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The Berry phase and the phase of the determinant

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-17 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

In 1984 Michael Berry discovered that an isolated eigenstate of an adiabatically changing periodic Hamiltonian H(t)H(t) acquires a phase, called the Berry phase. We show that under very general assumptions the adiabatic approximation of the phase of the zeta-regularized determinant of the imaginary-time Schrodinger operator with periodic Hamiltonian is equal to the Berry phase.

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@article{arxiv.1310.6332,
  title  = {The Berry phase and the phase of the determinant},
  author = {Maxim Braverman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6332},
  year   = {2015}
}

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