We study a kind of geometric phases for entangled quantum systems, and particularly a spin driven by a magnetic field and entangled with another spin. The new kind of geometric phase is based on an analogy between open quantum systems and dissipative quantum systems which uses a C\ast-module structure. We show that the system presents from the viewpoint of their geometric phases, two behaviours. The first one is identical to the behaviour of an isolated spin driven by a magnetic field, as the problem originally treated by Berry. The second one is specific to the decoherence process. The gauge structures induced by these geometric phases are then similar to a magnetic monopole gauge structure for the first case, and can be viewed as a kind of instanton gauge structure for the second case. We study the role of these geometric phases in the evolution of a mixed state, particularly by focusing on the evolution of the density matrix coherence. We investigate also the relation between the geometric phase of the mixed state of one of the entangled systems and the geometric phase of the bipartite system.
We study a kind of geometric phase for entangled quantum systems, and particularly a spin driven by a magnetic field and entangled with another spin. The new kind of geometric phase is based on an analogy between open quantum systems and dissipative quantum systems which uses a C *-module structure. We show that the system presents, from the viewpoint of their geometric phases, two behaviours. The first one is identical to the behaviour of an isolated spin driven by a magnetic field, as the problem originally treated by Berry. The second one is specific to the decoherence process. The gauge structures induced by these geometric phases are then similar to a magnetic monopole gauge structure for the first case, and can be viewed as a kind of instanton gauge structure for the second case. We study the role of these geometric phases in the evolution of a mixed state, particularly by focusing on the evolution of the density matrix coherence. We investigate also the relation between the geometric phase of the mixed state of one of the entangled systems and the geometric phase of the bipartite system.
We introduce a connection between entanglement induced by interaction and geometric phases acquired by a composite quantum spin system. We begin by analyzing the evaluation of cyclic (Aharonov-Anandan) and noncyclic (Mukunda-Simon) geometric phases for general spin chains evolving in the presence of time-independent magnetic fields. Then, by considering Heisenberg chains, we show that the interaction geometric phase, namely, the total geometric phase with subtraction of free spin contributions, is directly related to the global (Meyer-Wallach) entanglement exhibited by an initially separable state during its evolution in Hilbert space. This is analytically shown for
N=2 spins and numerically illustrated for larger chains. This relationship promotes the interaction geometric phase to an indicator of global entanglement in the system, which may constitute a useful tool for quantum tasks based on entanglement as a resource to their performance.