Publications

Journal Articles

1. Min Yu, Xiangbei Li, Yaoming Chu, Bruno Mera, F Nur Ünal, Pengcheng Yang, Yu Liu, Nathan Goldman, Jianming Cai, "Experimental demonstration of topological bounds in quantum metrology". National Science Review, 2024;, nwae065.  DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwae065 

2. Bruno Mera and Tomoki Ozawa. "Singular connection approach to topological phases and resonant optical responses". Phys. Rev. B 106 (2022), 245134. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.245134 

3. Gabriel Matos, Bruno Mera, José M. Mourão, Paulo D. Mourão and João P. Nunes. "Laughlin states change under large geometry deformations and imaginary time Hamiltonian dynamics".  Commun. Math. Phys. 399, 2045-2070 (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s00220-022-04590-9 

4. Bruno Mera and Johannes Mitscherling. "Nontrivial quantum geometry of degenerate flat bands". Phys. Rev. B 106 (2022), 165133. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.165133 

5. Bruno Mera, Nikola Paunković, Syed Tahir Amin, Vítor R. Vieira. "Information geometry of quantum critical submanifolds: relevant, marginal and irrelevant operators".  Phys. Rev. B 106 (2022), 155101. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.155101 

6. Bruno Mera, Paulo Mateus and Alexandra M. Carvalho. "Model complexity in statistical manifolds: the role of curvature". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 5619-5636 (2022). DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2022.3176470 

7. Bruno Mera, Anwei Zhang and Nathan Goldman. "Relating the topology of Dirac Hamiltonians to quantum geometry: When the quantum metric dictates Chern numbers and winding numbers". SciPost Phys. 12, 018 (2022). DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.12.1.018 

8. Bruno Mera and Tomoki Ozawa. "Engineering geometrically flat Chern bands with Fubini-Study Kähler structure". Phys. Rev. B 104 (2021), 115160. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.115160 

9. Bruno Mera and Tomoki Ozawa. "Kähler geometry and Chern insulators: relations between topology and the quantum metric". Phys. Rev. B 104 (2021), 045104. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.045104 

10. Tomoki Ozawa and Bruno Mera. "Relations between topology and the quantum metric for Chern insulators". Phys. Rev. B 104 (2021), 045103. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.045103 

11. Hector Silva, Bruno Mera, Nikola Paunković. "Interferometric geometry from symmetry-broken Uhlmann gauge group and applications to topological phase transitions". Phys. Rev. B 103 (2021), 085127 . DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.085127

12. Bruno Mera. "The product of two independent Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains yields a two-dimensional Chern insulator". Phys. Rev. B 102 (2020), 155150. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.155150 

13. Bruno Mera. "Localization anisotropy and complex geometry in two-dimensional insulators." Physical Review B 101  (2020): 11518. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.115128

14. Serena Di Giorgio, Paulo Mateus and Bruno Mera. "Recoverability from direct quantum correlations." Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (2020). DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ab7a52

15. Syed Tahir Amin, Bruno Mera, Nikola Paunković and Vítor R Vieira.  "Information geometric analysis of long range topological superconductors." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 31.48 (2019): 485402. DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ab3c70

16. Bruno Mera, Krzysztof Sacha, and Yasser Omar. "Topologically protected quantization of work." Physical Review Letters 123.2 (2019): 020601. DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.020601.  Physics Synopsis: Dividing Work into Quantum Chunks

17. Bruno Mera. "Information geometry in the analysis of phase transitions." Acta Physica Polonica A Vol. 135. 6 (2019). DOI: 10.12693/aphyspola.135.1171 

18. Pedro D. Sacramento, Bruno Mera, and Nikola Paunković. "Vanishing k-space fidelity and phase diagram’s bulk–edge–bulk correspondence." Annals of Physics 401 (2019): 40-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2018.11.021 

19. Syed Tahir Amin, Bruno Mera, Chrysoula Vlachou, Nikola Paunković and Vítor R Vieira. "Fidelity and Uhlmann connection analysis of topological phase transitions in two dimensions." Physical Review B 98.24 (2018): 245141. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.245141 

20. Bruno Mera, Chrysoula Vlachou, Nikola Paunković , Vítor R Vieira and Oscar Viyuela. "Dynamical phase transitions at finite temperature from fidelity and interferometric Loschmidt echo induced metrics." Physical Review B 97.9 (2018): 094110. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.094110 

21. Bruno Mera, Chrysoula Vlachou, Nikola Paunković  and Vítor R Vieira. "Boltzmann–Gibbs states in topological quantum walks and associated many-body systems: fidelity and Uhlmann parallel transport analysis of phase transitions." Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 50.36 (2017): 365302. DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/aa820e 

22. Bruno Mera, Chrysoula Vlachou, Nikola Paunković  and Vítor R Vieira. "Uhlmann connection in fermionic systems undergoing phase transitions." Physical Review Letters 119.1 (2017): 015702. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.015702 

23. Bruno Mera, Miguel A. N. Araújo, Vítor R. Vieira. "Properties of some Hamiltonians describing topologically non-trivial fermionic systems", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 27, 465501 (2015).  DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/46/465501 

24. Bruno Mera, Vítor R. Vieira and Vitalii K. Dugaev. "Dynamics of magnetic moments coupled to electrons and lattice oscillations." Physical Review B 88.18 (2013): 184419. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.184419 

25. Yuri V. Vorobiev, Bruno Mera, Vítor R. Vieira, Paul P. Horley and Jesús González-Hernández."Weak and strong confinements in prismatic and cylindrical nanostructures." Nanoscale research letters 7.1 (2012): 1-6. DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-371

Preprints

1. Bruno Mera and Tomoki Ozawa. "Uniqueness of Landau levels and their analogs with higher Chern numbers". arXiv:2304.00866

2. Bruno Mera. "Topological response of gapped fermions to a U(1) gauge field." arXiv:1705.04394