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Berry phases have long been known to significantly alter the properties of periodic systems, resulting in anomalous terms in the semiclassical equations of motion describing wave-packet dynamics. In non-Hermitian systems, generalizations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Bar Alon , Roni Ilan , Moshe Goldstein

Under the spin-position decoupling approximation, a vector with a phase in 3D orientation space endowed with geometric algebra, substitutes the vector-matrix spin model built on the Pauli spin operator. The standard quantum operator-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Sokol Andoni

The Berry phase acquired by an electromagnetic field undergoing an adiabatic and cyclic evolution in phase space is a purely quantum-mechanical effect of the field. However, this phase is usually accompanied by a dynamical contribution and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Shi-Biao Zheng

We have found a manifestation of spin-orbit Berry phase in the conductance of a mesoscopic loop with Rashba spin-orbit coupling placed in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the loop plane. In detail, the transmission probabilities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Maxim P. Trushin , Alexander L. Chudnovskiy

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

We study the dynamics of a localized spin-1/2 driven by a time-periodic magnetic field that undergoes a topological transition. Despite the strongly non-adiabatic effects dominating the spin dynamics, we find that the field's topology…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-08 A. A. Reynoso , J. P. Baltanás , H. Saarikoski , J. E. Vázquez-Lozano , J. Nitta , D. Frustaglia

We study the geometric phase factors underlying the classical and the corresponding quantum dynamics of a driven nonlinear oscillator exhibiting chaotic dynamics. For the classical problem, we compute the geometric phase factors associated…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Indubala I. Satija , Radha Balakrishnan

We explicitly compute the geometrical Berry phase for the noncommutative gravitational quantum well for different SW maps. We find that they lead to different partial contributions to the Berry phase. For the most general map we obtain that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bastos , O. Bertolami

We address the development of geometric phases in classical and quantum magnetic moments (spin-1/2) precessing in an external magnetic field. We show that nonadiabatic dynamics lead to a topological phase transition determined by a change…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Henri Saarikoski , José Pablo Baltanás , J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano , Junsaku Nitta , Diego Frustaglia

We study the general-setting quantum geometric phase acquired by a particle in a vibrating cavity. Solving the two-level theory with the rotating-wave approximation and the SU(2) method, we obtain analytic formulae that give excellent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. W. Yuen , H. T. Fung , K. M. Cheng , M. -C. Chu , K. Colanero

The experimental realisation of the basic constituents of quantum information processing devices, namely fault-tolerant quantum logic gates, requires conditional quantum dynamics, in which one subsystem undergoes a coherent evolution that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Jones , V. Vedral , A. Ekert , G. Castagnoli

In quantum mechanics it is often required to describe in a semiclassical approximation the motion of particles moving within a given energy band. Such a representation leads to the appearance of an analogues of fictitious forces in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Eldad Bettelheim

The geometry of the parameter space is encoded by the quantum geometric tensor, which captures fundamental information about quantum states and contains both the quantum metric tensor and the curvature of the Berry connection. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Diego Gonzalez , Daniel Gutierrez-Ruiz , J. David Vergara

The physics of a quantum dot with electron-electron interactions is well captured by the so called "Universal Hamiltonian" if the dimensionless conductance of the dot is much higher than unity. Within this scheme interactions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Arijit Saha , Yuval Gefen , Igor Burmistrov , Alexander Shnirman , Alexander Altland

We investigate the geometric phase or Berry phase (BP) acquired by a spin-half which is both subject to a slowly varying magnetic field and weakly-coupled to a dissipative environment (either quantum or classical). We study how this phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert S. Whitney , Yuriy Makhlin , Alexander Shnirman , Yuval Gefen

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

Geometric or Berry phases are fundamental manifestations that appear in many areas of physics. They arise from the geometry of the space describing the properties of multi-component wave fields. An important example for electromagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-27 Aymeric Braud , Renaud Gueroult

We show the emergence of Berry phase in a forced harmonic oscillator system placed in the quantum space-time of Moyal type, where the time 't' is also an operator. An effective commutative description of the system gives a time dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-22 Anwesha Chakraborty , Partha Nandi , Biswajit Chakraborty

The standard quantum mechanical electronic state calculations for molecules and solids uses the Schroedinger representation where the momentum conjugate to the coordinate $q_r$ is given by $-hbar {partial over {partial q_r}}$. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-07 Hiroyasu Koizumi

We consider the adiabatic evolution of the Dirac equation in order to compute its Berry curvature in momentum space. It is found that the position operator acquires an anomalous contribution due to the non Abelian Berry gauge connection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Alain Bérard , Herve Mohrbach