24–27 Aug 2026
Paul Scherrer Institut
Europe/Zurich timezone

Nonperturbative Nonlinear Hall Effect in Nonequilibrium Steady States

27 Aug 2026, 09:35
20m
Auditorium (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Auditorium

Paul Scherrer Institut

Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland
Contributed Talk

Speaker

Lei Geng (University of Fribourg)

Description

The nonlinear Hall effect in quantum materials has attracted broad interest; yet most existing studies focus on the weak-field, perturbative regime.
Here we develop a nonperturbative approach based on nonequilibrium steady-state Green's functions for dc-field-driven lattice systems, with dissipation and interactions incorporated through self-energies beyond the constant relaxation-time approximation and interband transitions treated alongside their intraband counterparts.
Applied to a two-band semimetal model, our approach provides direct access to the strong-field Hall response beyond the nonperturbative crossover where the edge of the nonequilibrium distribution reaches Berry-curvature hot spots, a regime in which constant relaxation-time estimates and Berry curvature dipole calculations become unreliable.
We further demonstrate that interaction and electron-phonon self-energies within dynamical mean-field theory can substantially enhance the Hall signal.
Our framework enables quantitative simulations of nonequilibrium nonlinear Hall phenomena and provides guidance for strong-field transport experiments.

Authors

Lei Geng (University of Fribourg) Martin Eckstein (University of Hamburg) Philipp Werner (University of Fribourg)

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