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It is well known that the Gaussian wave packet dynamics can be written in terms of Hamilton equations in the extended phase space that is twice as large as in the corresponding classical system. We construct several generalizations of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Andrey Pereverzev , Eric R. Bittner

We study phase contributions of wave functions that occur in the evolution of Gaussian surface gravity water wave packets with nonzero initial momenta propagating in the presence and absence of an effective external linear potential. Our…

Geometric phases play an enormous role in optics and are generally associated with the evolution of light's polarization state on the Poincar\'{e} sphere, or its spin on the sphere of spin directions. Here we put forward a new kind of…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 Alex J. Vernon , Konstantin Y. Bliokh

An operator generalisation of the notion of geometric phase has been recently proposed purely based on physical grounds. Here we provide a mathematical foundation for its existence, while uncovering new geometrical structures in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Vivek M. Vyas

An effect of geometrical phase shift is predicted for a light beam propagating in the field of a gravitational wave. Gravitational radiation detection experiments are proposed using this new effect, the corresponding estimates being given.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-15 N V Mitskievich , A I Nesterov

Traditional optical phase imprinting of matter waves is of a dynamical nature. In this paper we show that both Abelian and non-Abelian geometric phases can be optically imprinted onto matter waves, yielding a number of interesting phenomena…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Qi Zhang , Jiangbin Gong , C. H. Oh

We investigate the geometric phase of an atom inside an adiabatic radio frequency (rf) potential created from a static magnetic field (B-field) and a time dependent rf field. The spatial motion of the atomic center of mass is shown to give…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Zhang , L. You

The geometric phases for standard coherent states which are widely used in quantum optics have attracted a large amount of attention. Nevertheless, few physicists consider about the counterparts of non-linear coherent states, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-24 Da-Bao Yang , Ying Chen , Fu-Lin Zhang , Jing-Ling Chen

The phases are the main factor that affects the outcome of various optical phenomena, such as quantum superposition, wave interference, and light-matter interaction. As a light wave becomes nonstatic, an additional phase, the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Jeong Ryeol Choi

Steering a quantum harmonic oscillator state along cyclic trajectories leads to a path-dependent geometric phase. Here we describe an experiment observing this geometric phase in an electronic harmonic oscillator. We use a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 M. Pechal , S. Berger , A. A. Abdumalikov , J. M. Fink , J. A. Mlynek , L. Steffen , A. Wallraff , S. Filipp

Beyond the quantum Markov approximation, we calculate the geometric phase of a two-level system driven by a quantized magnetic field subject to phase dephasing. The phase reduces to the standard geometric phase in the weak coupling limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 X. X. Yi , L. C. Wang , W. Wang

Geometric phases, arising from cyclic evolutions in a curved parameter space, appear in a wealth of physical settings. Recently, and largely motivated by the need of an experimentally realistic definition for quantum computing applications,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-04 F. M. Cucchietti , J. -F. Zhang , F. C. Lombardo , P. I. Villar , R. Laflamme

A new approach to the geometrization of the electron theory is proposed. The particle wave function is represented by a geometric entity, i.e., Clifford number, with the translation rules possessing the structure of Dirac equation for any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. I. Lev

The geometric concept of geodesic completeness depends on the choice of the metric field or "metric frame". We develop a frame-invariant concept of "generalised geodesic completeness" or "time completeness". It is based on the notion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-21 V. A. Rubakov , C. Wetterich

The geometric phase of a bi-particle model is discussed. For different initial states, especially when the initial state is pure or mixed, the geometric phase will show different properties. The relationship between the geometric phase and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guo-Qiang Zhu

- An algorithm for calculating the radiation field of a charged point particle performing a spiral motion in an infinite cylindrical waveguide with a multilayer side wall is found. The number of layers and their filling is arbitrary. The…

We study geodesics on the parameter manifold, for systems exhibiting second order classical and quantum phase transitions. The coupled non-linear geodesic equations are solved numerically for a variety of models which show such phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Prashant Kumar , Subhash Mahapatra , Prabwal Phukon , Tapobrata Sarkar

The state of a quantum system acquires a phase factor, called the geometric phase, when taken around a closed trajectory in the parameter space, which depends only on the geometry of the parameter space. Due to its sensitive nature, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Navdeep Arya , Vikash Mittal , Kinjalk Lochan , Sandeep K. Goyal

Geometric phases of scattering states in a ring geometry are studied based on a variant of the adiabatic theorem. Three time scales, i.e., the adiabatic period, the system time and the dwell time, associated with adiabatic scattering in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Urban Lundin , Sam Young Cho

We construct a semiclassical theory for propagation of an optical wavepacket in non-conducting media with periodic structures of dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability, i.e., non-conducting photonic crystals. We employ a…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaru Onoda , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa