Berry phases in electronic structure theory /
David Vanderbilt (Rutgers University, New Jersey).
- x,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"--