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Quantum geometry characterizes the variation of wavefunctions in momentum space through their overlaps and relative phases, providing a general framework for understanding many transport and optical properties. It is generally formulated in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Alejandro S. Miñarro , Gervasi Herranz

Flat-band superconductors provide a regime in which kinetic energy is quenched, so that pairing is governed primarily by interactions and quantum geometry. We investigate characteristic superconducting length scales in all-flat-band systems…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-13 S. S. Elden , M. Iskin

The coherence length $\xi$ is the fundamental length scale of superconductors which governs the sizes of Cooper pairs, vortices, Andreev bound states, and more. In BCS theory, the coherence length is $\xi_\mathrm{BCS} = \hbar v_{F}/\Delta$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-20 Jin-Xin Hu , Shuai A. Chen , K. T. Law

A critical result in superconductivity is that flat bands, though dispersionless, can still host nonzero superfluid weight due to quantum geometry. We show that the derivation of the mean field superfluid weight in previous literature is…

Quantum geometry, which describes the geometry of Bloch wavefunctions in solids, has become a cornerstone of modern quantum condensed matter physics. The quantum geometrical tensor encodes this geometry through two fundamental components:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-04 Anyuan Gao , Naoto Nagaosa , Ni Ni , Su-Yang Xu

In this paper, we extend the quantum geometric tensor for parameter-dependent curved spaces to higher dimensions, and introduce an equivalent definition that generalizes the Zanardi, et al, formulation of the tensor. The parameter-dependent…

The importance of the quantum metric in flat-band systems has been noticed recently in many contexts such as the superfluid stiffness, the dc electrical conductivity, and ideal Chern insulators. Both the quantum metric of degenerate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Bruno Mera , Johannes Mitscherling

Quantum geometry defines the phase and amplitude distances between quantum states. The phase distance is characterized by the Berry curvature and thus relates to topological phenomena. The significance of the full quantum geometry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-20 Paivi Torma

One of the most celebrated accomplishments of modern physics is the description of fundamental principles of nature in the language of geometry. As the motion of celestial bodies is governed by the geometry of spacetime, the motion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Tianyu Liu , Xiao-Bin Qiang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Berry curvature-related topological phenomena have been a central topic in condensed matter physics. Yet, until recently other quantum geometric quantities such as the metric and connection received only little attention due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Yiyang Jiang , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

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…

Coulomb repulsion can, counterintuitively, mediate Cooper pairing via the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism. However, it is commonly believed that observability of the effect requires special circumstances -- e.g., vicinity of the Fermi level to van…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-01 Gal Shavit , Jason Alicea

Geometry of the wave function is a central pillar of modern solid state physics. In this work, we unveil the wave-function geometry of two-dimensional semimetals with band crossing points (BCPs). We show that the Berry phase of BCPs are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Yoonseok Hwang , Junseo Jung , Jun-Won Rhim , Bohm-Jung Yang

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

The symmetry of Cooper pairs encodes key information about superconductivity and has been widely studied through the temperature dependence of the superfluid weight. However, in systems dominated by quantum geometry, conventional theories…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-20 Yuma Hirobe , Taisei Kitamura , Youichi Yanase

Quantum geometry governs a wide range of transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials. Recent works have explored analogue electromagnetism and gravity in terms of the quantum geometric tensor, whose real and imaginary parts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Maranzana , Koki Shinada , Ying-Ming Xie , Sergey Artyukhin , Naoto Nagaosa

Berry curvature is an imaginary component of the quantum geometric tensor (QGT) and is well studied in many branches of modern physics; however, the quantum metric as a real component of the QGT is less explored. Here, by using tunable…

The local geometry of the parameter space of a quantum system is described by the quantum metric tensor and the Berry curvature, which are two fundamental objects that play a crucial role in understanding geometrical aspects of condensed…

We construct a theory for the semiclassical dynamics of superconducting quasiparticles by following their wave-packet motion and reveal rich contents of Berry curvature effects in the phase-space spanned by position and momentum. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-12 Zhi Wang , Liang Dong , Cong Xiao , Qian Niu

We introduce a quantum geometric tensor in a curved space with a parameter-dependent metric, which contains the quantum metric tensor as the symmetric part and the Berry curvature corresponding to the antisymmetric part. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Joan A. Austrich-Olivares , J. David Vergara
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