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We introduce a self-consistent framework for the analysis of both Abelian and non-Abelian geometric phases associated with open quantum systems, undergoing cyclic adiabatic evolution. We derive a general expression for geometric phases,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Sarandy , D. A. Lidar

We show that geometric phases may be generated in a quantum system subject to noise by adiabatic manipulations of the fluctuating fields, e.g., by variation of the system-environment coupling. For a two-state quantum system we express this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. V. Syzranov , Yu. Makhlin

Quantum geometry characterizes the variation of wavefunctions in momentum space through their overlaps and relative phases, providing a general framework for understanding many transport and optical properties. It is generally formulated in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Alejandro S. Miñarro , Gervasi Herranz

Advances in quantum algorithms suggest a tentative scaling advantage on certain combinatorial optimization problems. Recent work, however, has also reinforced the idea that barren plateaus render variational algorithms ineffective on large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Tim Bode , Krish Ramesh , Tobias Stollenwerk

One of the most celebrated accomplishments of modern physics is the description of fundamental principles of nature in the language of geometry. As the motion of celestial bodies is governed by the geometry of spacetime, the motion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Tianyu Liu , Xiao-Bin Qiang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

We explore emergent geometry of the spacetime at the microscopic scale by adiabatic transport of a quasi-coherent state of a fermionic string, with quantum spacetime described by the matrix theory (BFSS matrix model). We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 David Viennot

We show that a noncyclic phase of geometric origin has to be included in the approximate adiabatic wave function. The adiabatic noncyclic geometric phase for systems exhibiting a conical intersection as well as for an Aharonov-Bohm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gonzalo Garcia de Polavieja , Erik Sjoeqvist

A quantum generalization of Natural Gradient Descent is presented as part of a general-purpose optimization framework for variational quantum circuits. The optimization dynamics is interpreted as moving in the steepest descent direction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 James Stokes , Josh Izaac , Nathan Killoran , Giuseppe Carleo

The complete geometry of quantum states in parameter space is characterized by the quantum geometric tensor, which contains the quantum metric and Berry curvature as the real and imaginary parts, respectively. When the quantum states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Hai-Tao Ding , Yan-Qing Zhu , Peng He , Yu-Guo Liu , Jian-Te Wang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We present an adaptive variational quantum algorithm to estimate the Berry phase accumulated by a nondegenerate ground state under cyclic, adiabatic evolution of a time-dependent Hamiltonian. Our method leverages cyclic adiabatic evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Martin Mootz , Yong-Xin Yao

Gate-based quantum computers can in principle simulate the adiabatic dynamics of a large class of Hamiltonians. Here we consider the cyclic adiabatic evolution of a parameter in the Hamiltonian. We propose a quantum algorithm to estimate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Bruno Murta , G. Catarina , J. Fernandez-Rossier

We derive the equation for the evolution of the curvature perturbation on the comoving time slice, $\mathcal{R}_c$, in the presence of anisotropic and non-adiabatic terms in the energy-momentum tensor of matter fields. The equation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-21 Atsushi Naruko , Antonio Enea Romano , Misao Sasaki , Sergio Vallejo Penas

We investigate a class of cyclic evolutions for %the cyclic evolution of driven two-level quantum systems (effective spin-1/2) with a particular focus on the geometric characteristics of the driving and their specific imprints on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Zu-Jian Ying , Paola Gentile , José Pablo Baltanàs , Diego Frustaglia , Carmine Ortix , Mario Cuoco

Quantum states of motion are critical components in the second quantum revolution. We investigate the generation and control of non-Gaussian motional states in a tripartite hybrid quantum system consisting of a collection of qubits coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Jugal Talukdar , Scott E. Smart , Prineha Narang

Adiabatic transport in a many-electron system is expressed in terms of the appropriate Berry curvature, owing to the Niu-Thouless theory [J. Phys A {\bf 17}, 2453 (1984)]; the main equation is very compact and very general. I address here…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-24 Raffaele Resta

Calibrating the role of entanglement in quantum algorithms is a crucial task in the development of quantum computing. Most existing studies have primarily focused on how the static properties of entanglement-such as its magnitude and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Chunxiao Du , Yang Zhou , Zhichen Huang , Rui Li , Zheng Qin , Shikun Zhang , Zhisong Xiao

We formulate a time-optimal approach to adiabatic quantum computation (AQC). A corresponding natural Riemannian metric is also derived, through which AQC can be understood as the problem of finding a geodesic on the manifold of control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 A. T. Rezakhani , W. -J. Kuo , A. Hamma , D. A. Lidar , P. Zanardi

Non-adiabatic non-Abelian geometric phase of spin-3/2 system in the rotating magnetic field is considered. Explicit expression for the corresponding effective non-Abelian gauge potential is obtained. This formula can be used for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. E. Margolin , V. I. Strazhev , A. Ya. Tregubovich

Understanding out-of-equilibrium quantum dynamics is a critical outstanding problem, with key questions regarding characterizing adiabaticity for applications in quantum technologies. We show how the metric-space approach to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 A. H. Skelt , R. W. Godby , I. D'Amico

One milestone in quantum physics is Berry's seminal work [Proc.~R.~Soc.~Lond.~A \textbf{392}, 45 (1984)], in which a quantal phase factor known as geometric phase was discovered to solely depend on the evolution path in state space. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Da-Jian Zhang , P. Z. Zhao , G. F. Xu