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We present the time-dependent Quantum Geometric Tensor (tQGT) as a comprehensive tool for capturing the geometric character of insulators observable within linear response. We show that tQGT describes the zero-point motion of bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Nishchhal Verma , Raquel Queiroz

Geometry plays a fundamental role in a wide range of physical responses, from anomalous transport coefficients to their related sum rules. Notable examples include the quantization of the Hall conductivity and the Souza-Wilkens-Martin (SWM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Guangyue Ji , David E. Palomino , Nathan Goldman , Tomoki Ozawa , Peter Riseborough , Jie Wang , Bruno Mera

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 quantum geometric tensor (QGT) reveals local geometric properties and associated topological information of quantum states. Here a generalization of the QGT to mixed quantum states at finite temperatures based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Zheng Zhou , Xu-Yang Hou , Xin Wang , Jia-Chen Tang , Hao Guo , Chih-Chun Chien

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) provides nontrivial bounds among physical quantities, as exemplified by the metric-curvature inequality. In this paper, we investigate various bounds for different observables through certain…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Koki Shinada , Naoto Nagaosa

The quantum geometric tensor, composed of the quantum metric tensor and Berry curvature, fully encodes the parameter space geometry of a physical system. We first provide a formulation of the quantum geometrical tensor in the path integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Sergio B. Juárez , Diego Gonzalez , Daniel Gutiérrez-Ruiz , J. David Vergara

Periodically driven coherent conductors provide a universal platform for the development of quantum transport devices. Here, we lay down a comprehensive theory to describe the thermodynamics of these systems. We first focus on moderate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Elina Potanina , Christian Flindt , Michael Moskalets , Kay Brandner

A series of geometric concepts are formulated for $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics and they are further unified into one entity, i.e., an extended quantum geometric tensor (QGT). The imaginary part of the extended QGT gives a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Da-Jian Zhang , Qing-hai Wang , Jiangbin Gong

We establish a finite-time quantum tricycle driven by an external field and investigate its thermodynamic performance in the slow-driving regime. By developing a perturbative expansion of heat with respect to operation time, we capture the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Shihao Xia , Jingyi Chen , Jincan Chen , Shanhe Su

We demonstrate that the non-Hermitian quantum geometric tensor (QGT) governs nonlinear electrical responses in systems with a spectral line gap. The quantum metric, which is the symmetric component of the QGT and takes complex values in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Kai Chen , Jie Zhu

We define a time-dependent extension of the quantum geometric tensor to describe the geometry of the time-parameter space for a quantum state, by considering small variations in both time and wave function parameters. Compared to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Bogar Díaz , Diego Gonzalez , Marcos J. Hernández , J. David Vergara

We discuss the temperature-dependent thermoelectric transport properties of semiconductor nanostructures comprising a quantum dot coupled to quantum wires: the thermal dependence of the electrical conductance, thermal conductance, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 D. F. Aranguren-Quintero , E. Ramos , J. Silva-Valencia , M. S. Figueira , L. N. Oliveira , R. Franco

We develop a unified framework to compute band-geometric quantities in multiband systems whose low-energy Hamiltonians realize arbitrary $SU(2)$ representations. Exploiting the presence of a quantization axis, we use the Wigner--Eckart…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Rhonald Burgos Atencia

We present a general unified approach for the study of quantum thermal machines, including both heat engines and refrigerators, operating under periodic adiabatic driving and in contact with thermal reservoirs kept at different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Bibek Bhandari , Pablo Terrén Alonso , Fabio Taddei , Felix von Oppen , Rosario Fazio , Liliana Arrachea

Differential geometry offers a powerful framework for optimising and characterising finite-time thermodynamic processes, both classical and quantum. Here, we start by a pedagogical introduction to the notion of thermodynamic length. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Paolo Abiuso , Harry J. D. Miller , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Matteo Scandi

We derive fundamental per-channel bounds on angle-integrated absorption and thermal radiation for arbitrary bodies---for any given material susceptibility and bounding region---that simultaneously encode both the per-volume limit on…

Thermoelectric metamaterials featuring width modulation through constrictions (constricted geometries) have emerged as a promising approach for improving heat management and thermoelectric performance. Through a combination of theoretical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Xanthippi Zianni

We formulate a geometric framework in which physical laws emerge from restricted access to microscopic information. Measurement constraints are modeled as a gauge symmetry acting on density operators, inducing a gauge-reduced space of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Tiago Pernambuco , Lucas Chibebe Céleri

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 identify quantum geometric bounds for observables in non-Hermitian systems. We find unique bounds on non-Hermitian quantum geometric tensors, generalized two-point response correlators, conductivity tensors, and optical weights. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Milosz Matraszek , Wojciech J. Jankowski , Jan Behrends
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