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In this scientific preface to the first issue of International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, we briefly survey some peculiarities of geometric techniques in quantum models.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sardanashvily , G. Giachetta

The geometric phase stands as a foundational concept in quantum physics, revealing deep connections between geometric structures and quantum dynamical evolution. Unlike dynamical phases, geometric phases exhibit intrinsic resilience to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Zheng-Yuan Xue , Cheng-Yun Ding

We provide a physical prescription based on interferometry for introducing the total phase of a mixed state undergoing unitary evolution, which has been an elusive concept in the past. We define the parallel transport condition that…

We review the key mathematical concepts necessary for studying Geometric Deep Learning.

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Michael Bronstein

The application of geometry to physics has provided us with new insightful information about many physical theories such as classical mechanics, general relativity, and quantum geometry (quantum gravity). The geometry also plays an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hoshang Heydari

A general formalism of the relation between geometric phases produced by circularly evolving interacting spin systems and their criticality behavior is presented. This opens up the way for the use of geometric phases as a tool to study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jiannis K. Pachos , Angelo C. M. Carollo

We consider a geometrization, i.e., we identify geometrical structures, for the space of density states of a quantum system. We also provide few comments on a possible application of this geometrization for composite systems.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , E. C. G. Sudarshan , F. Zaccaria

Geometric quantization is an attempt at using the differential-geometric ingredients of classical phase spaces regarded as symplectic manifolds in order to define a corresponding quantum theory. Generally, the process of geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Andrea Carosso

These notes give an introduction to the quantization procedure called geometric quantization. It gives a definition of the mathematical background for its understanding and introductions to classical and quantum mechanics, to differentiable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Nima Moshayedi

The connection between the geometric phase and quantum phase transition has been discussed extensively in the two-band model. By introducing the twist operator, the geometric phase can be defined by calculating its ground-state expectation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. T. Cui , Jie Yi

We investigate the dynamics of spheroids immersed in the journal bearing flow subject to a contractible non-reciprocal loop. We show how geometric phases appear not only in the position, but also in the orientation of such particles. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-13 Jorge Arrieta , Julyan H. E Cartwright , Oreste Piro , Idan Tuval

We examine evolutions where each component of a given decomposition of a mixed quantal state evolves independently in a unitary fashion. The geometric phase and parallel transport conditions for this type of decomposition dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 David Kult , Erik Sjöqvist

In this paper we study the phenomenon of phase transitions for the geodesic flow on some geometrically finite negatively curved manifolds. We define a class of potentials going slowly to zero through the cusps of $M$ for which the pressure…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Anibal Velozo

In this paper we review a proposed geometrical formulation of quantum mechanics. We argue that this geometrization makes available mathematical methods from classical mechanics to the quantum frame work. We apply this formulation to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 G. Marmo , G. F. Volkert

The problem of geometric phase for an open quantum system is reinvestigated in a unifying approach. Two of existing methods to define geometric phase, one by Uhlmann's approach and the other by kinematic approach, which have been considered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. T. Rezakhani , P. Zanardi

The geometry of jets of submanifolds is studied, with special interest in the relationship with the calculus of variations. A new intrinsic geometric formulation of the variational problem on jets of submanifolds is given. Working examples…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-02 Gianni Manno , Raffaele Vitolo

Geometric phases play a crucial role in diverse fields. In chemistry they appear when a reaction path encircles an intersection between adiabatic potential energy surfaces and the molecular wavefunction experiences quantum-mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Rocco Martinazzo , Irene Burghardt

The geometrical description of Quantum Mechanics is reviewed and proposed as an alternative picture to the standard ones. The basic notions of observables, states, evolution and composition of systems are analised from this perspective, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Florio M. Ciaglia , Alberto Ibort , Giuseppe Marmo

A kinematic approach to the geometric phase for mixed quantal states in nonunitary evolution is proposed. This phase is manifestly gauge invariant and can be experimentally tested in interferometry. It leads to well-known results when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 D. M. Tong , E. Sjöqvist , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Oh

This is the first paper in a series of eight where in the first three we develop a systematic approach to the geometric algebras of multivectors and extensors, followed by five papers where those algebraic concepts are used in a novel…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. M. Moya , V. V. Fernandez , W. A. Rodrigues