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The momentum space of topological insulators and topological superconductors is equipped with a quantum metric defined from the overlap of neighboring valence band states or quasihole states. We investigate the quantum geometrical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-25 Wei Chen

We elaborate that $s$-wave and $d$-wave superconductors described by mean field theories possess a nontrivial quantum geometry. From the overlap of two quasihole states at slightly different momenta, one can define a quantum metric that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-13 David Porlles , Wei Chen

The momentum space of conventional superconductors is recently recognized to possess a quantum metric defined from the overlap of filled quasihole states at neighboring momenta. For multiband superconductors with arbitrary intraband and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-18 David Porlles , Wei Chen

The manifold of pure quantum states is a complex projective space endowed with the unitary-invariant geometry of Fubini and Study. According to the principles of geometric quantum mechanics, the detailed physical characteristics of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

The past few years have seen a revived interest in quantum geometrical characterizations of band structures due to the rapid development of topological insulators and semi-metals. Although the metric tensor has been connected to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Adrien Bouhon , Abigail Timmel , Robert-Jan Slager

Quantum geometry, characterized by the quantum geometric tensor, is pivotal in diverse physical phenomena in quantum materials. In condensed matter systems, quantum geometry refers to the geoemtric properties of Bloch states in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jiabin Yu , B. Andrei Bernevig , Raquel Queiroz , Enrico Rossi , Päivi Törmä , Bohm-Jung Yang

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

Quantum geometry of Bloch wavefunctions has gained considerable interest with the discovery of moir\'e materials that exhibit bands flattened by quantum interference. The quantum metric, the symmetric part of the quantum geometric tensor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Nishchhal Verma , Raquel Queiroz

The geometric properties of quantum states are crucial for understanding many physical phenomena in quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, and optics. The central object describing these properties is the quantum geometric tensor,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Marius A. Oancea , Thomas B. Mieling , Giandomenico Palumbo

Geometry and topology are fundamental concepts, which underlie a wide range of fascinating physical phenomena such as topological states of matter and topological defects. In quantum mechanics, the geometry of quantum states is fully…

The so-called quantum metric tensor is a band-structure invariant whose measure corresponds to the quantum distance between nearby states in the Hilbert space, characterizing the geometry of the underlying quantum states. In the context of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-25 M. Iskin

By coupling Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory with isolated bands to an external gravitomagnetic vector potential via a gravitomagnetic Peierls substitution, we identify a quantum-geometric contribution to the electronic contribution…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-13 Maximilian Buthenhoff , Yusuke Nishida

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…

We propose a generic protocol to experimentally measure the quantum metric tensor, a fundamental geometric property of quantum states. Our method is based on the observation that the excitation rate of a quantum state directly relates to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Tomoki Ozawa , Nathan Goldman

The quantum geometry in the momentum space of semiconductors and insulators, described by the quantum metric of the valence band Bloch state, has been an intriguing issue owing to its connection to various material properties. Because the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-30 Matheus S. M. de Sousa , Antonio L. Cruz , Wei Chen

The motion of a quantum particle constrained to a two-dimensional non-compact Riemannian manifold with non-trivial metric can be described by a flat-space Schroedinger-type equation at the cost of introducing local mass and metric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Benjamin Schwager , Theresa Appel , Jamal Berakdar

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) characterizes the complete geometric properties of quantum states, with the symmetric part being the quantum metric, and the antisymmetric part being the Berry curvature. We propose a generic Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Hai-Tao Ding , Chang-Xiao Zhang , Jing-Xin Liu , Jian-Te Wang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We study the geometric contribution to the superfluidity in quasicrystals in which the conventional momentum-space quantum geometric tensor cannot be defined due to the lack of translational invariance. Based on the correspondence between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-22 Junsong Sun , Huaiming Guo , Bohm-Jung Yang

This paper presents a comprehensive perspective of the metric of quantum states with a focus on the background independent metric structures. We also explore the possibilities of geometrical formulations of quantum mechanics beyond the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 Aalok

The spread of valence band Wannier functions in semiconductors and insulators is a characteristic property that gives a rough estimation of how insulating is the material. We elaborate that the gauge-invariant part of the spread can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-29 Luis F. Cárdenas-Castillo , Shuai Zhang , Denis Kochan , Fernando L. Freire , Wei Chen
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