Physical Review Letters
Nonadiabatic Geometrical Phase during Cyclic Evolution of a Gaussian Wave Packet
Y. C. Ge, Mark Sheard Child
Abstract
The Gaussian wave packet solution to the Schr\"odinger equation is studied for time-dependent Hamiltonians. The geometrical phase is obtained for a cyclic wave packet solution of the generalized harmonic oscillator with a nonadiabatic time-periodic Hamiltonian. It is found that the geometrical phase is independent of $\ensuremath{\Elzxh}$, and is equal to one-half of the classical nonadiabatic Hannay angle. The Hannay angle is shown to be independent of the classical action and does not involve averaging.