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Considerations about the Aharonov-Anandan Phase for Time Independent Hamiltonians

arXiv:0810.0309

Abstract

We present a method for calculating the Aharonov-Anandan phase for time-independent Hamiltonians that avoids the calculation of evolution operators. We compare the generic method used to calculate the Aharonov-Anandan phase with the method proposed here through four examples; a spin-1/2 particle in a constant magnetic field, an arbitrary infinite-sized Hamiltonian with two known eigenvalues, a Fabry-Perot cavity with one movable mirror and a three mirrors cavity with a slightly transmissive movable middle mirror.

8 pages Typos are corrected, part III.b. uses now only one gauge change. Submitted to PRA

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