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Berry phases occur when a system adiabatically evolves along a closed curve in parameter space. This tutorial-like article focuses on Berry phases accumulated in real space. In particular, we consider the situation where an electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-06 Karin Everschor-Sitte , Matthias Sitte

We develop a theoretical description of non-Hermitian time evolution that accounts for the break- down of the adiabatic theorem. We obtain closed-form expressions for the time-dependent state amplitudes, involving the complex eigen-energies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Hailong Wang , Li-Jun Lang , Y. D. Chong

Berry's phase may be viewed as arising from the parallel transport of a quantal state around a loop in parameter space. In this Letter, the classical limit of this transport is obtained for a particular class of chaotic systems. It is shown…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 Christopher Jarzynski

We investigate quantum phase transitions, quantum criticality, and Berry phase for the ground state of an ensemble of non-interacting two-level atoms embedded in a non-linear optical medium, coupled to a single-mode quantized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 C. A. Estrada Guerra , J. Mahecha-Gómez , J. G. Hirsch

A $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric, non-Hermitian Hamiltonian in the $\mathcal{PT}$-unbroken regime can lead to unitary dynamics under the appropriate choice of the Hilbert space. The Hilbert space is determined by a Hamiltonian-compatible inner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Himanshu Badhani , Subhashish Banerjee , C. M. Chandrashekar

Phases arising from cyclic processes are fundamental in physics, bridging quantum and classical domains and providing deeper insights into the topology and dynamics of physical systems. This study investigates the accumulation of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kazi T. Mahmood , M. Arif Hasan

We construct PT-symmetric quantum mechanical models with an O(N)-symmetric interaction term of the form $-g(\vec{x}^{2})^{2}/N$. Using functional integral methods, we find the equivalent Hermitian model, which has several unusual features.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-07-12 Peter N. Meisinger , Michael C. Ogilvie

We present a phase space study of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry based on the Wigner distribution function. For an arbitrary complex potential, we derive a generalized continuity equation for the Wigner function flow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Ludmila Praxmeyer , Popo Yang , Ray-Kuang Lee

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

Adiabatic processes driven by non-Hermitian, time-dependent Hamiltonians may be sped up by generalizing inverse engineering techniques based on Berry's transitionless driving algorithm or on dynamical invariants. We work out the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 S. Ibáñez , S. Martínez-Garaot , Xi Chen , E. Torrontegui , J. G. Muga

Parity-Time (PT) symmetric quantum mechanics is a complex extension of conventional Hermitian quantum mechanics in which physical observables possess a real eigenvalue spectrum. However, an experimental demonstration of the true quantum…

Within the framework of exact quantum electrodynamics in dielectric, we study the topological Berry phase of a classically pumped $\Lambda$-type three-level atom, prepared initially in a superposition of its two pumped levels and located…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-05 M. S. Ateto

The relationship between quantum phase transition and complex geometric phase for open quantum system governed by the non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonian with the accidental crossing of the eigenvalues is established. In particular, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander I. Nesterov , S. G. Ovchinnikov

We study the geometric phase for the ground state of a generalized one-dimensional non-Hermitian quantum XY model, which has transverse-field-dependent intrinsic rotation-time reversal symmetry. Based on the exact solution, this model is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

Geometric quantum computation is the idea that geometric phases can be used to implement quantum gates, i.e., the basic elements of the Boolean network that forms a quantum computer. Although originally thought to be limited to adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-16 Erik Sjöqvist , Vahid Azimi Mousolou , Carlo M. Canali

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

Smooth composite bundles provide the adequate geometric description of classical mechanics with time-dependent parameters. We show that the Berry's phase phenomenon is described in terms of connections on composite Hilbert space bundles.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Sardanashvily

In quantum mechanics, a quantum wavepacket may acquire a geometrical phase as it evolves along a cyclic trajectory in parameter space. In condensed matter systems, the Berry phase plays a crucial role in fundamental phenomena such as the…

We introduce the perturbative aspects of noncommutative quantum mechanics. Then we study the Berry's phase in the framework of noncommutative quantum mechanics. The results show deviations from the usual quantum mechanics which depend on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Alavi

The geometric properties of quantum states is fully encoded by the quantum geometric tensor. The real and imaginary parts of the quantum geometric tensor are the quantum metric and Berry curvature, which characterize the distance and phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Jun-Feng Ren , Jing Li , Hai-Tao Ding , Dan-Wei Zhang