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 …

Intrinsic nonlinear conductivities induced by the quantum metric

K Das, S Lahiri, RB Atencia, D Culcer, A Agarwal - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Three mechanisms are known to contribute to second-order nonlinear current: Extrinsic
nonlinear Drude, Berry curvature dipole, and intrinsic Berry connection polarizability. Here …

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 …

Dominance of Extrinsic Scattering Mechanisms in the Orbital Hall Effect: Graphene, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, and Topological Antiferromagnets

H Liu, D Culcer - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The theory of the orbital Hall effect (OHE), a transverse flow of orbital angular momentum
(OAM) in response to an electric field, has concentrated on intrinsic mechanisms. Here …

Nonlinear magnetoconductivity in Weyl and multi-Weyl semimetals in quantizing magnetic field

S Das, K Das, A Agarwal - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Magnetotransport and magneto-optics experiments offer a very powerful probe for studying
the physical properties of materials. Here, we investigate the second-order nonlinear …

Determination of spin-orbit interaction in semiconductor nanostructures via nonlinear transport

RMA Dantas, HF Legg, S Bosco, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We investigate nonlinear transport signatures stemming from linear and cubic spin-orbit
interactions in one-and two-dimensional systems. The analytical zero-temperature response …

Orbital angular momentum of Bloch electrons: equilibrium formulation, magneto-electric phenomena, and the orbital Hall effect

R Burgos Atencia, A Agarwal, D Culcer - Advances in Physics: X, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The investigation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of delocalised Bloch electrons has
advanced our understanding of magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena in crystals …

Quantum kinetic theory of nonlinear optical currents: Finite Fermi surface and Fermi sea contributions

P Bhalla, K Das, A Agarwal, D Culcer - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The quantum kinetic framework provides a versatile method for investigating the dynamical
optical and transport currents of crystalline solids. In this paper, starting from the density …

[PDF][PDF] Intrinsic nonlinear conductivity induced by the quantum metric dipole

S Lahiri, K Das, D Culcer, A Agarwal - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - academia.edu
The nonlinear current to second-order in the electric field is known to originate from three
different physical mechanisms: extrinsic i) nonlinear Drude and ii) Berry curvature dipole …

Covariant derivatives of Berry-type quantities: Application to nonlinear transport

X Liu, SS Tsirkin, I Souza - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.10129, 2023 - arxiv.org
The derivatives of the Berry curvature $\Omega $ and intrinsic orbital magnetic moment m in
momentum space are relevant to various problems, including the nonlinear anomalous Hall …