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Artificial crystals such as moir\'e superlattices can have a real-space periodicity much larger than the underlying atomic scale. This facilitates the presence of Bloch oscillations in the presence of a static electric field. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Christophe De Beule , E. J. Mele

We study the local and topological features of Berry phases associated with the adiabatic transport of vortices in a d-wave superconductor of lattice fermions. At half filling, where the local Berry curvature must vanish due to symmetries,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-03 Zhenyu Zhou , Oskar Vafek , Alexander Seidel

The theoretical identification of crystalline topological materials has enjoyed sustained success in simplified materials models, often by singling out discrete symmetry operations protecting the topological phase. When band structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Emanuele Maggio

Berry phase is a very general concept. It is applied here to families of solutions of the Dirac equation with different values of spin. The value of the Berry phase in the spin space is given by the same expression as was found before in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

The switching polarization of a ferroelectric is a characterization of the current that flows due to changes in polarization when the system is switched between two states. Computation of this change in polarization in crystal systems has…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-29 John Bonini , David Vanderbilt , Karin M. Rabe

The vibrational modes of Jahn-Teller molecules are affected by a Berry phase that is associated with a conical intersection of the adiabatic potentials. We investigate theoretically how this Berry phase affects transport through a single $E…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-22 Maximilian G. Schultz , Tamara S. Nunner , Felix von Oppen

The semiclassical quantization of cyclotron orbits for two-dimensional Bloch electrons in a coupled two band model with a particle-hole symmetric spectrum is considered. As concrete examples, we study graphene (both mono and bilayer) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. N. Fuchs , F. Piechon , M. O. Goerbig , G. Montambaux

Berry's phase is investigated for ultracold atoms in a frequency modulated optical lattice. It is shown that Berry's phase appears due to Bloch oscillation and the periodic motion of the optical lattice. Particularly, Berry's phase for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-09-21 C. Yuce

The photocurrent in an optically active metal is known to contain a component that switches sign with the helicity of the incident radiation. At low frequencies, this current depends on the orbital Berry phase of the Bloch electrons via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 J. E. Moore , J. Orenstein

The Berry phase of Bloch states can have profound effects on electron dynamics lead to novel transport phenomena, such as the anomalous Hall effect and the valley Hall effect. Recently, it was predicted that the Berry phase effect can also…

The Keldysh's theory of superfluidity of rarefied electron-hole gas is generalized to a case of possible pair polarizability. It was shown that inhomogeneity of the system leads to dipole moment which is proportional to the density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 S. I. Shevchenko , A. S. Rukin

We extend the Berry-phase concept of polarization to insulators having a non-zero value of the Chern invariant. The generalization to such Chern insulators requires special care because of the partial occupation of chiral edge states. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-23 Sinisa Coh , David Vanderbilt

Recently, a chirality-driven contribution to the anomalous Hall effect has been found that is induced by the Berry phase and does not directly involve spin-orbit coupling. In this paper, we will investigate this effect numerically in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 G. Metalidis , P. Bruno

The effect of inter-subsystem couplings on the Berry phase of a composite system as well as that of its subsystem is investigated in this paper. We analyze two coupled spin-$\frac 1 2 $ particles with one driven by a quantized field as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. C. Wang , H. T. Cui , X. X. Yi

Recent theoretical advances have established that the electric polarization in an insulating crystal can be viewed as a multivalued quantity that is determined by certain Berry phases associated with the occupied Bloch bands. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 David Vanderbilt

The effect of fluctuations in the classical control parameters on the Berry phase of a spin 1/2 interacting with a adiabatically cyclically varying magnetic field is analyzed. It is explicitly shown that in the adiabatic limit dephasing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriele De Chiara , G. Massimo Palma

Within the context of very simple avoided crossing, we investigate the investigate the effect of a complex diabatic coupling in determining spin-dependent rate constants and scattering states. We find that, if the molecular geometry is not…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yanze Wu , Gaohan Miao , Joseph Subotnik

The Berry curvature (BC) - a quantity encoding the geometric properties of the electronic wavefunctions in a solid - is at the heart of different Hall-like transport phenomena, including the anomalous Hall and the non-linear Hall and Nernst…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Canio Noce , Andrea D. Caviglia , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

We study spin parity effects and the quantum propagation of solitons (Bloch walls) in quasi-one dimensional ferromagnets. Within a coherent state path integral approach we derive a quantum field theory for nonuniform spin configurations.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Hans-Benjamin Braun , Daniel Loss

When quasiparticles move in condensed matters, the texture of their internal quantum structure as a function of position and momentum can give rise to Berry phases that have profound effects on materials properties. Seminal examples include…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Hongyi Yu , Mingxing Chen , Wang Yao