Berry-Curvature Effect in Anomalous Transport

This work provides an alternative derivation of how Berry phase effects cause anomalous transport in materials like altermagnets and noncentrosymmetric metals, using a quasiclassical matrix kinetic equation. It successfully derives not only the anomalous Hall effect but also anomalous heat flow and thermalelectric currents driven by temperature or chemical potential gradients. This method connects the Berry curvature to measurable transport phenomena.

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