Geometric nature of the environment-induced Berry phase and geometric dephasing

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Whitney, Robert S ^a   Makhlin, Yuriy ^b,c   Shnirman, Alexander ^b   Gefen, Yuval ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERRY PHASE; DEPHASING; PHASE RELAXATION PROCESSES; SYSTEM-ENVIRONMENT COUPLING;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MODIFICATION; PHASE SHIFT; QUANTUM THEORY; ROTATING MAGNETIC AMPLIFIERS; THEOREM PROVING;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 18144371183     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.070407     Document Type: Article

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