Geometric Canonical Phase Factors and Path Integrals
- 10 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 61 (15), 1687-1690
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.1687
Abstract
It is shown that the geometric phase accompanying an arbitrary cyclic change of the state vector can be naturally understood as a canonical phase term in the coherent-state path integral. The adiabatic phase is shown to be derived as a part of the canonical phase.Keywords
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