Observation of a non-adiabatic geometric phase for elastic waves
Jérémie Boulanger, Nicolas Le Bihan, Stéfan Catheline +1 more
We report the experimental observation ofageometricphase for elastic wavesin awaveguidewith helicalshape. Thesetup reproducestheexperimentbyTomita and Chiao (Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 1986) that showed first evidence of a Berry phase, a geometric phase for adiabatic time evolution, in optics. Experimental evidence of non-adiabatic geometric has been reported in quantum mechanics. We have performed an experiment to observe the polarization transport of classical elastic waves. In a waveguide, these waves are polarized and dispersive. Whereas the wavelength is of the same order of magnitude as the helix ’ radius, no frequency dependent correction is necessary to account for the theoretical prediction. This shows that in this regime, the geometric phase results directly from geometry and not from a correction to an adiabatic phase. 1.
•Jan 1, 2012•11 citations