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For decades, ``geometry" in band theory has largely meant Berry phase and Berry curvature-quantities that reshape semiclassical dynamics and underpin modern topological matter. Yet the full geometric content of a Bloch band is richer and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Bohm-Jung Yang

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

The quantum geometric properties of a Bloch state in momentum space are usually described by the Berry curvature and quantum metric. In realistic gapped materials where interactions and disorder render the Bloch state not a viable starting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-24 Wei Chen , Gero von Gersdorff

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

In Hilbert space, the geometry of the quantum state is identified by the quantum geometric tensor (QGT), whose imaginary part is the Berry curvature and real part is the quantum metric tensor. Here, we propose and experimentally implement a…

The geometric characteristics of Bloch wave functions play a crucial role in electronic transport properties. We show that the thermoelectric performance of materials is governed by the geometric structure of Bloch wave functions within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Chang-geun Oh , Kun Woo Kim , Jun-Won Rhim

Bloch wave functions of electrons have properties called quantum geometry, which has recently attracted much attention as the origin of intriguing physical phenomena. In this paper, we introduce the notion of the quantum-geometric pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-12 Akito Daido , Taisei Kitamura , Youichi Yanase

Quantum geometry is a key quantity that distinguishes electrons in a crystal from those in the vacuum. Its study continues to provide insights into quantum materials, uncovering new design principles for their discovery. However, unlike the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Tyler B. Smith , Lakshmi Pullasseri , Ajit Srivastava

The geometric properties of parameter space are mostly described by Berry curvature and quantum metric, which are the imaginary and real part of quantum geometric tensor, respectively. In this work, we calculate the dressed Berry curvature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Ze Liu , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

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

Understanding the geometric properties of quantum states and their implications in fundamental physical phenomena is at the core of modern physics. The Quantum Geometric Tensor (QGT) is a central physical object in this regard, encoding…

Topological Physics relies on the specific structure of the eigenstates of Hamiltonians. Their geometry is encoded in the quantum geometric tensor containing both the celebrated Berry curvature, crucial for topological matter, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 A. Gianfrate , O. Bleu , L. Dominici , V. Ardizzone , M. De Giorgi , D. Ballarini , K. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , D. D. Solnyshkov , D. Sanvitto , G. Malpuech

Quantum geometry, describing the geometric properties of the Bloch wave function in momentum space, has recently been recognized as a fundamental concept in condensed matter physics. The flat-band system offers the paradigmatic platform…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-03 Taisei Kitamura , Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

Geometry and topology are fundamental to modern condensed matter physics, but their precise connection in quantum systems remains incompletely understood. Here, we develop an analytical scheme for calculating the curvature of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Shin-Ming Huang

The eigenvalues of a parameter-dependent Hamiltonian matrix form a band structure in parameter space. In such $N$-band systems, the quantum geometric tensor (QGT), consisting of the Berry curvature and quantum metric tensors, is usually…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-18 Ansgar Graf , Frédéric Piéchon

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

Berry curvature is an imaginary component of the quantum geometric tensor (QGT) and is well studied in many branches of modern physics; however, the quantum metric as a real component of the QGT is less explored. Here, by using tunable…

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

In this work we will focus on the effects produced by topological disorder on the electronic properties of a graphene plane. The presence of this type of disorder induces curvature in the samples of this material, making quite difficult the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano

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
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