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The geometric phase in quantum physics

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After an explanatory introduction, a quantum system in a classical time-dependent environment is discussed; an example is a magnetic moment in a classical magnetic field. At first, the general abelian case is discussed in the adiabatic approximation. Then the geometric phase for nonadiabatic change of the environment (Anandan--Aharonov phase) is introduced, and after that general cyclic (nonadiabatic) evolution is discussed. The mathematics of fiber bundles is introduced, and some of its results are used to describe the relation between the adiabatic Berry phase and the geometric phase for general cyclic evolution of a pure state. The discussion is restricted to the abelian, U(1) phase

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; OSTI as DE93011121; NTIS; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
64 p.
Report number
DOE/ER/40757--004

Conference

Title
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-ASI meeting on recent problems in mathematical physics.
Dates
Jun 1992.
Place
Salamanca (Spain).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
24073126
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ADIABATIC APPROXIMATION; HAMILTONIANS; LECTURES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REVIEWS
Descriptors DEC
DOCUMENT TYPES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MECHANICS; QUANTUM OPERATORS

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract FG03-93ER40757
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).
Secondary number(s)
CONF-9206360--1.