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This work deals with relations between a bounded cohomological invariant and the geometry of Hermitian symmetric spaces of noncompact type. The invariant, obtained from the K\"ahler class, is used to define and characterize a special class…

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Quantum gravity phenomenology suggests an effective modification of the general relativistic dispersion relation of freely falling point particles caused by an underlying theory of quantum gravity. Here we analyse the consequences of…

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An algebraic formulation of Riemannian geometry on quantum spaces is presented, where Riemannian metric, distance, Laplacian, connection, and curvature have their counterparts. This description is also extended to complex manifolds.…

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In this chapter we take up the quantum Riemannian geometry of a spatial slice of spacetime. While researchers are still facing the challenge of observing quantum gravity, there is a geometrical core to loop quantum gravity that does much to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Hal M. Haggard , Jerzy Lewandowski , Hanno Sahlmann

We construct a cohomological field theory for a gauged linear sigma model space in geometric phase, using the method of gauge theory and differential geometry. The cohomological field theory is expected to match the Gromov-Witten theory of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Gang Tian , Guangbo Xu

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

The unification of all physical fields into one mathematical object and the derivation of all physical field equations from that object in one framework is a long-lasting endeavor in fundamental physics. We suggest a new approach to achieve…

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Three related topics on the quantum-vacuum geometric phases in a noncoplanarly curved optical fiber is presented: (i) a brief review: the investigation of vacuum effect and its experimental realization; (ii) the sequence of ideas of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Qi Shen

We perform a Hamiltonian reduction of spherically symmetric Einstein gravity with a thin dust shell of positive rest mass. Three spatial topologies are considered: Euclidean (R^3), Kruskal (S^2 x R), and the spatial topology of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 John L. Friedman , Jorma Louko , Stephen N. Winters-Hilt

All existing experimental results are currently interpreted using classical geometry. However, there are theoretical reasons to suspect that at a deeper level, geometry emerges as an approximate macroscopic behavior of a quantum system at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Craig Hogan

Quantum states defined over a parameter space form a Grassmann manifold. To capture the geometry of the associated gauge structure, gauge-invariant quantities are essential. We employ the projector of a multilevel system to quantify the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Shin-Ming Huang , Dimitrios Giataganas

The earlier approach is used for description of qubits and geometric phase parameters, the things critical in the area of topological quantum computing. The used tool, Geometric (Clifford) Algebra is the most convenient formalism for that…

General Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Alexander M. Soiguine

The investigation of the Hamiltonian dynamical counterpart of phase transitions, combined with the Riemannian geometrization of Hamiltonian dynamics, has led to a preliminary formulation of a differential-topological theory of phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-19 Matteo Gori , Roberto Franzosi , Giulio Pettini , Marco Pettini

We discuss the basic theoretical framework for non-Hermitian quantum systems with particular emphasis on the diagonalizability of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and their $GL(1,\mathbb{C})$ gauge freedom, which are relevant to the adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Qi Zhang , Biao Wu

We apply geometric phase ideas to coherent states to shed light on interference phenomenon in the phase space description of continuous variable Cartesian quantum systems. In contrast to Young's interference characterized by path lengths,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Mayukh N. Khan , S. Chaturvedi , N. Mukunda , R. Simon

We derive the general form of the non-trivial geometric phase resulting from the unique combination of point group and time reversal symmetries. This phase arises e.g. when a magnetic adatom is adsorbed on a non-magnetic C$_n$ crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Marta Prada

For more than half a century, covariant and differential geometric methods have been playing a central role in the development of Quantum Field Theory (QFT). After a brief historic overview of the major scientific achievements using these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-25 Kieran Finn , Viola Gattus , Sotirios Karamitsos , Apostolos Pilaftsis

We show how geometric phases may be used to fully describe quantum systems, with or without gravity, by providing knowledge about the geometry and topology of its Hilbert space. We find a direct relation between geometric phases and von…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-05 Souvik Banerjee , Moritz Dorband , Johanna Erdmenger , Anna-Lena Weigel

Various problems concerning the geometry of the space $u^*(\cH)$ of Hermitian operators on a Hilbert space $\cH$ are addressed. In particular, we study the canonical Poisson and Riemann-Jordan tensors and the corresponding foliations into…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Janusz Grabowski , Marek Kuś , Giuseppe Marmo