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Weyl semimetals are crystals in which electron bands cross at isolated points in momentum space. Associated with each crossing point (or Weyl node) is an integer topological invariant known as the Berry monopole charge. The discovery of new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Dylan Rees , Kaustuv Manna , Baozhu Lu , Takahiro Morimoto , Horst Borrmann , Claudia Felser , J. E. Moore , Darius H. Torchinsky , J. Orenstein

Nonlinear responses in condensed matters attract recent intensive interest because they provide rich information about the materials and hold the possibility of being applied in diodes or high-frequency optical devices. Nonlinear responses…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Yoshihiro Michishita , Naoto Nagaosa

We propose the linear and nonlinear planar Hall effect (PHE) in tilted Weyl semimetals in the presence of an in-plane magnetic and electric field, where the field-induced Berry connection (FBC) plays a key role. We show that the PHE is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 YuanDong Wang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

Motivated by important applications in image processing, we study a class of second-order geometric quasilinear hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). This is inspired by the recent development of second-order damping systems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Ye Zhang

The Berry curvature characterizes one aspect of the geometry of quantum states. It materializes, among other consequences, as an anomalous velocity of wave packets. In non-Hermitian systems, wave packet dynamics is enriched by additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Jan Behrends , Roni Ilan , Moshe Goldstein

We propose a method to detect the geometric phase produced by the Dirac-type band structure of a triangular-lattice photonic crystal. The spectrum is known to have a conical singularity (= Dirac point) with a pair of nearly degenerate modes…

Optics · Physics 2008-08-04 R. A. Sepkhanov , Johan Nilsson , C. W. J. Beenakker

Ideally, strong non-linearities could be used to implement quantum gates for photonic qubits by well controlled two photon interactions. However, the dependence of the non-linear interaction on frequency and time makes it difficult to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-11 Holger F. Hofmann , Hitoshi Nishitani

We report on a strong nonlinear behavior of the photogalvanics and photoconductivity under excitation of HgTe quantum wells (QWs) by intense terahertz (THz) radiation. The increasing radiation intensity causes an inversion of the sign of…

Symmetry-driven phenomena arising in nonlocal metasurfaces supporting quasi-bound states in the continuum (q-BICs) have been opening new avenues to tailor enhanced light-matter interactions via perturbative design principles. Geometric…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-28 Adam Overvig , Yoshiaki Kasahara , Gengyu Xu , Andrea Alù

We report on a dynamic photoconductive gain effect in quantum wires which are lithographically fabricated in an AlGaAs/GaAs quantum well via a shallow-etch technique. The effect allows resolving the one-dimensional subbands of the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. -D. Hof , C. Rossler , S. Manus , J. P. Kotthaus , A. W. Holleitner , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider

The discovery of the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in noncollinear antiferromagnets where transverse Hall voltage emerges without magnetic field, has opened a plethora of promising opportunities in antiferromagnetic devices. The key…

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

Waves play an essential role in many aspects of plasma science, such as plasma manipulation and diagnostics. Due to the complexity of the governing equations, approximate models are often necessary to describe wave dynamics. In this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-21 D. E. Ruiz

The dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect, indicative of the transient light-matter interaction regime between quantum and classical realms, is widely recognized as an essential signature in wide bandgap condensed matter systems such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Youngjae Kim

We investigate the effect of ellipticity ratio of the polarized radiation field on optoelectronic properties of a two-dimensional (2D) semi-Dirac (SD) system. The optical conductivity is calculated within the energy balance equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 H. Y. Zhang , Y. M. Xiao , Q. N. Li , L. Ding , B. Van Duppen , W. Xu , F. M. Peeters

Many-body correlations are known to be responsible for a broad range of fascinating physical phenomena, introducing corrections that appear elusive at the mean-field level. An example of this is the Lifshitz transition that occurs as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Franz Fischer , Abderrezak Torche , Marta Prada , Gabriel Bester

A systematic theory of the conductance measurements of non-invasive (weak probe) scanning gate microscopy is presented that provides an interpretation of what precisely is being measured. A scattering approach is used to derive explicit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 C. Gorini , R. A. Jalabert , W. Szewc , S. Tomsovic , D. Weinmann

Model calculation and experimental data of circularly-polarized-light-dependent photocurrent in a n-AlGaAs/p-InGaAs/p-GaAs heterostructure are reported. It is found that, under the appropriate forward bias condition, spin voltaic effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Kondo , J. Hayafuji , H. Munekata

Third-order nonlinear Hall effects (THE) have recently attracted considerable experimental interest as powerful probes for quantum geometric properties in emergent quantum materials, encompassing quadrupole moments of quantum metric and…

Excitation of a topological insulator by a high-frequency electric field of a laser radiation leads to a dc electric current in the helical edge channel whose direction and magnitude are sensitive to the radiation polarization and depend on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 M. V. Durnev , S. A. Tarasenko