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Electronic wave-functions in the adiabatic representation acquire nontrivial geometric phases (GPs) when corresponding potential energy surfaces undergo conical intersection (CI). These GPs have profound effects on the nuclear quantum…

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This is the fourth paper in a series of four in which we use space adiabatic methods in order to incorporate backreactions among the homogeneous and between the homogeneous and inhomogeneous degrees of freedom in quantum cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-17 S. Schander , T. Thiemann

Many physically interesting models show a quantum phase transition when a single parameter is varied through a critical point, where the ground state and the first excited state become degenerate. When this parameter appears as a coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-24 Gernot Schaller

The use of geometric methods has proved useful in the hamiltonian description of classical constrained systems. In this note we provide the first steps toward the description of the geometry of quantum constrained systems. We make use of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alejandro Corichi

Nonadiabatic geometric quantum computation (NGQC) has emerged as an excellent proposal for achieving fast and robust quantum control against control errors. However, previous NGQC protocols could not be strongly resilient against the noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Tian-Xiang Hou , Wei Li

We investigate the quantum geometric tensor, which is comprised of the Berry curvature and quantum metric, in a generalized Dirac two-band system with non-integer dispersion $E(\mathbf{k})\sim k^{\alpha}$. Our analysis reveals that this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-03 Jamme Omar A. Biscocho , Kristian Hauser A. Villegas

Geometric phases have stimulated researchers for its potential applications in many areas of science. One of them is fault-tolerant quantum computation. A preliminary requisite of quantum computation is the implementation of controlled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Ranabir Das , S. K. Karthick Kumar , Anil Kumar

There exists a geometric phase for a quantum state during the adiabatic evolution of the system. If the adiabatic procedure happens between the system and the environment interacting with it similar to Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Zheng-Chuan Wang

Universality of classical thermodynamics rests on the central limit theorem, due to which, measurements of thermal fluctuations are unable to reveal detailed information regarding the microscopic structure of a macroscopic body. When small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Lucas Chibebe Céleri , Łukasz Rudnicki

Adiabatic approximations break down classically when a constant-energy contour splits into separate contours, forcing the system to choose which daughter contour to follow; the choices often represent qualitatively different behavior, so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Peter Stabel , James R. Anglin

Many basis sets for electronic structure calculations evolve with varying external parameters, such as moving atoms in dynamic simulations, giving rise to extra derivative terms in the dynamical equations. Here we revisit these derivatives…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Emilio Artacho , David D. O'Regan

Berry curvature is an imaginary component of the quantum geometric tensor (QGT) and is well studied in many branches of modern physics; however, the quantum metric as a real component of the QGT is less explored. Here, by using tunable…

Fast and robust quantum gates is the cornerstone of fault-tolerance quantum computation. In this paper, we propose to achieve quantum gates based on non-cyclic geometric evolution. Dynamical phase during the evolution is cancelled by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Qing-Xian Lv , Zhen-Tao Liang , Hong-Zhi Liu , Jia-Hao Liang , Kai-Yu Liao , Yan-Xiong Du

In this paper we study the implementation of non-adiabatic geometrical quantum gates with in semiconductor quantum dots. Different quantum information enconding/manipulation schemes exploiting excitonic degrees of freedom are discussed. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paolo Solinas , Paolo Zanardi , Nino Zangh\`ı , Fausto Rossi

A series of geometric concepts are formulated for $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics and they are further unified into one entity, i.e., an extended quantum geometric tensor (QGT). The imaginary part of the extended QGT gives a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Da-Jian Zhang , Qing-hai Wang , Jiangbin Gong

The concept of quantum geometry for single-particle states has revolutionized our interpretation of several emergent properties in condensed matter. However, a description of the quantum geometry for interacting particles and an…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 MingRui Lai , Fengyuan Xuan , Su Ying Quek

For a wide variety of quantum potentials, including the textbook `instanton' examples of the periodic cosine and symmetric double-well potentials, the perturbative data coming from fluctuations about the vacuum saddle encodes all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-23 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne , Mithat Unsal

A clear separation of the time scales governing the dynamics of "slow" and "fast" degrees of freedom often serves as a prerequisite for the emergence of an independent low-energy theory. Here, we consider (slow) classical spins exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Nicolas Lenzing , Alexander I. Lichtenstein , Michael Potthoff

Counterdiabatic driving emerges as a valuable technique for implementing shortcuts to adiabaticity protocols, enhancing quantum technology applications. In this context, counterdiabatic quantum computing represents a new paradigm with the…