The multi-state geometry of shift current and polarization

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: The multi-state geometry of shift current and polarization
المؤلفون: Avdoshkin, Alexander, Mitscherling, Johannes, Moore, Joel E.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Quantum Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Quantum Physics
الوصف: The quantum metric and Berry curvature capture essential properties of non-trivial Bloch states and underpin many fascinating phenomena. However, it becomes increasingly evident that a more comprehensive understanding of quantum state geometry is necessary to explain properties involving Bloch states of multiple bands, such as optical transitions. To this end, we employ quantum state projectors to develop an explicitly gauge-invariant formalism and demonstrate its power with applications to non-linear optics and the theory of electronic polarization. We provide a simple expression for the shift current that resolves its precise relation to the moments of electronic polarization, clarifies the treatment of band degeneracies, and reveals its decomposition into the sum of the skewness of the occupied states and intrinsic multi-state geometry. The projector approach is applied to calculate non-linear optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) layers, using minimal tight-binding models previously calculated by ab initio methods. We close with comments on potential further applications of the projector operator approach to multi-state geometry.
Comment: 7+22 pages, 1+3 figures. Any comments are welcome!
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16358
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2409.16358
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv