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SUBMITTER: Xue F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8201411 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xue Fei F Amin Vivek V Haney Paul M PM
Physical review. B 20200101 16
The topological properties of a material's electronic structure are encoded in its Berry curvature, a quantity which is intimately related to the transverse electrical conductivity. In transition metal dichalcogenides with broken inversion symmetry, the nonzero Berry curvature results in a valley Hall effect. In this paper we identify a previously unrecognized consequence of Berry curvature in these materials: an electric field-induced change in the electrons' charge density orientation. We use ...[more]