Photocurrent as a multiphysics diagnostic of quantum materials

Q Ma, R Krishna Kumar, SY Xu, FHL Koppens… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The photoexcitation life cycle from incident photon (and creation of photoexcited electron–
hole pair) to ultimate extraction of electrical current is a complex multiphysics process …

Nonreciprocal transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials

N Nagaosa, Y Yanase - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In noncentrosymmetric materials, the responses (for example, electrical and optical)
generally depend on the direction of the external stimuli, called nonreciprocal phenomena …

Quantum metric nonlinear Hall effect in a topological antiferromagnetic heterostructure

A Gao, YF Liu, JX Qiu, B Ghosh, T V. Trevisan, Y Onishi… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Quantum geometry in condensed-matter physics has two components: the real part quantum
metric and the imaginary part Berry curvature. Whereas the effects of Berry curvature have …

Essay: Where can quantum geometry lead us?

P Törmä - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Quantum geometry defines the phase and amplitude distances between quantum states.
The phase distance is characterized by the Berry curvature and thus relates to topological …

Nonlinear physics of moiré superlattices

L Du, Z Huang, J Zhang, F Ye, Q Dai, H Deng… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Nonlinear physics is one of the most important research fields in modern physics and
materials science. It offers an unprecedented paradigm for exploring many fascinating …

Ultrafast terahertz emission from emerging symmetry-broken materials

J Pettine, P Padmanabhan, N Sirica… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical spectroscopies are powerful tools for investigating both static material
properties and light-induced dynamics. Terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy has …

A tunable room-temperature nonlinear Hall effect in elemental bismuth thin films

P Makushko, S Kovalev, Y Zabila, I Ilyakov… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The nonlinear Hall effect with time-reversal symmetry is a second-order electronic transport
phenomenon—seen as a quadratic voltage transverse to an applied electric field—that …

Berry curvature dipole generation and helicity-to-spin conversion at symmetry-mismatched heterointerfaces

S Duan, F Qin, P Chen, X Yang, C Qiu, J Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The Berry curvature dipole (BCD) is a key parameter that describes the geometric nature of
energy bands in solids. It defines the dipole-like distribution of Berry curvature in the band …

Giant room-temperature nonlinearities in a monolayer Janus topological semiconductor

J Shi, H Xu, C Heide, C HuangFu, C **a… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical materials possess wide applications, ranging from terahertz and mid-
infrared detection to energy harvesting. Recently, the correlations between nonlinear optical …

Chirality manipulation of ultrafast phase switches in a correlated CDW-Weyl semimetal

B Cheng, D Cheng, T Jiang, W **a, B Song… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Light engineering of correlated states in topological materials provides a new avenue of
achieving exotic topological phases inaccessible by conventional tuning methods. Here we …