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The geometric phase in quantum physics
Description
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
Availability note (English)
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.