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A note on the geometric phase in adiabatic approximation

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v4

Abstract

The adiabatic theorem shows that the instantaneous eigenstate is a good approximation of the exact solution for a quantum system in adiabatic evolution. One may therefore expect that the geometric phase calculated by using the eigenstate should be also a good approximation of exact geometric phase. However, we find that the former phase may differ appreciably from the latter if the evolution time is large enough.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0406163,
  title  = {A note on the geometric phase in adiabatic approximation},
  author = {D. M. Tong and K. Singh and L. C. Kwek and C. H. Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0406163},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, no figure, modified and Journal-ref added