Published February 20, 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Geometric phase effects for wave-packet revivals

Creators

  • 1. Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 (United States)

Description

The study of wave-packet revivals is extended to the case of Hamiltonians which are made time dependent through the adiabatic cycling of some parameters. It is shown that the quantal geometric phase (Berry's phase) causes the revived packet to be displaced along the classical trajectory by an amount equal to the classical geometric phase (Hannay's angle), in one degree of freedom. A physical example illustrating this effect in three degrees of freedom is mentioned

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 1264-1267.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
26048133
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
DEGREES OF FREEDOM; HAMILTONIANS; PHASE STUDIES; TIME DEPENDENCE; TRAJECTORIES; WAVE PACKETS
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM OPERATORS