Reply to `Singularities of the mixed state phase'

J. Anandan, E. Sjöqvist, A. K. Pati +4

The only difference between Bhandari's viewpoint [quant-ph/0108058] and ours [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2845 (2000)] is that our phase is defined modulo $2\pi$, whereas Bhandari argues th…