The canonical connection in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1063/1.531432zbMATH Open0862.58057arXivhep-th/9504116OpenAlexW1974353716MaRDI QIDQ5284402FDOQ5284402

David McMullan, Izumi Tsutsui, Péter Lévay

Publication date: 25 May 1997

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

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the form of induced gauge fields that arises in two types of quantum systems. In the first we consider quantum mechanics on coset spaces G/H, and argue that G-invariance is central to the emergence of the H-connection as induced gauge fields in the different quantum sectors. We then demonstrate why the same connection, now giving rise to the non-abelian generalization of Berry's phase, can also be found in systems which have slow variables taking values in such a coset space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504116

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsgauge fieldscanonical connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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