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In quantum mechanics it is often required to describe in a semiclassical approximation the motion of particles moving within a given energy band. Such a representation leads to the appearance of an analogues of fictitious forces in the…

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The time evolution of wavepackets in crystals in the presence of a homogeneous electric field is formulated in k-space in a numerically tractable form. The dynamics is governed by separate equations for the motion of the waveform in k-space…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Pruneda , Ivo Souza

We investigate the scattering of a three-dimensional massless Dirac particle through a domain wall separating two regions with identical energy spectra but distinct Berry curvature dipoles. We demonstrate that the quantum geometric mismatch…

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In a pristine monolayer graphene subjected to a constant electric field along the layer, the Bloch oscillation of an electron is studied in a simple and efficient way. By using the electronic dispersion relation, the formula of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Tongyun Huang , Ruofan Chen , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

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

An isolated classical chaotic system, when driven by the slow change of several parameters, responds with two reaction forces: geometric friction and geometric magnetism. By using the theory of quantum fluctuation relations we show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-25 Michele Campisi , Sergey Denisov , Peter Hänggi

We study the dynamics of an electron wave-packet in a two-dimensional square lattice with an aperiodic site potential in the presence of an external uniform electric field. The aperiodicity is described by $\epsilon_{\bf m} =…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-11-19 F. A. B. F. de Moura , L. P. Viana , M. L. Lyra , V. A. Malyshev , F. Dominguez-Adame

The quantum metric and Berry curvature capture essential properties of non-trivial Bloch states and underpin many fascinating phenomena. However, it becomes increasingly evident that a more comprehensive understanding of quantum state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-07 Alexander Avdoshkin , Johannes Mitscherling , Joel E. Moore

Under the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, the electronic ground state evolves adiabatically and can accumulate geometrical phases characterized by the molecular Berry curvature. In this work, we study the effect of the molecular Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Daniyar Saparov , Bangguo Xiong , Yafei Ren , Qian Niu

Recently, the semiclassical theory of the anomalous Hall effect induced by the Berry curvature in Bloch bands has been introduced. The theory operates only with gauge invariant concepts, that have a simple semiclassical interpretation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. A. Sinitsyn

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

Topological Physics relies on the specific structure of the eigenstates of Hamiltonians. Their geometry is encoded in the quantum geometric tensor containing both the celebrated Berry curvature, crucial for topological matter, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 A. Gianfrate , O. Bleu , L. Dominici , V. Ardizzone , M. De Giorgi , D. Ballarini , K. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , D. D. Solnyshkov , D. Sanvitto , G. Malpuech

The calculation of quantum-geometric properties of Bloch electrons -- Berry curvature, quantum metric, orbital magnetic moment and effective mass -- was implemented in a pseudopotential plane-wave code. The starting point was the first…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-29 José Luís Martins , Carlos Loia Reis , Ivo Souza

We propose that a nonlinear Hall response can be observed in Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms in optical lattices under the condition of preserved time-reversal symmetry. In the short-time limit of Bloch oscillations driven by a direct…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-26 Xiao-Long Chen , Wei Zheng

Quantum geometry quantifies how the single-particle Bloch wavefunction changes in phase and amplitude across the Brillouin Zone. In multi-orbital systems where bands have strongly mixed orbital composition, quantum geometry plays a vital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-27 Jixun K. Ding , Martin Claassen

The exploration of the Berry phase in classical mechanics has opened new frontiers in understanding the dynamics of physical systems, analogous to quantum mechanics. Here, we show controlled accumulation of the Berry phase in a two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Kazi T. Mahmood , M. Arif Hasan

A model for quantum dots is proposed, in which the motion of a few electrons in a three-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential under the influence of a homogeneous magnetic field of arbitrary direction is studied. The spectrum and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. D. Heiss , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We investigate quantum phase transitions, quantum criticality, and Berry phase for the ground state of an ensemble of non-interacting two-level atoms embedded in a non-linear optical medium, coupled to a single-mode quantized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 C. A. Estrada Guerra , J. Mahecha-Gómez , J. G. Hirsch

We study the dynamics of a quantum walker simultaneously subjected to time-independent and -dependent phases. Such dynamics emulates a charged quantum particle in a lattice subjected to a superposition of static and harmonic electric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 A. R. C. Buarque , M. L. Lyra , W. S. Dias

Phases arising from cyclic processes are fundamental in physics, bridging quantum and classical domains and providing deeper insights into the topology and dynamics of physical systems. This study investigates the accumulation of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kazi T. Mahmood , M. Arif Hasan