Non-abelian generalization of off-diagonal geometric phases

DOI10.1209/0295-5075/78/60004zbMATH Open1244.81029arXivquant-ph/0612164OpenAlexW2086032725MaRDI QIDQ2903669FDOQ2903669

Authors: David Kult, Johan Åberg, Erik Sjöqvist 

Publication date: 11 August 2012

Published in: Europhysics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If a quantum system evolves in a noncyclic fashion the corresponding geometric phase or holonomy may not be fully defined. Off-diagonal geometric phases have been developed to deal with such cases. Here, we generalize these phases to the non-Abelian case, by introducing off-diagonal holonomies that involve evolution of more than one subspace of the underlying Hilbert space. Physical realizations of the off-diagonal holonomies in adiabatic evolution and interferometry are put forward.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0612164

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zbMATH Keywords

non-abelian quantum systemsoff-diagonal geometric phases

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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