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We develop a theory of nonlinear response to an electric field of two-dimensional (2D) fermions with topologically non-trivial wave functions characterized by the Berry phase $\Phi_n = n \pi, n = 1,2,...$. In particular, we find that owing…

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We study the background (equilibrium), linear and nonlinear spin currents in 2D Rashba spin-orbit coupled systems with Zeeman splitting and in 3D noncentrosymmetric metals using modified spin current operator by inclusion of the anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-05 Priyadarshini Kapri , Bashab Dey , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

We present measurements of the Berry Phase in a single solid-state spin qubit associated with the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. Our results demonstrate the remarkable degree of coherent control achievable in the presence of a highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Kai Zhang , Naufer M. Nusran , Bradley R. Slezak , M. V. Gurudev Dutt

Anomalous Hall effect and spin Hall effect originate due to spin-orbit coupling that in the Kohn-Luttinger ${\bf k}\cdot{\bf p}$ formalism is represented by anomalous terms in the coordinate and velocity operators. Relation of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emmanuel I. Rashba

The $\alpha$-$T_3$ model is characterized by a variable Berry phase that changes continuously from $\pi$ to $0$. We take advantage of this property to highlight the effects of this underlying geometrical phase on a number of physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 E. Illes , J. P. Carbotte , E. J. Nicol

We study paraxial beam propagation along the wedge axis of a disclinated amorphous medium. The defect-induced inhomogeneity results in Berry phase and curvature that are affected by the induced uniaxial anisotropy. The Berry phase manifests…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-28 Mohammad Mehrafarin , Shima Gholam-Mirzaei

We unveil the existence of a non-trivial Berry phase associated to the dynamics of a quantum particle in a one dimensional box with moving walls. It is shown that a suitable choice of boundary conditions has to be made in order to preserve…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Paolo Facchi , Giancarlo Garnero , Giuseppe Marmo , Joseph Samuel

Non-Abelian and non-adiabatic variants of Berry's geometric phase have been pivotal in the recent advances in fault tolerant quantum computation gates, while Berry's phase itself is at the heart of the study of topological phases of matter.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-30 H. M. Bharath , Matthew Boguslawski , Maryrose Barrios , Lin Xin , M. S. Chapman

The phase of a quantum state may not return to its original value after the system's parameters cycle around a closed path; instead, the wavefunction may acquire a measurable phase difference called the Berry phase. Berry phases typically…

We describe theoretically the process of multi-beam reflection in a two-dimensional electron system with a lateral potential barrier. Due to spin-orbital interaction, the reflection process leads to the formation of three beams with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. O. Govorov , A. V. Kalameitsev , J. P. Dulka

Unusual electronic property of a Weyl semi-metallic nanowire is revealed. Its band dispersion exhibits multiple subbands of partially flat dispersion, originating from the Fermi arc states. Remarkably, the lowest energy flat subbands bear a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yositake Takane

A valley-contrasting Berry curvature in bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides with spin-orbit coupling can generate valley magnetization when the inversion symmetry is broken, for example, by an electric field, regardless of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Vassilios Vargiamidis , P. Vasilopoulos , M. Tahir , Neophytos Neophytou

Guided waves and surface waves can be taken as two typical examples of structured optical fields with the transverse spin. Analytical derivations are developed to demonstrate that (i) guided waves also carry the transverse spin that depends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Zhi-Yong Wang , Bin Chen , Run-Xiang Wang , Shuang-Jin Shi , Qi Qiu , Xiao-Fei Li

We derive the general formula giving the Berry phase for an arbitrary spin, having both magnetic-dipole and electric-quadrupole couplings with external time-dependent fields. We assume that the effective E and B fields remain orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Marie-Anne Bouchiat , Claude Bouchiat

Spin wave, the collective excitation of magnetic order, is one of the fundamental angular momentum carriers in magnetic systems. Understanding the spin wave propagation in magnetic textures lies in the heart of developing pure magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Jin Lan , Weichao Yu , Jiang Xiao

We derive the semiclassical equations of motion of a transverse acoustical wave packet propagating in a phononic crystal subject to slowly varying perturbations. The formalism gives rise to Berry effect terms in the equations of motion,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Torabi , M. Mehrafarin

Berry phase physics is closely related to a number of topological states of matter. Recently discovered topological semimetals are believed to host a nontrivial $\pi$ Berry phase to induce a phase shift of $\pm 1/8$ in the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 C. M. Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

We present both the gauge theoretic description and the numerical calculations of the Berry phases with the real eigenstates, involving one with a many-body system as a background and the other with no such background. We demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 S. P. Hong , H. Doh , S. H. Suck Salk

We propose a novel spin-optronic device based on the interference of polaritonic waves traveling in opposite directions and gaining topological Berry phase. It is governed by the ratio of the TE-TM and Zeeman splittings, which can be used…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. A. Shelykh , G. Pavlovic , D. D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech

I generalize the concept of Berry's geometrical phase for quasicyclic Hamiltonians to the case in which the ground state evolves adiabatically to an excited state after one cycle, but returns to the ground state after an integer number of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Aligia