Chern numbers, quaternions, and Berry's phases in Fermi systems

DOI10.1007/BF01218452zbMath0830.57020MaRDI QIDQ1812721

L. Sadun, Barry Simon, Jan Segert, Joseph E. Avron

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

HamiltoniansChern classesChern numbersFermi systemsadiabatic connectionadiabatic curvature and holonomybundles with self-dual or anti-self-dual curvatureseven under time reversalgeneralization of the Berry phase to bundleshalf-odd-integer spinquaternionic vector spacesspectrum of operator familysystems with \(\text{spin } J\) in a quadrupole electric field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Differential topology (57R99) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

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