Quantum geometry in condensed matter

T Liu, XB Qiang, HZ Lu, XC Xie - National Science Review, 2024 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Tunable moiré materials for probing Berry physics and topology

PC Adak, S Sinha, A Agarwal… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Berry curvature physics and quantum geometric effects have been instrumental in
advancing topological condensed matter physics in recent decades. Although Landau level …

Quantum geometry induced third-order nonlinear transport responses

D Mandal, S Sarkar, K Das, A Agarwal - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Nonlinear transport phenomena offer an exciting probe into the band geometry and
symmetry properties of a system. While most studies on nonlinear transport have looked at …

Light-enhanced nonlinear Hall effect

F Qin, R Chen, CH Lee - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The Hall response can be dramatically different from its quantized value in materials with
broken inversion symmetry. This stems from the leading Hall contribution beyond the linear …

Nonlinear valley Hall effect

K Das, K Ghorai, D Culcer, A Agarwal - Physical review letters, 2024 - APS
The valley Hall effect arises from valley-contrasting Berry curvature and requires inversion
symmetry breaking. Here, we propose a nonlinear mechanism to generate a valley Hall …

Intrinsic nonlinear Ohmic current

YD Wang, ZF Zhang, ZG Zhu, G Su - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
It is known that intrinsic currents in magnetic metals often appear in the direction
perpendicular to the external field for linear and nonlinear responses. Distinct from three …

Probing quantum geometry through optical conductivity and magnetic circular dichroism

B Ghosh, Y Onishi, SY Xu, H Lin, L Fu, A Bansil - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Probing ground-state quantum geometry and topology through optical responses is not only
of fundamental interest, but it can also offer several practical advantages. Here, using first …

Intrinsic nonlinear conductivity induced by quantum geometry in altermagnets and measurement of the in-plane Néel vector

M Ezawa - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The z-component of the Néel vector is measurable by the anomalous Hall conductivity in
altermagnets because time reversal symmetry is broken. On the other hand, it is a nontrivial …

Analytic approach to quantum metric and optical conductivity in Dirac models with parabolic mass in arbitrary dimensions

M Ezawa - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The imaginary part of the quantum geometric tensor is the Berry curvature, while the real
part is the quantum metric. Dirac fermions derived from a tight-binding model naturally …

Linear displacement current solely driven by the quantum metric

L Xiang, B Wang, Y Wei, Z Qiao, J Wang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Quantum metric and Berry curvature are the real part and imaginary part of the quantum
geometric tensor, respectively. The T-odd (T, time-reversal) nonlinear Hall effect driven by …