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Adiabatic Phases in Classical Mechanics

Dariusz Chruściński, Andrzej Jamiołkowski

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations

Abstract

What could be a classical analog of the quantum geometric phase? An obvious candidate, which is even called a phase, is the phase of harmonic motion: These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-8176-0_3

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