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Geometric phases have been extensively investigated in a wide range of quantum systems, often revealing deep connections to the underlying topology of many-body states. In this work, we examine two geometric phases defined for mixed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Chiragkumar R. Vasani , Erik Sjöqvist

The concept of quantum phase transitions (QPT) plays a central role in the description of condensed matter systems. In this contribution, we perform high-quality wavefunction-based simulations to demonstrate the existence of a quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Tobias Serwatka , Roger G. Melko , Anton Burkov , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

By viewing entanglement as a state function, a new kind of phase transition takes place: the geometric phase transition. This phenomenon occurs due to singularities in the shape of the entangled states set. It is shown how this result can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Cavalcanti , Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Marcelo O. Terra Cunha

Time-dependent $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics is featured by a varying inner-product metric and has stimulated a number of interesting studies beyond conventional quantum mechanics. In this paper, we explore geometric aspects of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Da-Jian Zhang , Qing-hai Wang , Jiangbin Gong

Quantum mechanics is among the most important and successful mathematical model for describing our physical reality. The traditional formulation of quantum mechanics is linear and algebraic. In contrast classical mechanics is a geometrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Hoshang Heydari

Based on the adiabatic geometric phase concerning with density matrix[1] , we extend it to the sub-geometric phase in the non-adiabatic case. It is found that whatever the real part or imaginary part of the sub-geometric phase can play an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Zheng-Chuan Wang

Examples of geometric phases abound in many areas of physics. They offer both fundamental insights into many physical phenomena and lead to interesting practical implementations. One of them, as indicated recently, might be an inherently…

The Landau paradigm is a central dogma for understanding phase and phase transitions in condensed matter systems, yet for decades it has been known that a variety of quantum phases exist beyond the framework. Is there a more general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Xie Chen

Practical implementations of quantum computing are always done in the presence of decoherence. Geometric phase is useful in the context of quantum computing as a tool to achieve fault tolerance. Recent experimental progresses on coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-03 Sun Yin , D. M. Tong

When quantum mechanical qubits as elements of two dimensional complex Hilbert space are generalized to elements of even subalgebra of geometric algebra over three dimensional Euclidian space, geometrically formal complex plane becomes…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Alexander Soiguine

This review is focused on various properties of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in the Interacting Boson Model (IBM) of nuclear structure. The model in its infinite-size limit exhibits shape-phase transitions between spherical, deformed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Pavel Cejnar , Jan Jolie

The geometric phase is of fundamental interest and plays an important role in quantum information processing. However, the definition and calculation of this phase for open systems remains a problem due to the lack of agreement on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Shi-Biao Zheng

An operator generalisation of the notion of geometric phase has been recently proposed purely based on physical grounds. Here we provide a mathematical foundation for its existence, while uncovering new geometrical structures in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Vivek M. Vyas

Geometric phases play a crucial role in diverse fields. In chemistry they appear when a reaction path encircles an intersection between adiabatic potential energy surfaces and the molecular wavefunction experiences quantum-mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Rocco Martinazzo , Irene Burghardt

This thesis, explores the quantum entanglement and evolution through both a geometric and dynamical perspective. The first part focuses on classical phase space and its central role in Hamiltonian mechanics, emphasizing the importance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Jamal Elfakir

Geometric phase, associated with holonomy transformation in quantum state space, is an important quantum-mechanical effect. Besides fundamental interest, this effect has practical applications, among which geometric quantum computation is a…

We study the quantum phases of anisotropic XY spin chain system in presence and absence of adiabatic quench. A connection between geometric phase and criticality is established from the dynamical behaviour of the geometric phase for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Sujit Sarkar , B. Basu

A general formalism of the relation between geometric phases produced by circularly evolving interacting spin systems and their criticality behavior is presented. This opens up the way for the use of geometric phases as a tool to study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jiannis K. Pachos , Angelo C. M. Carollo

In this article, we provide theoretical support for the use of geometric measures of nonclassicality as a general tool to identify quantum phase transitions. We argue that divergences in the susceptibility of any geometric measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Kok Chuan Tan

The phenomenon of quantum entanglement is thoroughly investigated, focussing especially on geometrical aspects and on bipartite systems. After introducing the formalism and discussing general aspects, some of the most important separability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Andreas Gabriel