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Geometric phase for non-Hermitian Hamiltonian evolution as anholonomy of a parallel transport along a curve

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-13 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We develop a new interpretation of the geometric phase in evolution with a non-Hermitian real value Hamiltonian by relating it to the angle developed during the parallel transport along a closed curve by a unit vector triad in the 3D-Minkovsky space. We also show that this geometric phase is responsible for the anholonomy effects in stochastic processes considered in [N. A. Sinitsyn and I. Nemenman, EPL {\bf 77}, 58001 (2007)], and use it to derive the stochastic system response to periodic parameter variations.

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@article{arxiv.0807.3121,
  title  = {Geometric phase for non-Hermitian Hamiltonian evolution as anholonomy of a parallel transport along a curve},
  author = {N. A. Sinitsyn and Avadh Saxena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3121},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages 2 figures