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Off-diagonal quantum holonomy along density operators

Quantum Physics 2016-08-16 v2

Abstract

Uhlmann's concept of quantum holonomy for paths of density operators is generalised to the off-diagonal case providing insight into the geometry of state space when the Uhlmann holonomy is undefined. Comparison with previous off-diagonal geometric phase definitions is carried out and an example comprising the transport of a Bell-state mixture is given.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0403204,
  title  = {Off-diagonal quantum holonomy along density operators},
  author = {Stefan Filipp and Erik Sjöqvist},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0403204},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages, revised version with new example section