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We show that the charge conductivity for impurity free multi band electronic systems can be expressed in terms of the diagonal and non-diagonal elements of the Zitterbewegung amplitudes while the Berry curvature and the Chern number is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 József Cserti , Gyula Dávid

The Zitterbewegung phenomenon in multiband electronic systems is known to be subtly related to the charge conductivity, Berry curvature and the Chern number. Here we show that some spin-dependent properties as the optical spin conductivity,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 F. Mireles , E. Ortiz

We examine several properties of the Berry curvature for the organic conductor $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ consisting of four bands, which exhibits a zero-gap state with Dirac cones. By adding a small potential acting on two molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yoshikazu Suzumura , Akito Kobayashi

We show that the position-momentum duality offers a transparent interpretation of the band geometry at the topological band crossings. Under this duality, the band geometry with Berry connection is dual to the free-electron motion under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Yu-Ping Lin , Wei-Han Hsiao

Quantum geometry has emerged as a central and ubiquitous concept in quantum sciences, with direct consequences on quantum metrology and many-body quantum physics. In this context, two fundamental geometric quantities are known to play…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Bruno Mera , Anwei Zhang , Nathan Goldman

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

We obtain the band structure of a particle moving in a magnetic spin texture, classified by its chirality and structure factor, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. This rich interplay leads to a variety of novel topological phases…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-17 Timothy M. McCormick , Nandini Trivedi

Berry curvature is a fundamental element to characterize topological quantum physics, while a full measurement of Berry curvature in momentum space was not reported for topological states. Here we achieve two-dimensional Berry curvature…

Geometrical properties of energy bands underlie fascinating phenomena in a wide-range of systems, including solid-state materials, ultracold gases and photonics. Most famously, local geometrical characteristics like the Berry curvature can…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-20 Martin Wimmer , Hannah M. Price , Iacopo Carusotto , Ulf Peschel

In non-relativistic physics, the concepts of geometry and topology are usually applied to characterize spatial structures or structures in momentum space. We introduce the concept of temporal geometry, which encompasses the geometric and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Andres F. Ordonez , Aycke Roos , Pablo M. Maier , Piero Decleva , David Ayuso , Olga Smirnova

Topological node of electronic bands can carry emergent charge degree of freedom such as the Berry curvature monopole of the Weyl semimetals, which results in intriguing transport and optical phenomena. In this study, we discuss the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Kohei Hattori , Hikaru Watanabe , Ryotaro Arita

Berry curvature that describes local geometrical properties of energy bands can elucidate many fascinating phenomena in solid-state, photonic, and phononic systems, given its connection to global topological invariants such as the Chern…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-21 Xuefan Yin , Ye Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zixuan Zhang , Susumu Noda , Chao Peng

The topology of the electronic band structure of solids can be described by its Berry curvature distribution across the Brillouin zone. We theoretically introduce and experimentally demonstrate a general methodology based on the measurement…

Quantum geometry encoded in the momentum space structure of electronic wavefunctions, governs charge dynamics through Berry curvature, enabling unconventional transport and optical responses. In topological semimetals, this geometry is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sobhan Subhra Mishra , Thomas CaiWei Tan , Faxian Xiu , Ranjan Singh

In the most general geometric background, we study Dirac spinor fields with particular emphasis given to the explicit form of their gauge momentum and the way in which this can be inverted so to give the expression of the corresponding…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Luca Fabbri

We investigate parity-odd non-dissipative transport in an anisotropic Dirac semi-metal in two spatial dimensions. The analysis is relevant for interacting electronic systems with merging Dirac points at charge neutrality. For such systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-29 Francisco Pena-Benitez , Kush Saha , Piotr Surowka

Based on the mathematics of noncommutative geometry, we model a 'classical' Dirac fermion propagating in a curved spacetime. We demonstrate that the inherent causal structure of the model encodes the possibility of Zitterbewegung - the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Michał Eckstein , Nicolas Franco , Tomasz Miller

Experimentally feasible methods to determine the Berry phase, a fundamental quantity characterizing a quantum material, are often needed in applications. We develop an approach to detecting the Berry phase by using a class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Li-Li Ye , Cheng-Zhen Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai

Graphene bilayers with layer antisymmetric strains are studied using the Dirac-Harper model for a pair of single layer Dirac Hamiltonians coupled by a one-dimensional moir\'e-periodic interlayer tunneling amplitude. This model hosts low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Abigail Timmel , E. J. Mele

We explore the dynamics of two-dimensional massless Dirac-fermions within a quantum shutter approach, which involves the time-evolution of an initial cut-off plane wave. We show that the probability density is governed by an interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Elmer Cruz , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Jorge Villavicencio
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