Measuring the Aharonov-Anandan phase in photonics
Optics
2016-05-04 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
The Aharonov-Anandan phase is a description of the geometric nature in non-adiabatic cyclic evolutions of quantum states. Here we report on a measurement of the Aharonov-Anandan phase in photonics. We consider a time-independent quantum driven harmonic oscillator that is initially prepared at the vacuum state. We utilize evanescently coupled waveguides to realize this physical model and achieve a measurement of the Aharonov-Anandan phase via integrated interferometry.
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@article{arxiv.1510.08601,
title = {Measuring the Aharonov-Anandan phase in photonics},
author = {Kai Wang and Steffen Weimann and Armando Perez-Leija and Alexander Szameit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.08601},
year = {2016}
}