Structural chirality and electronic chirality in quantum materials

B Yan - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by
nonsuperimposable mirror images for a material such as DNA. In physics, however, chirality …

Quantum geometry in condensed matter

T Liu, XB Qiang, HZ Lu, XC **e - 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 …

Quantum-metric-induced nonlinear transport in a topological antiferromagnet

N Wang, D Kaplan, Z Zhang, T Holder, N Cao, A Wang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The Berry curvature and quantum metric are the imaginary part and real part, respectively, of
the quantum geometric tensor, which characterizes the topology of quantum states. The …

Quantum geometry induced nonlinear transport in altermagnets

Y Fang, J Cano, SAA Ghorashi - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Quantum geometry plays a pivotal role in the second-order response of PT-symmetric
antiferromagnets. Here we study the nonlinear response of 2D altermagnets protected by C …

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 …

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 …

An antiferromagnetic diode effect in even-layered MnBi2Te4

A Gao, SW Chen, B Ghosh, JX Qiu, YF Liu, Y Onishi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In ap–n junction, the separation of positive and negative charges leads to diode transport, in
which charge flows in only one direction. Non-centrosymmetric polar conductors are intrinsic …

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 …

General theory for longitudinal nonreciprocal charge transport

HJ Zhao, L Tao, Y Fu, L Bellaiche, Y Ma - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The longitudinal nonreciprocal charge transport (NCT) in crystalline materials is a highly
nontrivial phenomenon, motivating the design of next generation two-terminal rectification …