We analyse a recently reported neutron interference experiment to measure a geometric phase and attempt to bring out the inadequacy of the ``phase modulo 2\pi" approach to the geometric phase. A modified neutron interferometer experiment to observe 2n\pi phase changes of topological origin resulting from closed circuits around singularities in the parameter space of the experiment is proposed.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0103134,
title = {Comment on ``Experimental Separation of Geometric and Dynamical Phases Using Neutron Interferometry"},
author = {Rajendra Bhandari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0103134},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Latex 6 pages;1 postscript figure; originally submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett.; at present forms part of a pending proposal for a neutron interferometer experiment; note added