The quantum geometric tensor unifies the Berry curvature (its imaginary part) and the quantum metric (its real part), yet Raman studies of chiral phonons have so far accessed only the former. We perform circularly polarized Raman spectroscopy on the quantum magnet ${\mathrm{K}}_2\mathrm{Co}({\mathrm{SeO}}_3{)}_2$, where the field-odd chiral splitting $\mathrm{\Delta }\omega$ and the field-even center shift $\delta {\omega }_c$ collapse onto a single curve across temperature and magnetic field, revealing a common microscopic origin for both observables. Since $\mathrm{\Delta }\omega$ reflects the Berry curvature, the concomitant even component $\delta {\omega }_c$, arising from the same microscopic origin, captures the field-induced change of the quantum metric—the diagonal Born-Oppenheimer correction. Across two resolvable $E_g$ modes, the unified data are well captured by a simple empirical relation, $\delta {\omega }_c=\gamma (\mathrm{\Delta }\omega {)}^2$. These results establish Raman spectroscopy as a direct probe of the quantum metric and an operational decomposition of quantum geometry within a single measurement.

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• Berry curvature
• Geometric & topological phases
• Topological effects in photonic systems
• Raman spectroscopy