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.
- Received 29 February 1988
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1687
©1988 American Physical Society
