The geometric phase of the quantum systems with slow but finite rate of the external time-dependent field

Author: Xin-Yan Jia   Wei-Dong Li   Jiu-Qing Liang  

Publisher: IOP Publishing

ISSN: 1009-1963

Source: Chinese Physics, Vol.16, Iss.10, 2007-10, pp. : 2855-2861

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Abstract

With the help of the time-dependent gauge transformation technique, we have studied the geometric phase of a spin-half particle in a rotating magnetic field. We have found that the slow but finite frequency of the rotating magnetic field will make the difference between the adiabatic geometric phase and the exact geometric phase. When the frequency is much smaller than the energy space and the adiabatic condition is perfectly guaranteed, the adiabatic approximation geometric phase is exactly consistent with the adiabatic geometric phase. A simple relation for the accuracy of the adiabatic approximation is given in terms of the changing rate of the frequency of the rotating magnetic field and the energy level space.