The geometric phase
Abstract
How the geometric phase arises in quantum systems is described. Some of the ways in which the geometric phase has been experimentally observed in optics, neutron optics, and nuclear magnetic resonance studies are reviewed.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 1992
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1992Natur.360..307A
- Keywords:
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- Angles (Geometry);
- Particle Spin;
- Quantum Theory;
- Wave Functions;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance;
- Quantum Mechanics;
- Physics (General)