Berry phases in electronic structure theory /

Vanderbilt, David.

Berry phases in electronic structure theory / David Vanderbilt (Rutgers University, New Jersey). - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. - ix, 384p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Invariance and quantization of charges and currents -- Review of electronic structure theory -- Berry phases and curvatures -- Electric polarization -- Topological insulators and semimetals -- Orbital magnetization and axion magnetoelectric coupling.

"Over the past 25 years, mathematical concepts associated with geometric phases have come to occupy a central place in our modern understanding of the physics of electrons in solids"--

9781107157651 (hardback)

2018018455


Electronic structure.
Geometric quantum phases.
Quantum electronics.
Electronics.

QC176.8.E4 / V36 2018

530.411 V28B



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