Geometric phase and spinorial representation of mixed state

DOI10.1016/j.physleta.2013.10.023zbMath1295.81083MaRDI QIDQ397760

Mohammad Hasan, H. S. Yoon

Publication date: 12 August 2014

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2013.10.023

zbMATH Keywords

density matrix; geometric phase; mixed state; Bloch sphere; Gauge invariants; symplectic area

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

51A50: Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces

81S22: Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence

81P16: Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts