Geometric orbital magnetization in adiabatic processes
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2019-08-12 v2
Abstract
We consider periodic adiabatic processes of gapped many-body spinless electrons. We find an additional contribution to the orbital magnetization due to the adiabatic time evolution, dubbed \textit{geometric} orbital magnetization, which can be expressed as derivative of the many-body Berry phase with respect to an external magnetic field. For two-dimensional band insulators, we show that the geometric orbital magnetization generally consists of two pieces, the topological piece that is expressed as third Chern-Simons form in space, and the non-topological piece that depends on Bloch states and energies of both occupied and unoccupied bands.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.11394,
title = {Geometric orbital magnetization in adiabatic processes},
author = {Luka Trifunovic and Seishiro Ono and Haruki Watanabe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.11394},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Published version with few typos corrected. 15 pages, 5 figures