Vacuum Induced Spin-1/2 Berry’s Phase

I. Fuentes-Guridi, A. Carollo, S. Bose, and V. Vedral
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 220404 – Published 7 November 2002

Abstract

We calculate the Berry phase of a spin-1/2 particle in a magnetic field considering the quantum nature of the field. The phase reduces to the standard Berry phase in the semiclassical limit and the eigenstate of the particle acquires a phase in the vacuum. We also show how to generate a vacuum induced Berry phase considering two quantized modes of the field which has an interesting physical interpretation.

  • Received 22 February 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.220404

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

I. Fuentes-Guridi1, A. Carollo1,3, S. Bose2, and V. Vedral1

  • 1Optics Section, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
  • 2Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, England
  • 3INFM, Unità di Ricerca di Palermo, via Archirafi 36, 90123 Italy

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Vol. 89, Iss. 22 — 25 November 2002

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