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We argue that a range of strong metallic electro-optic (EO) effects can be naturally realized from non-Drude dynamics of free carriers in metals. In particular, in clean metals we identify skew-scattering and a "Snap" (third-order…

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Response theories in condensed matter typically describe the response of an electron fluid to external electromagnetic fields, while perturbations on neutral particles are often designed to mimic such fields. Here, we study the response of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-25 Kai Chen , Swadeepan Nanda , Pavan Hosur

Berry curvature does not show itself in the relative phase correlation of wave-functions at different spatial points in a metal unless the fermions have closed trajectories in momentum space, for example those around isolated impurities.…

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Natural optical activity is the paradigmatic example of an effect originating in the weak spatial inhomogeneity of the electromagnetic field on the atomic scale. In molecules, such effects are well described by the multipole theory of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-31 Óscar Pozo , Ivo Souza

Motivated by recent progress in 2D spintronics, we present Eu deposited on a 1H-WSe$_2$ as a promising platform for engineering spin-orbit effects and Berry curvature. By first-principles calculations based on density functional theory, we…

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For a long period of time, we have been seeking how Berry curvature influnces the transport properties in materials breaking time-reversal symmetry. In time-reversal symmetric material, there will be no thermoelectric current induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Hongchao Li

Quantum geometry and topology are fundamental concepts of modern condensed matter physics, underpinning phenomena ranging from the quantum Hall effect to protected surface states. The Berry curvature, a central element of this framework, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Giancarlo Soavi , Jan Wilhelm

Under broken time reversal symmetry such as in the presence of external magnetic field or internal magnetization, a transverse voltage can be established in materials perpendicular to both longitudinal current and applied magnetic field,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-04 Hua Wang , Xiaofeng Qian

The Berry curvature (BC) - a quantity encoding the geometric properties of the electronic wavefunctions in a solid - is at the heart of different Hall-like transport phenomena, including the anomalous Hall and the non-linear Hall and Nernst…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Canio Noce , Andrea D. Caviglia , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

In the present paper, we propose a new way to classify centrosymmetric metals by studying the Zeeman effect caused by an external magnetic field described by the momentum dependent g-factor tensor on the Fermi surfaces. Nontrivial U(1)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Song Sun , Zhida Song , Hongming Weng , Xi Dai

The experimental manifestation of topological effects in bulk materials under ambient conditions, especially those with practical applications, has attracted enormous research interest. Recent discovery of Weyl semimetal provides an ideal…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-25 Junchao Ma , Qiangqiang Gu , Yinan Liu , Jiawei Lai , Yu Peng , Xiao Zhuo , Zheng Liu , Jian-Hao Chen , Ji Feng , Dong Sun

A strong coupling between electric polarization and elastic deformation in solids is an important factor in creating useful electromechanical nanodevices. Such coupling is typically allowed in insulating materials with inversion symmetry…

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The magnetoelectric (ME) effect traditionally arises from complex spin-orbital interactions in multiferroic materials. In this work, we propose a distinct, intrinsic mechanism for the magnetoelectric effect in quasi-2D magnetic systems that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Jin-Xin Hu

Berry curvature multipoles appearing in topological quantum materials have recently attracted much attention. Their presence can manifest in novel phenomena, such as nonlinear anomalous Hall effects (NLAHE). The notion of Berry curvature…

Using a semiclassical Green's function formalism, we discover the emergence of chiral and topological orbital magnetism in two-dimensional chiral spin textures by explicitly finding the corrections to the orbital magnetization, proportional…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-20 Fabian R. Lux , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Chiral materials have garnered significant attention in the field of condensed matter physics. Nevertheless, the magnetic moment induced by the chiral spatial motion of electrons in helical materials, such as elemental Te and Se, remains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Bumseop Kim , Dongbin Shin , Seon Namgung , Noejung Park , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Jeongwoo Kim

We investigate electron pairing in the presence of the Berry curvature field that ubiquitously exists in ferromagnetic metals with spin-orbit coupling. We show that a sufficiently strong Berry curvature field on the Fermi surface can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Junren Shi , Qian Niu

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

In this note we consider non-relativistic rotating fermi liquid in the presence of Berry curvature. The behavior of the system is then almost the same as in external magnetic field. We argue that there appears an analogue of chiral vortical…

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