Berry phase and quantum structure

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.08.013zbMath1301.81076arXiv1408.6867OpenAlexW2009163922MaRDI QIDQ476061

Holger Lyre

Publication date: 27 November 2014

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6867

zbMATH Keywords

fiber bundleBerry phaseontic structural realismminimal quantum structureprojective Hilbert space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Projective representations and multipliers (20C25) Physics (00A79) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Projective analytic geometry (51N15) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

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