Berry Phase in Atom-Molecule Conversion Systems and Fractional Monopole
Quantum Gases
2015-05-13 v1
Abstract
We investigate the geometric phase or Berry phase of adiabatic quantum evolution in an atom-molecule conversion system, and find that the Berry phase in such system consists of two parts: the usual Berry connection term and a novel term from the nonlinearity brought forth by the atom-molecule conversion. The geometric phase can be viewed as the flux of the magnetic field of a monopole through the surface enclosed by a closed path in parameter space. The charge of the monopole, however, is found to be one third of the elementary charge of the usual quantized monopole.
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@article{arxiv.0906.3081,
title = {Berry Phase in Atom-Molecule Conversion Systems and Fractional Monopole},
author = {Li-Bin Fu and Jie Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3081},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure