Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2747–2750 (1989)Berry’s phase for energy bands in solidsReceived 28 December 1988; published in the issue dated 5 June 1989 Berry’s phase is defined for the dynamics of electrons in periodic solids and an explicit formula is derived for it. Because of the special torus topology of the Brillouin zone a nonzero Berry phase is shown to exist in a one-dimensional parameter space. Symmetry of the Bloch functions in the Brillouin zone leads to the quantization of Berry’s phase. A connection is established between the latter and the Wyckoff positions in the crystal in the framework of band representations of space groups. Berry’s phase can therefore be used for labeling energy bands in solids. © 1989 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.2747
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.2747
PACS:
71.25.-s, 03.65.Bz, 61.50.Em
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