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Berry curvature is analogous to magnetic field but in momentum space and is commonly present in materials with non-trivial quantum geometry. It endows Bloch electrons with transverse anomalous velocities to produce Hall-like currents even…

The quantum corrections to the conductivity and the thermopower in monolayer graphene are studied. We use the recursive Green's function method to calculate numerically the conductivity and the thermopower of graphene. We then analyze these…

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Optoelectronic and nonlinear transport experiments probe the quantum geometric tensor of Bloch states, whose real and imaginary components -- the quantum metric and the Berry curvature -- are typically constrained by symmetry. Here, we show…

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We study the magnetic Bloch oscillations performed by a quantum particle moving in a two-dimensional lattice in the presence of a strong (synthetic) magnetic field and a uniform force. An elementary derivation of the Berry curvature effect…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-25 Marco Cominotti , Iacopo Carusotto

Berry curvature fundamentally dictates the topological ground state, anomalous transport and optical properties of quantum materials. However, directly mapping its momentum-space distribution in real materials remains an outstanding…

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We present realistic simulations of quantum confinement effects in ballistic graphene quantum dots with linear dimensions of 10 to 40 nm. We determine wavefunctions and energy level statistics in the presence of disorder resulting from edge…

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The geometrodynamics of the spherical gravity with a selfgravitating thin dust shell as a source is constructed. The shell Hamiltonian constraint is derived and the corresponding Schroedinger equation is obtained. This equation appeared to…

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Random vacancies in a graphene monolayer induce defect states that are known to form a narrow impurity band centered around zero energy at half-filling. We use a space-resolved formulation of the quantum metric and establish a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Quentin Marsal , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Understanding the geometric information contained in quantum states is valuable in various branches of physics, particularly in solid-state physics when Bloch states play a crucial role. While the Fubini-Study metric and Berry curvature…

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Many basis sets for electronic structure calculations evolve with varying external parameters, such as moving atoms in dynamic simulations, giving rise to extra derivative terms in the dynamical equations. Here we revisit these derivatives…

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Recently a short scale modified black hole metric, known as holographic metric, has been proposed in order to capture the self-complete character of gravity. In this paper we show that such a metric can reproduce some geometric features…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-23 Antonia M. Frassino , Sven Köppel , Piero Nicolini

Two-dimensional materials are a fertile ground for exploring quantum geometric phenomena, with Berry curvature and its first moment, the Berry curvature dipole, playing a central role in their electronic response. These geometric properties…

Here, we reveal our recent progress on a geometrical approach of quantum physics and topological crystals linking with Dirac magnetic monopoles and gauge fields through classical electrodynamics. The Bloch sphere of a quantum spin-1/2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Karyn Le Hur

One of the necessary steps in constructing high precision option of KKMC was to install the double bremsstrahlung matrix element for the process e+ e- to nu_e bar nu_e into the scheme of Coherent Exclusive Exponentiation. The process is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Z. Was

Geometric Quantum Mechanics is a novel and prospecting approach motivated by the belief that our world is ultimately geometrical. At the heart of that is a quantity called Quantum Geometric Tensor (or Fubini-Study metric), which is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 Ran Cheng

Implementing high-fidelity quantum control and reducing the effect of the coupling between a quantum system and its environment is a major challenge in developing quantum information technologies. Here, we show that there exists a…

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I review several different calculations, coming from string theory, nonperturbative quantum gravity and analyses of black holes that lead to predictions of phenomena that would uniquely be signatures of quantum gravitational effects. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Lee Smolin

Quantum geometry has emerged as a central and ubiquitous concept in quantum sciences, with direct consequences on quantum metrology and many-body quantum physics. In this context, two fundamental geometric quantities are known to play…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Bruno Mera , Anwei Zhang , Nathan Goldman

As the thinnest atomic membrane, graphene presents an opportunity to combine geometry, elasticity and electronics at the limits of their validity. The availability of reliable atomistic potentials for graphene allows unprecedented precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-27 Vitor M. Pereira , A. H. Castro Neto , H. Y. Liang , L. Mahadevan

We show that characteristics of the electron's form factor in two-dimensional materials are observable in quasiparticle interference (QPI) spectrum. We study QPI in twisted bilayer graphene using real-space tight-binding calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 D. -H. -Minh Nguyen , Francisco Guinea , Dario Bercioux