Berry phase factor

Another illustration of the role of the JTE in rationalization of the results of ab initio calculations is the APES (discussed above) of the ground and first two excited states of the Sis molecule the cross section of which is shown in Fig. 4 [16]. Presently, just the picture of this APES and the numerical values of its parameters, without further rationalization, may not be sufficiently informative, even for a journal publication the only model to fully explain this picture is the JTE. The picture reveals a very weak JTE in the excited E state in combination with the PJTE on the two excited states E and M1 accompanied by orbital disproportionation (and no Berry phase factor) which together provide for a sufficiently full understanding of the results of the ab initio calculations. 

An external magnetic field or spin-orbit coupling would add a term zcr, with z a constant, to the excited state Hamiltonian (2.2) [1(c), 22]. The strategy outlined below for measuring the adiabatic electronic sign change will be equally well applicable to the complex Berry phase factors occurring in the presence of a term. 

P Garcia-Fernandez, I. B. Bersuker, and J. E. Boggs, Lost topological (Berry) phase factor in electronic structure calculations. Example the ozone molecule, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163005 (2006). 

We also describe a tracing method to obtain the phases after a full cycling. We shall further consider wave functions whose phases at the completion of cycling differ by integer multiples of 2ji (a situation that will be written, for brevity, as 2Nn ). Some time ago, these wave functions were shown to be completely equivalent, since only the phase factor (viz., elThase) is observable [156] however, this is true only for a set of measurements that are all made at instances where the phase difference is 2Nn. We point out simple, necessary connections between having a certain 2Nn situation and observations made prior to the achievement of that situation. The phase that is of interest in this chapter is the Berry phase of the wave function [9], not its total phase, though this distinction will not be restated. 

Berry, M. V. (1984). Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., 392 45. 

Berry, M. V. 1984. Quantal Phase Factors Accompanying Adiabatic Changes, Proc. Roy. Soc. London A 392, 45-57. 

The geometric phase effect associated with chemical reactions [166] and with the motion of electrons in magnetic fields [167] was generalized in 1984 by Berry [168] to systems which are transported around a loop or circuit C in parameter space. If H is the system s Hamiltonian and R a set of parametric variables on which H depends, he showed that an eigenstate of when the system is transported slowly (i.e., adiabatically) around C, will acquire a geometrical phase factor independent of time, in addition to the familiar... 

The first term in (13), also called the diagonal term (Berry 1985), originates from periodic orbit pairs (p,p ) related through cyclic permutations of the vertex symbol code. There are typically n orbits of that kind and all these orbits have the same amplitude A and phase L. The corresponding periodic orbit pair contributions is (in general) g n - times degenerate where n is the length of the orbit and g is a symmetry factor (g = 2 for time reversal symmetry). 

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