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Considerations about the Aharonov-Anandan Phase for Time Independent Hamiltonians

Quantum Physics 2009-02-19 v3

Abstract

We present a method for calculating the Aharonov-Anandan phase for time-independent Hamiltonians that avoids the calculation of evolution operators. We compare the generic method used to calculate the Aharonov-Anandan phase with the method proposed here through four examples; a spin-1/2 particle in a constant magnetic field, an arbitrary infinite-sized Hamiltonian with two known eigenvalues, a Fabry-Perot cavity with one movable mirror and a three mirrors cavity with a slightly transmissive movable middle mirror.

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@article{arxiv.0810.0309,
  title  = {Considerations about the Aharonov-Anandan Phase for Time Independent Hamiltonians},
  author = {P. -L. Giscard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0309},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages Typos are corrected, part III.b. uses now only one gauge change. Submitted to PRA