Figure 1 | Working principle of the phase measurement. (IMAGE)

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Figure 1 | Working principle of the phase measurement.

Caption

A particle driven across a Brillouin zone accumulates a geometric phase, which determines the position of the Wannier function in a unit cell. The energy splitting in electric fields reflects the geometric phases.

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by Ruosong Mao, Xingqi Xu, Jiefei Wang, Chenran Xu, Gewei Qian, Han Cai, Shi-Yao Zhu & Da-Wei Wang

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