Abstract
Aharonov and Anandan have recently reformulated and generalized Berry’s phase by showing that a quantum system which evolves through a circuit C in projective Hilbert space acquires a geometrical phase β(C) related to the topology of the space and the geometry of the circuit. We present NMR interferometry experiments in a three-level system which demonstrate the Aharonov-Anandan phase and its topological invariance for different circuits.
- Received 19 November 1987
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.1218
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