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Our understanding of quantum field theory rests largely on explicit and controlled calculations in perturbation theory. Because of this, much recent effort has been devoted to improve our grasp of perturbative techniques on cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Aaron Hillman , Enrico Pajer

We study the cosmological evolution of a D3-brane universe in a type 0 string background. We follow the brane-universe along the radial coordinate of the background and we calculate the energy density which is induced on the brane because…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Papantonopoulos

We present a general theoretical framework for the exact treatment of a hybrid system that is composed of a quantum subsystem and a classical subsystem. When the quantum subsystem is dynamically fast and the classical subsystem is slow, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Qi Zhang , Biao Wu

The Berry phase, a fundamental geometric phase in quantum systems, has become a crucial tool for probing the topological properties of materials. Quantum oscillations, such as Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations, are widely used to extract…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Bogdan M. Fominykh , Valentin Yu. Irkhin , Vyacheslav V. Marchenkov

Berry phase plays an important role in determining many physical properties of quantum systems. However, a Berry phase altering energy spectrum of a quantum system is comparatively rare. Here, we report an unusual tunable valley polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Ya-Ning Ren , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

Despite their apparent simplicity, coupled oscillators exhibit surprisingly complex phenomena. Two notable examples are Berry phase (a geometric or topological aspect of the oscillators' memory) and non-Hermiticity (the often…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 J. R. Lane , C. Guria , J. Höller , T. D. Montalvo , Y. S. S. Patil , J. G. E. Harris

Understanding the behavior of the universe at large depends critically on insights about the smallest units of matter and their fundamental interactions. Inflationary cosmology is a highly successful framework for exploring these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alan H. Guth , David I. Kaiser

We have observed the Berry phase effect associated with interband coherence in topological surface states (TSSs) using two-color high-harmonic spectroscopy. This Berry phase accumulates along the evolution path of strong field-driven…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-10 Ya Bai , Yang Jiang , Wenyang Zheng , Jiayin Chen , Shuo Wang , Candong Liu , Ruxin Li , Peng Liu

Geometric phases are foundational to isolated quantum systems, yet their thermodynamic role in open systems remains unrevealed Developing a dissipative adiabatic perturbation expansion, we discover a Berry-phase-induced chiral work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Zhaoyu Fei , Yu-Han Ma

A continuous process of creation of particles is investigated as a possible connection between the inflationary stage with late cosmic acceleration. In this model, the inflationary era occurs due to a continuous and fast process of creation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Rafael C. Nunes

We propose a new formula for the adiabatic Berry phase which is based on phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics. This approach sheds a new light into the correspondence between classical and quantum adiabatic phases -- both phases are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dariusz Chruscinski

We unveil the existence of a non-trivial Berry phase associated to the dynamics of a quantum particle in a one dimensional box with moving walls. It is shown that a suitable choice of boundary conditions has to be made in order to preserve…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Paolo Facchi , Giancarlo Garnero , Giuseppe Marmo , Joseph Samuel

A perturbation theory of the static response of insulating crystals to homogeneous electric fields, that combines the modern theory of polarization (MTP) with the variation-perturbation framework is developed, at unrestricted order of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 R. W. Nunes , Xavier Gonze

For a time-dependent $\tau$-periodic harmonic oscillator of two linearly independent homogeneous solutions of classical equation of motion which are bounded all over the time (stable), it is shown, there is a representation of states cyclic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Dae-Yup Song

The phase of a quantum state may not return to its original value after the system's parameters cycle around a closed path; instead, the wavefunction may acquire a measurable phase difference called the Berry phase. Berry phases typically…

We briefly review the standard derivation of the spectra of cosmological perturbations in the simplest models of inflation. We then consider models with several scalar fields, described by Lagrangians with an arbitrary dependence on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 David Langlois

We present a reformulation of quantum adiabatic theory in terms of an emergent electromagnetic framework, emphasizing the physical consequences of geometric structures in parameter space. Contrary to conventional approaches, we demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Georgios Konstantinou

The present paper tries to answer the question: Can a de Sitter phase in presence of radiation be a competitor of the standard inflationary paradigm for the early universe? This kind of a de Sitter phase can exist in cosmological models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-03 Kaushik Bhattacharya , Anirban Chatterjee , Saddam Hussain

A mechanism for generating metric perturbations in inflationary models is considered. Long-wavelength inhomogeneities of light scalar fields in a decoupled sector may give rise to superhorizon fluctuations of couplings and masses in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-24 Tomohiro Matsuda

Cosmological inflation is a popular paradigm for understanding Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR); however, it faces many conceptual challenges. An alternative mechanism to inflation for generating an almost scale-invariant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 S. Mahesh Chandran , S. Shankaranarayanan