The canonical connection in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1063/1.531432MaRDI QIDQ5284402zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Péter Lévay, David McMullan, Izumi Tsutsui

Publication date 25 May 1997

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

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

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)

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.

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