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Monopole and Berry Phase in Momentum Space in Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v3 Condensed Matter

Abstract

To build genuine generators of the rotations group in noncommutative quantum mechanics, we show that it is necessary to extend the noncommutative parameter θ\theta to a field operator, which one proves to be only momentum dependent. We find consequently that this field must be obligatorily a dual Dirac monopole in momentum space. Recent experiments in the context of the anomalous Hall effect provide for a monopole in the crystal momentum space. We suggest a connection between the noncommutative field and the Berry curvature in momentum space which is at the origine of the anomalous Hall effect.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0310167,
  title  = {Monopole and Berry Phase in Momentum Space in Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics},
  author = {Alain Berard and Herve Mohrbach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0310167},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages