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We reveal strong and weak inequalities relating two fundamental macroscopic quantum geometric quantities, the quantum distance and Berry phase, for closed paths in the Hilbert space of wavefunctions. We recount the role of quantum geometry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Praveen Pai , Fan Zhang

The method of geometric quantization is applied to a particle moving on an arbitrary Riemannian manifold $Q$ in an external gauge field, that is a connection on a principal $H$-bundle $N$ over $Q$. The phase space of the particle is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 M. A. Robson

Two-dimensional materials are a fertile ground for exploring quantum geometric phenomena, with Berry curvature and its first moment, the Berry curvature dipole, playing a central role in their electronic response. These geometric properties…

Berry's geometric phase naturally appears when a quantum system is driven by an external field whose parameters are slowly and cyclically changed. A variation in the coupling between the system and the external field can also give rise to a…

We explore how quantum properties of spacetime, specifically the curvature of momentum space, can backreact on classical gravity within a tractable semiclassical (2+1)-dimensional framework with a negative cosmological constant. Motivated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Partha Nandi , Mainak Roy , Langa Horoto , Frederik G. Scholtz , Biswajit Chakraborty

Quantum geometry may enable the development of quantum phases ranging from superconductivity to correlated topological states. One powerful probe of quantum geometry is the nonlinear Hall response which detects Berry curvature dipole in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Yuan Fang , Shouvik Sur , Yonglong Xie , Qimiao Si

We investigate the quantum geometric tensor, which is comprised of the Berry curvature and quantum metric, in a generalized Dirac two-band system with non-integer dispersion $E(\mathbf{k})\sim k^{\alpha}$. Our analysis reveals that this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-03 Jamme Omar A. Biscocho , Kristian Hauser A. Villegas

A phenomenology for the deep spatial geometry of loop quantum gravity is introduced. In the context of a simple model, an atom of space, it is shown how purely combinatorial structures can affect observations. The angle operator is used to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Seth A. Major

Ever since its discovery, the Berry phase has permeated through all branches of physics. Over the last three decades, it was gradually realized that the Berry phase of the electronic wave function can have a profound effect on material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-01 Di Xiao , Ming-Che Chang , Qian Niu

Using tangent bundle geometry we construct an equivalent reformulation of classical field theory on flat spacetimes which simultaneously encodes the perspectives of multiple observers. Its generalization to curved spacetimes realizes a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

Canonical quantum gravity provides insights into the quantum dynamics as well as quantum geometry of space-time by its implications for constraints. Loop quantum gravity in particular requires specific corrections due to its quantization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Martin Bojowald

Spacetime geometry is supposed to be measured by identifying the trajectories of free test particles with geodesics. In practice, this cannot be done because, being described by Quantum Mechanics, particles do not follow trajectories. As a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Yuri Bonder

One of the standard approaches of incorporating the quantum gravity (QG) effects into the semiclassical analysis is to adopt the notion of a quantum-corrected spacetime arising from the QG model. This procedure assumes that the expectation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Harkirat Singh Sahota , Kinjalk Lochan

Quantum geometric tensor (QGT), including a symmetric real part defined as quantum metric and an antisymmetric part defined as Berry curvature, is essential for understanding many phenomena. We studied the photogalvanic effect of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Zhi Li , Takami Tohyama , Toshiaki Iitaka , Haibin Su , Haibo Zeng

The manifold of pure quantum states is a complex projective space endowed with the unitary-invariant geometry of Fubini and Study. According to the principles of geometric quantum mechanics, the detailed physical characteristics of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

Measurement plays a quintessential role in the control of quantum systems. Beyond initialization and readout which pertain to projective measurements, weak measurements in particular, through their back-action on the system, may enable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Yunzhao Wang , Kyrylo Snizhko , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen , Kater Murch

The quantum geometric properties of a Bloch state in momentum space are usually described by the Berry curvature and quantum metric. In realistic gapped materials where interactions and disorder render the Bloch state not a viable starting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-24 Wei Chen , Gero von Gersdorff

We derive semiclassical equations of motion for an accelerated wavepacket in a two-band system. We show that these equations can be formulated in terms of the static band geometry described by the quantum metric. We consider the specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 C. Leblanc , G. Malpuech , D. D. Solnyshkov

Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics is commonly formulated in terms of wavefunctions (probability amplitudes) obeying the static and the time-dependent Schroedinger equations (SE). Despite the success of this representation of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 Ivano Tavernelli

In quantum mechanics, a quantum wavepacket may acquire a geometrical phase as it evolves along a cyclic trajectory in parameter space. In condensed matter systems, the Berry phase plays a crucial role in fundamental phenomena such as the…