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Hauptverfasser: Porlles, David, Chen, Wei
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15853
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author Porlles, David
Chen, Wei
author_facet Porlles, David
Chen, Wei
contents The quantum geometric properties of typical diamond-type (C, Si, Ge) and zincblende-type (GaAs, InP, etc) semiconductors are investigated by means of the $sp^{3}s^{\ast}$ tight-binding model, which allows to calculate the quantum metric of the valence band states throughout the entire Brillouin zone. The global maximum of the metric is at the $Γ$ point, but other differential geometric properties like Ricci scalar, Ricci tensor, and Einstein tensor are found to vary significantly in the momentum space, indicating a highly distorted momentum space manifold. The momentum integration of the quantum metric further yields the gauge-invariant part of the spread of valence band Wannier function, whose value agrees well with that experimentally extracted from an optical sum rule of the dielectric function. Furthermore, the dependence of these geometric properties on the energy gap offers a way to quantify the quantum criticality of these common semiconductors.
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spellingShingle Quantum geometry of common semiconductors
Porlles, David
Chen, Wei
Strongly Correlated Electrons
The quantum geometric properties of typical diamond-type (C, Si, Ge) and zincblende-type (GaAs, InP, etc) semiconductors are investigated by means of the $sp^{3}s^{\ast}$ tight-binding model, which allows to calculate the quantum metric of the valence band states throughout the entire Brillouin zone. The global maximum of the metric is at the $Γ$ point, but other differential geometric properties like Ricci scalar, Ricci tensor, and Einstein tensor are found to vary significantly in the momentum space, indicating a highly distorted momentum space manifold. The momentum integration of the quantum metric further yields the gauge-invariant part of the spread of valence band Wannier function, whose value agrees well with that experimentally extracted from an optical sum rule of the dielectric function. Furthermore, the dependence of these geometric properties on the energy gap offers a way to quantify the quantum criticality of these common semiconductors.
title Quantum geometry of common semiconductors
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15853