Geometric phase for mixed states: a differential geometric approach

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DOI10.1140/EPJC/S2004-01814-5zbMATH Open1191.81123arXivquant-ph/0312146OpenAlexW2022743296WikidataQ115246609 ScholiaQ115246609MaRDI QIDQ982882FDOQ982882


Authors: J. Martínez Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 July 2010

Published in: The European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A new definition and interpretation of geometric phase for mixed state cyclic unitary evolution in quantum mechanics are presented. The pure state case is formulated in a framework involving three selected Principal Fibre Bundles, and the well known Kostant-Kirillov-Souriau symplectic structure on (co) adjoint orbits associated with Lie groups. It is shown that this framework generalises in a natural and simple manner to the mixed state case. For simplicity, only the case of rank two mixed state density matrices is considered in detail. The extensions of the ideas of Null Phase Curves and Pancharatnam lifts from pure to mixed states are also presented.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312146




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