Rashba-like physics in condensed matter

G Bihlmayer, P Noël, DV Vyalikh, EV Chulkov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling induces a unique form of Zeeman interaction in momentum space in
materials that lack inversion symmetry: the electron's spin is locked on an effective magnetic …

Nonlinear hall effects

ZZ Du, HZ Lu, XC **e - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The Hall effects comprise one of the oldest but most vital fields in condensed matter physics,
and they persistently inspire new findings, such as quantum Hall effects and topological …

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 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 …

Wannier90 as a community code: new features and applications

G Pizzi, V Vitale, R Arita, S Blügel… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
W annier90 is an open-source computer program for calculating maximally-localised
Wannier functions (MLWFs) from a set of Bloch states. It is interfaced to many widely used …

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 …

Engineering symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials

L Du, T Hasan, A Castellanos-Gomez, GB Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials plays a significant role in their macroscopic
electrical, optical, magnetic and topological properties, including, but not limited to, spin …

Gate-tuneable and chirality-dependent charge-to-spin conversion in tellurium nanowires

F Calavalle, M Suárez-Rodríguez, B Martín-García… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral materials are an ideal playground for exploring the relation between symmetry,
relativistic effects and electronic transport. For instance, chiral organic molecules have been …

Berry curvature dipole senses topological transition in a moiré superlattice

S Sinha, PC Adak, A Chakraborty, K Das, K Debnath… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Topological aspects of the electron wave function—including the Berry curvature and Chern
number—play a crucial role in determining the physical properties of materials. Although the …

Nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in few-layer WTe2

K Kang, T Li, E Sohn, J Shan, KF Mak - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
The Hall effect occurs only in systems with broken time-reversal symmetry, such as materials
under an external magnetic field in the ordinary Hall effect and magnetic materials in the …