Geometric Phases in Physics

by Frank Wilczek and Alfred Shapere

During the last few years, considerable interest has been focused on the phase that waves accumulate when the equations governing the waves vary slowly. The recent flurry of activity was set off by a paper by Michael Berry, where it was found that the adiabatic evolution of energy eigenfunctions in quantum mechanics contains a phase of geometric origin (now known as 'Berry's phase') in addition to the usual dynamical phase derived from Schr dinger's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9971506211
• ISBN13: 9789971506216
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.7"