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The theory of bulk orbital magnetization has been formulated both in reciprocal space based on Berry curvature and related quantities, and in real space in terms of the spatial average of a quantum mechanical local marker. Here we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Daniel Seleznev , David Vanderbilt

We apply a microscopic theory of polarization and magnetization to crystalline insulators at zero temperature and consider the orbital electronic contribution of the linear response to spatially varying, time-dependent electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Perry T. Mahon , J. E. Sipe

We prove the existence of a set of two-scale magnetic Wannier orbitals w_{m,n}(r) on the infinite plane. The quantum numbers of these states are the positions {m,n} of their centers which form a von Neumann lattice. Function w_{00}localized…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. I. Rashba , L. E. Zhukov , A. L. Efros

Both spin and orbital degrees of freedom contribute to the magnetic moment of isolated atoms. However, when inserted in crystals, atomic orbital moments are quenched because of the lack of rotational symmetry that protects them when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 P. Potasz , J. Fernandez-Rossier

Using the semiclassical theory of electron dynamics, we derive a gauge-invariant expression for the spin toroidization in a periodical crystal. We show that the spin toroidization is comprised of two contributions: one is due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Yang Gao , David Vanderbilt , Di Xiao

The magnetic response of strongly localized electrons to a time-dependent vector potential is considered. The orbital magnetic moment of the system, away from steady-state conditions, is obtained. The expression involves the tunneling and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. Galperin , O. Entin-Wohlman

We derive the effective heat current density operator for the strong-coupling regime of Mott insulators. Similarly to the case of the electric current density, the leading contribution to this effective operator is proportional to the local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-05 Shi-Zeng Lin , Cristian D. Batista

We derive an exact expression for the orbital magnetization of electrons with short-range interactions (such as density-density interactions) in terms of exact zero-frequency response functions of the zero-field system. The result applies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-03 Xi Chen , Zhi-Da Song

We establish thermodynamic stability and gauge invariance in the magnetovortical matter of Dirac fermions under the coexistent rotation and strong magnetic field. The corresponding partition function reveals that the orbital contribution to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 Kenji Fukushima , Koichi Hattori , Kazuya Mameda

The relationship between the modern and classical Landau's approach to carrier orbital magnetization is studied theoretically within the envelope function approximation, taking ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As as an example. It is shown that while…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-04 Cezary Śliwa , Tomasz Dietl

A large body of knowledge about magnetism is attained from models of interacting spins, which usually reside on magnetic ions. Proposals beyond the ionic picture are uncommon and seldom verified by direct observations in conjunction with…

The intrinsic orbital magnetization of a TMD monolayer is usually calculated for a plane unbounded system without mentioning the geometrical shape of samples and boundary conditions (BCs) for electron wave functions. The method of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 A. V. Chaplik , L. I. Magarill

A recent paper on the insulating state of monolayer WTe2 reported the observation of large oscillations in the conductivity that are periodic in 1/B, resembling quantum oscillations in metals. This remarkable observation has inspired…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-20 Patrick A. Lee

The theoretical treatment of homogeneous static magnetic fields in periodic systems is challenging, as the corresponding vector potential breaks the translational invariance of the Hamiltonian. Based on density operators and perturbation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 X. Gonze , J. W. Zwanziger

The modern theory of polarization allows for the determination of the macroscopic end charge of a truncated one-dimensional insulator, modulo the charge quantum $e$, from a knowledge of bulk properties alone. A more subtle problem is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Shang Ren , Ivo Souza , David Vanderbilt

For ferrofluids that are described by a system of hard spheres interacting via dipolar forces we evaluate the magnetization as a function of the internal magnetic field with a Born--Mayer technique and an expansion in the dipolar coupling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 B. Huke , M. Lücke

We compute the orbital magnetization in real materials by evaluating a recently discovered formula for periodic systems, within density functional theory. We obtain improved values of the orbital magnetization in the ferromagnetic metals…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-19 Davide Ceresoli , Uwe Gerstmann , Ari P. Seitsonen , Francesco Mauri

We describe a method to calculate the electronic properties of an insulator under an applied electric field. It is based on the minimization of an electric enthalpy functional with respect to the orbitals, which behave as Wannier functions…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-22 Pawel Lenarczyk , Mathieu Luisier

We demonstrate that nontrivial multiband topological invariants of electronic wavefunctions can be revealed through orbital magnetization responses to external magnetic fields. We find that decomposing orbital magnetization into energetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Chun Wang Chau , Robert-Jan Slager , Wojciech J. Jankowski

Orbital magnetism is a purely quantum phenomenon that reflects intrinsic electronic properties of solids, yet its microscopic description in interacting multiband systems remains incomplete. We develop a general quantum many-body framework…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-22 Mengxing Ye