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Comment on "Geometric Phases for Mixed States in Interferometry"

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v2 Condensed Matter math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We find for the unitary evolution of spin-1/2 systems that the "purely mathematical mixed state holonomy of Uhlmann limitedly agrees, in the case of evolution over geodesic spherical triangles, with the holonomy "in the experimental context of quantum interferometry" recently proposed by Sjoqvist, Pati, Ekert, Anandan, Ericsson, Oi and Vedral (Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 [2000], 2845-2848).

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0111013,
  title  = {Comment on "Geometric Phases for Mixed States in Interferometry"},
  author = {Paul B. Slater},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0111013},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

this paper has been supplanted by math-ph/0111041, "Mixed State Holonomies", considerable material having been added there