Lindbladian Phase Geometry and Hall Transport in Open Bloch Systems
Abstract
Quantum geometry underlies a wide range of transport phenomena in Bloch systems. How quantum-geometric transport is modified when Bloch electrons are coupled to an environment, however, remains largely unexplored, even though the environment can alter both the electronic state and the physical current operator. Here we formulate dc linear response within a trace-preserving Lindblad kinetic theory by defining the physical velocity as the Liouvillian time derivative of the position operator. This construction reveals an environment-induced contribution to the current vertex whose momentum-space curl generates new Hall responses governed by the gauge-invariant phase geometry encoded by Lindblad jump amplitudes, which characterize electron-environment coupling. To leading order in the dissipative coupling, this geometry gives rise to interband shift-vector and diagonal-vorticity Hall responses arising from off-diagonal and diagonal jump amplitudes, respectively. Remarkably, both mechanisms can produce a finite Hall conductivity even when the conventional Berry-curvature anomalous Hall effect vanishes identically. Our work establishes Lindbladian phase geometry as an independent geometric origin of transverse transport in open quantum matter.
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BibTeX
@misc{jiang2026lindbladian,
title = {{Lindbladian Phase Geometry and Hall Transport in Open Bloch Systems}},
author = {Zhihao Jiang and Longjun Xiang and Jian Wang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.07228},
eprint = {2609.07228},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07228},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Lindbladian Phase Geometry and Hall Transport in Open Bloch Systems
AU - Zhihao Jiang
AU - Longjun Xiang
AU - Jian Wang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/07
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.07228
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07228
AB - Quantum geometry underlies a wide range of transport phenomena in Bloch systems. How quantum-geometric transport is modified when Bloch electrons are coupled to an environment, however, remains largely unexplored, even though the environment can alter both the electronic state and the physical current operator. Here we formulate dc linear response within a trace-preserving Lindblad kinetic theory by defining the physical velocity as the Liouvillian time derivative of the position operator. This construction reveals an environment-induced contribution to the current vertex whose momentum-space curl generates new Hall responses governed by the gauge-invariant phase geometry encoded by Lindblad jump amplitudes, which characterize electron-environment coupling. To leading order in the dissipative coupling, this geometry gives rise to interband shift-vector and diagonal-vorticity Hall responses arising from off-diagonal and diagonal jump amplitudes, respectively. Remarkably, both mechanisms can produce a finite Hall conductivity even when the conventional Berry-curvature anomalous Hall effect vanishes identically. Our work establishes Lindbladian phase geometry as an independent geometric origin of transverse transport in open quantum matter.
ER -