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In this review we consider the performance of the quantum adiabatic algorithm for the solution of decision problems. We divide the possible failure mechanisms into two sets: small gaps due to quantum phase transitions and small gaps due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 C. R. Laumann , R. Moessner , A. Scardicchio , S. L. Sondhi

We discuss adiabatic quantum phenomena at a level crossing. Given a path in the parameter space which passes through a degeneracy point, we find a criterion which determines whether the adiabaticity condition can be satisfied. For paths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mateusz Cholascinski

In supersymmetric quantum mechanics, the non-Abelian Berry phase is known to obey certain differential equations. Here we study N=(0,4) systems and show that the non-Abelian Berry connection over R^{4n} satisfies a generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-10 João N. Laia

Geometric phases are foundational to isolated quantum systems, yet their thermodynamic role in open systems remains unrevealed Developing a dissipative adiabatic perturbation expansion, we discover a Berry-phase-induced chiral work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Zhaoyu Fei , Yu-Han Ma

We provide rigorous bounds for the error of the adiabatic approximation of quantum mechanics under four sources of experimental error: perturbations in the initial condition, systematic time-dependent perturbations in the Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael J. O'Hara , Dianne P. O'Leary

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

The nonadiabatic geometric quantum computation may be achieved using coupled low-capacitance Josephson juctions. We show that the nonadiabtic effects as well as the adiabatic condition are very important for these systems. Moreover, we find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

We consider an all in-fiber optical modulator based on a ring resonator configuration. The case of adiabatic to nonadiabatic transition is considered, where the geometrical (Berry) phase acquired in a round trip along the ring changes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eyal Buks

We propose a experimentally feasible scheme to demonstrate the geometric phase in flux qubits by means of detuning coherent microwave pulse techniques. Through measuring the probability of the persistent current state in flux qubits, one…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. H. Peng , M. J. Zhang , D. N. Zheng

We study how the non-adiabatic effect causes the observable fluctuation in the "geometric phase" for a two-level system, which is defined as the experimentally measurable quantity in the adiabatic limit. From the Rabi's exact solution to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-08 Qing Ai , Wenyi Huo , Gui Lu Long , C. P. Sun

Quantum eigenstates undergoing cyclic changes acquire a phase factor of geometric origin. This phase, known as the Berry phase, or the geometric phase, has found applications in a wide range of disciplines throughout physics, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-13 J. M. Robbins

We present the first measurements of the Berry phase in a superconducting Cooper pair pump. A fixed amount of Berry phase is accumulated to the quantum-mechanical ground state in each adiabatic pumping cycle, which is determined by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikko Mottonen , Juha J. Vartiainen , Jukka P. Pekola

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

In 1984 Michael Berry discovered that an isolated eigenstate of an adiabatically changing periodic Hamiltonian $H(t)$ acquires a phase, called the Berry phase. We show that under very general assumptions the adiabatic approximation of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Maxim Braverman

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

In this paper we define a non-dynamical phase for a spin-1/2 particle in a rotating magnetic field in the non-adiabatic non-cyclic case, and this phase can be considered as a generalized Berry phase. We show that this phase reduces to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Siamak S. Gousheh , Azadeh Mohammadi , Leila Shahkarami

We review mathematical results concerning exponentially small corrections to adiabatic approximations and Born--Oppenheimer approximations.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 George A. Hagedorn , Alain Joye

In this letter, the generalization of geometric phase in density matrix is presented, we show that the extended sub-geometric phase have unified expression whatever in adiabatic or nonadiabatic procedure, the relations between them and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Zheng-Chuan Wang

In a quantum system initially in the n-th eigenstate, an adiabatic evolution of the Hamiltonian ensures that the system remains in the corresponding instantaneous eigenstate while acquiring a phase factor. This phase has two components: one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Mustapha Maamache

We study QED$_4$ in the adiabatic approximation, incorporating global topological effects associated with the $U(1)$ Berry connection. The Berry phase accumulated by the fermionic vacuum is given by $\Delta \alpha = \oint_{\mathcal{C}}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 J. Gamboa