Chinese Physics C

A CLASSICAL MODLE OF QUANTUM BERRY'S PHASE FACTOR

Chen Sun

Published Jan 1, 1989• 0 citations

Abstract

Considering that the classical evolution equations are similar to the Schrodinger eqaution, we point out that there is the structure of the Berry's Phase in the solution of a classical evolution eqaution with adiabatic changing parameters. Thus, we can use a classical evolution process to imitate the quantum adiabatic process. As an example, the motion of a charged particle in slowly-changing magnetic field is studied and the corresponding phase factor can be interpreted as a holomony of the fiber bundle on the sphare s~2 in the parameter space.

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