Geometric phase corrected by initial system-environment correlations

Abstract

We find the geometric phase of a two-level system undergoing pure dephasing via interaction with an arbitrary environment, taking into account the effect of the initial system-environment correlations. We use our formalism to calculate the geometric phase for the two-level system in the presence of both harmonic oscillator and spin environments, and we consider the initial state of the two-level system to be prepared by a projective measurement or a unitary operation. The geometric phase is evaluated for a variety of parameters such as the system-environment coupling strength to show that the initial correlations can affect the geometric phase very significantly even for weak and moderate system-environment coupling strengths. Moreover, the correction to the geometric phase due to the system-environment coupling generally becomes smaller (and can even be zero) if initial system-environment correlations are taken into account, thus implying that the system-environment correlations can increase the robustness of the geometric phase.

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