A new kind of geometric phases in open quantum systems and higher gauge theory

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/36/365301zbMATH Open1244.81030arXiv1101.2852OpenAlexW3100298569MaRDI QIDQ3173034FDOQ3173034

David Viennot, José Lages

Publication date: 10 October 2011

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A new approach extending the concept of geometric phases to adiabatic open quantum systems described by density matrices (mixed states) is proposed. This new approach is based on an analogy between open quantum systems and dissipative quantum systems which uses a $C^{*}$-module structure. The gauge theory associated with these new geometric phases does not take place in an usual principal bundle structure but in an higher structure, a categorical principal bundle (so-called principal 2-bundle or non-abelian bundle gerbes) which is sometimes a non-abelian twisted bundle. This higher degree in the gauge theory is a geometrical manifestation of the decoherence induced by the environment on the quantum system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2852

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zbMATH Keywords

open quantum systemBerry phasegeometric phasedissipative quantum system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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