Non-Abelian Quantum Geometric Tensor in Degenerate Topological Semimetals

The quantum geometric tensor characterizes the complete geometric properties of quantum states, with the symmetric part being the quantum metric and the antisymmetric part being the Berry curvature. We propose a generic Hamiltonian with globally degenerate ground states and give a general relation between the corresponding non-Abelian quantum metric and unit Bloch vector. This enables us to construct the relation between the non-Abelian quantum metric and Berry or Euler curvature. To be concrete, we present and study two topological semimetal models with globally degenerate bands under CP and C2T symmetries. The topological invariants of these two degenerate topological semimetals are the Chern number and Euler class, respectively, which are calculated from the non-Abelian quantum metric with our constructed relations. Based on the adiabatic perturbation theory, we further obtain the relation between the non-Abelian quantum metric and the energy fluctuation. Such a nonadiabatic effect can be used to extract the non-Abelian quantum metric, which is numerically demonstrated for the two models of degenerate topological semimetals. Finally, we discuss the quantum simulation of the model Hamiltonians with cold atoms.