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The dynamics of a molecule in a magnetic field is significantly different form its zero-field counterpart. One important difference in the presence of a field is the Lorentz force acting on the nuclei, which can be decomposed as the sum of…

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Berry phases have long been known to significantly alter the properties of periodic systems, resulting in anomalous terms in the semiclassical equations of motion describing wave-packet dynamics. In non-Hermitian systems, generalizations of…

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We propose a novel means to isolate and quantify the effects of Berry force on molecular dynamics using two reasonably strong continuous wave (CW) laser fields with frequencies $\omega$ and $2\omega$. For molecules or materials with three…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Zeyu Zhou , Joseph E. Subotnik , Hsing-Ta Chen

The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is investigated in hematite, a collinear antiferromagnetic insulator, across a broad wavelength spectrum. By combining the optical measurements with magnetometry results, we unambiguously demonstrate…

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Finite-momentum Cooper pairing is an unconventional form of superconductivity that is widely believed to require finite magnetization. Altermagnetism is an emerging magnetic phase with highly anisotropic spin-splitting of specific…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-01 Song-Bo Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Titus Neupert

"Half moons", distinctive crescent patterns in the dynamical structure factor, have been identified in inelastic neutron scattering experiments for a wide range of frustrated magnets. In an earlier paper [H. Yan et al., Phys. Rev. B 98,…

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The Berry curvature dipole is a physical quantity that is expected to allow various quantum geometrical phenomena in a range of solid-state systems. Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides provide an exceptional platform to modulate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Joolee Son , Kyung-Han Kim , Y. H. Ahn , Hyun-Woo Lee , Jieun Lee

We experimentally observe the quantum geometric tensor, namely the quantum metric and the Berry curvature, for a square lattice of radiatively coupled plasmonic nanoparticles. We observe a non-zero Berry curvature and show that it arises…

MnTe has recently emerged as a canonical altermagnet, a newly identified class of magnetism characterized by compensated antiferromagnetic order coexisting with spin-split electronic bands, traditionally considered exclusive to…

While a specific kind of strange metal is increasingly found to be the "normal" states in a wide variety of unconventional superconductors, its microscopic origin is presently a hotly debated enigma. Using dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT)…

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Despite time-reversal breaking in momentum space, several altermagnets remain electrically silent to the primary characterization tool anomalous Hall effect, due to crystalline symmetries, jeopardizing their experimental identification.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Kamal Das , Binghai Yan

Altermagnets (AM) are a recently discovered third class of collinear magnets, distinctly different from conventional ferromagnets (FM) and antiferromagnets (AF). AM have been actively researched in the last few years, but two aspects so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Igor Mazin , Rafael González-Hernández , Libor Šmejkal

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics exploits the N\'eel vector as a state variable for novel spintronic devices. Recent studies have shown that the field-like and antidamping spin-orbit torques (SOT) can be used to switch the N\'eel vector…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-18 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Gautam Gurung , Wen Yang , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

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…

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

Ideal Chern insulating phases arise in two-dimensional systems with broken time-reversal symmetry. They are characterized by having nearly-flat bands, and a uniform quantum geometry -- which combines the Berry curvature and quantum metric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Christian Northe , Giandomenico Palumbo , Jonathan Sturm , Christian Tutschku , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Recent studies on altermagnets have focused considerable attention on nonrelativistic effects that persist in the absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC). As a result, the relative importance of various phenomena in altermagnets has commonly…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Xukun Feng , Jin Cao , Lay Kee Ang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Cong Xiao , X. C. Xie

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

Altermagnets are an emerging third elementary class of magnets. Unlike ferromagnets, their distinct crystal symmetries inhibit magnetization while, unlike antiferromagnets, they promote strong spin polarization in the band structure. The…

We consider the phenomenon of natural optical activity, and related chiral magnetic effect in metals with low carrier concentration. To reveal the correspondence between the two phenomena, we compute the optical conductivity of a…

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