent a special class of physical models characterized by real energy spectra and by the absence of non-Hermitian skin effects. Here, we show that several pseudo-Hermitian phases in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Yan-Qing Zhu , Wen Zheng , Shi-Liang Zhu , Giandomenico Palumbo

In recent years it has become clear that electronic Berry curvature (BC) is a key concept to understand and predict physical properties of crystalline materials. A wealth of interesting Hall-type responses in charge, spin and heat transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Dennis Wawrzik , Jorge I. Facio , Jeroen van den Brink

In the recent years, the thermal Hall transport has risen as an important diagnosis of the physical properties of the elementary excitations in various quantum materials, especially among the Mott insulating systems where the electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Xiao-Tian Zhang , Yong Hao Gao , Gang Chen

In these lecture notes, partly based on a course taught at the Karpacz Winter School in March 2014, we explore the close connections between non-adiabatic response of a system with respect to macroscopic parameters and the geometry of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-12 Michael Kolodrubetz , Dries Sels , Pankaj Mehta , Anatoli Polkovnikov

The geometry of electronic bands in a solid can drastically alter single-particle charge and spin transport. We show here that collective optical excitations arising from Coulomb interactions also exhibit unique signatures of Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-16 Ajit Srivastava , Ataç Imamoğlu

It is well known that a nontrivial Chern number results in quantized Hall conductance. What is less known is that, generically, the Hall response can be dramatically different from its quantized value in materials with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Fang Qin , Rui Chen , Ching Hua Lee

Recent experiments have demonstrated interesting physics in a family of two-dimensional (2D) composition-tunable materials Nb$_{2n+1}$Si$_n$Te$_{4n+2}$. Here, we show that owing to its intrinsic low symmetry, metallic nature, tunable…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-24 Yiwei Zhao , Jin Cao , Zeying Zhang , Si Li , Yan Li , Fei Ma , Shengyuan A. Yang

We present a study of electric, thermal and thermoelectric response in noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn$_{3}$Sn, which hosts a large Anomalous Hall Effect (AHE). Berry curvature generates off-diagonal thermal(Righi-Leduc) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Xiaokang Li , Liangcai Xu , Linchao Ding , Jinhua Wang , Mingsong Shen , Xiufang Lu , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

Berry curvature, as the imaginary component of quantum geometry, plays a crucial role in condensed matter physics. The spatial distribution of Berry curvature can be characterized by its dipole and multipole moments, which can induce the…

In this paper, we extend the quantum geometric tensor for parameter-dependent curved spaces to higher dimensions, and introduce an equivalent definition that generalizes the Zanardi, et al, formulation of the tensor. The parameter-dependent…

The emergence of the fascinating non-linear Hall effect intrinsically depends on the non-zero value of the Berry curvature dipole. In this work, we predict that suitable strain engineering in layered van der Waals material phosphorene can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Arka Bandyopadhyay , Nesta Benno Joseph , Awadhesh Narayan

In this work, we derive a generalized constitutive relation describing the current response to external electromagnetic fields in electrically biased quantum materials. While our semiclassical Boltzmann approach reveals the existence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 D. J. P. de Sousa , C. O. Ascencio , Tony Low

The importance of the quantum metric in flat-band systems has been noticed recently in many contexts such as the superfluid stiffness, the dc electrical conductivity, and ideal Chern insulators. Both the quantum metric of degenerate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Bruno Mera , Johannes Mitscherling

It has been recently established that optoelectronic and non-linear transport experiments can give direct access to the dipole moment of the Berry curvature in non-magnetic and non-centrosymmetric materials. Thus far, non-vanishing Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Raffaele Battilomo , Niccolo' Scopigno , Carmine Ortix

Chiral anomaly or Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) has a significant impact on the electron transport behaviors, leading to remarkable longitudinal or planar electrical and thermoelectric transport phenomena in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

We study the ac Hall response induced by passage of dc transport current in two- and three-dimensional metals with gyrotropic point groups -- the gyrotropic Hall effect -- and consider the phenomenon of current-induced optical activity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 E. J. König , M. Dzero , A. Levchenko , D. A. Pesin

The nonlinear Hall effect has attracted considerable attention and undergone extensive investigation in recent years. However, theoretical studies addressing size-dependent effects remain largely unexplored. In this work, we establish a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Xinyu Liu , Haozhi Liao , Guangyun Qi , Hao Geng , Li Sheng , Dingyu Xing