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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…

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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

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

The Berry curvature dipole is well-known to cause Hall conductivity. This study expands on previous results to demonstrate how two- and three-dimensional materials react under a tilted magnetic field in the linear and nonlinear regimes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Narjes Kheirabadi , YuanDong Wang

This work investigates the quantum transport in a narrow constriction acted upon by a finite-range transversely polarized time-dependent electric field. A generalized scattering-matrix method is developed that has incorporated a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. S. Tang , C. S. Chu

Modular Berry transport is a useful way to understand how geometric bulk information is encoded in the boundary CFT: The modular curvature is directly related to the bulk Riemann curvature. We extend this approach by studying modular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-11 Lars Aalsma , Cynthia Keeler , Claire Zukowski

We provide a short proof of the quantisation of the Hall conductance for gapped interacting quantum lattice systems on the two-dimensional torus. This is not new and should be seen as an adaptation of the proof of [1], simplified by making…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Sven Bachmann , Alex Bols , Wojciech De Roeck , Martin Fraas

Curvature is a key notion in General Relativity, characterizing the local physical properties of spacetime. By contrast, the concept of curvature has received scant attention in nonperturbative quantum gravity. One may even wonder whether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-27 R. Loll

Triple-component fermions are pseudospin-1 quasiparticles hosted by certain three-band semimetals in the vicinity of their band-touching nodes [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 100}, 235201 (2019)]. The excitations comprise of a flat band and two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Ojasvi Pal , Bashab Dey , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

We propose a mechanism for the inverse Faraday and the inverse Cotton--Mouton effects arising from quantum geometry, characterized by the quantum metric quadrupole and the weighted quantum metric. Within a semiclassical framework based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Hiroki Yoshida , Takehito Yokoyama

Altermagnets are rapidly emerging as a highly promising platform for spintronics, yet dynamically controlling their spin responses remains a fundamental challenge. In this work, we demonstrate that introducing periodic optical driving and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Kai Chen , Jie Zhu

The quantum geometric tensor, which encodes the full geometric information of quantum states in projective Hilbert space, plays a crucial role in condensed matter physics. In this work, we examine the effect of the non-Abelian quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-02 Kai Chen , Bishnu Karki , Pavan Hosur

Quantum walks are accepted as a generic model for quantum transport. The character of the transport crucially depends on the properties of the walk like its geometry and the driving coin. We demonstrate that increasing transport distance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Jan Mareš , Jaroslav Novotný , Martin Štefaňák , Igor Jex

We present a systematic microscopic derivation of the semiclassical Boltzmann equation for band structures with the finite Berry curvature based on Keldysh technique of nonequilibrium systems. In the analysis, an ac electrical driving field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

We present a comprehensive study of magnetoconductivity for general three-dimensional non-magnetic metals within the Berry-curvature-corrected semiclassical and Boltzmann framework. We find a new contribution, which is intrinsic in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Yang Gao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Qian Niu

We investigate the conductance of a quantum wire with two embedded quantum dots using a T-matrix approach based on the Lippmann-Schwinger formalism. The quantum dots are represented by a quantum well with Gaussian shape and the wire is…

In this work we have shown precisely that the curvature of a 2-sphere introduces quantum features in the system through the introduction of the noncommutative (NC) parameter that appeared naturally via equations of motion. To obtain this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-24 B. F. Rizzuti , E. M. C. Abreu , A. C. R. Mendes , M. A. Freitas , V. Nikoofard

A sharp definition of what "adiabatic" means is given; it is then shown that the time-dependent expectation value of a quantum-mechanical observable in the adiabatic limit can be expressed -- in many cases -- by means of the appropriate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Raffaele Resta

Nodal planes, two-dimensional symmetry-enforced band crossings, can carry a topological charge, similar to Weyl points. While the transport properties of Weyl points are well understood, those of nodal planes remain largely unexplored.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Raymond Wiedmann , Kirill Alpin , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Andreas P. Schnyder

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…