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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…

Flat bands in moir\'e superlattices provide a fertile ground for correlated and topological phases, governed by their quantum geometric properties. While the valley-based paradigm captures key features in select materials, it breaks down in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Arun Bansil

Berry curvature physics and quantum geometric effects have been instrumental in advancing topological condensed matter physics in recent decades. Although Landau level-based flat bands and conventional 3D solids have been pivotal in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Pratap Chandra Adak , Subhajit Sinha , Amit Agarwal , Mandar M. Deshmukh

Moir\'e materials have become one of the most active fields in material science in recent years due to their high tunability, and their unique properties emerge from the Moir\'e-scale structure modulation. Here, we propose twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Ikuma Tateishi , Motoaki Hirayama

Quantum geometry - the geometry of electron Bloch wavefunctions - is central to modern condensed matter physics. Due to the quantum nature, quantum geometry has two parts, the real part quantum metric and the imaginary part Berry curvature.…

We decompose the intrinsic second-order nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) of a generic multiband system into its quantum-geometric contributions within a fully quantum-mechanical, projector-based formalism. By expanding the nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yannis Ulrich , Johannes Mitscherling , Laura Classen , Andreas P. Schnyder

We report a twisted triple bilayer graphene platform consisting of three units of Bernal bilayer graphene consecutively twisted at 1.49{\deg} and 1.68{\deg}. We demonstrate the atomic reconstruction between the two competing moir\'e…

Quantum geometry quantifies how the single-particle Bloch wavefunction changes in phase and amplitude across the Brillouin Zone. In multi-orbital systems where bands have strongly mixed orbital composition, quantum geometry plays a vital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-27 Jixun K. Ding , Martin Claassen

Recently, the topological flat bands and spin Hall effect have been experimentally observed in the AB-stacked MoTe$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterostructures. In this work, we systematically study the Berry curvature effects in moir\'{e} transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Jin-Xin Hu , Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

Studies of moire systems have elucidated the exquisite effect of quantum geometry on the electronic bands and their properties, leading to the discovery of new correlated phases. However, most experimental studies have been confined to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Zhurun Ji , Yuzhou Zhao , Yicong Chen , Ziyan Zhu , Yuhui Wang , Wenjing Liu , Gaurav Modi , Eugene J. Mele , Song Jin , Ritesh Agarwal

The quantum geometric properties of topological materials underpin many exotic physical phenomena and applications. Quantum nonlinearity has emerged as a powerful probe for revealing these properties. The Berry curvature dipole in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Xing-Yu Liu , An-Qi Wang , Dong Li , Tong-Yang Zhao , Xin Liao , Zhi-Min Liao

Several moir\'e systems created by various twisted bilayers have manifested magnetism under flatband conditions leading to enhanced interaction effects. We theoretically study stability of moir\'e flatband ferromagnetism against collective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-15 Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

The long-awaited fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect recently has been observed in the twisted $\mathrm{MoTe_2}$ homobilayers, causing a great sensation. Here, we theoretically investigate the moir\'e band structures of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Miao Liang , Shi-Ping Ding , Ming Wu , Chen Zhao , Jin-Hua Gao

The recently discovered nonlinear Hall effect (NHE) in a few non-interacting systems provides a novel mechanism to generate second harmonic electrical Hall signals under time-reversal-symmetric conditions. Here, we introduce a new approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Jinxin Hu , Xiangbin Cai , En Li , Liheng An , Xuemeng Feng , Ziqing Ye , Nian Lin , Kam Tuen Law , Ning Wang

Since the inception of moir\'e quantum matter, a foundational tenet of the field has been that the quantum geometry of emergent flat bands is faithfully inherited from the low-energy valleys of the constituent monolayers. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yi-Chun Hung , Xiaoting Zhou , Arun Bansil

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

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

The spin orientation of electronic wavefunctions in crystals is an internal degree of freedom, typically insensitive to electrical knobs. We argue from a general symmetry analysis and a $\vec k \cdot \vec p$ perspective, that monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Li-kun Shi , Justin C. W. Song

Quantum materials are characterized by electromagnetic responses intrinsically linked to the geometry and topology of electronic wavefunctions, encoded in the quantum metric and Berry curvature. Whereas Berry curvature-mediated transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Giacomo Sala , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Klevis Domi , Stefano Gariglio , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix , Andrea D. Caviglia

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…

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