Geometric phase for SU(N) through fiber bundles and unitary integration

Details Geometric phase for SU(N) through fiber bundles and unitary integration Geometric phase for SU(N) through fiber bundles and unitary integration

2005-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0511192v2

Phys.Rev.A74:030304,2006

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Quantum Physics

4 pages. Following referee reports in April 2006, stylistic changes made throughout and a specific application added at the en

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.74.030304

Geometric phases are important in quantum physics and now central to fault tolerant quantum computation. For spin-1/2 and SU(2), the Bloch sphere $S^2$, together with a U(1) phase, provides a complete SU(2) description. We generalize to $N$-level systems and SU($N$) in terms of a $2(N-1)$-dimensional base space and reduction to a ($N$-1)-level problem, paralleling closely the two-dimensional case. This iteratively solves the time evolution of an $N$-level system and gives ($N$-1) geometric phases explicitly. A complete analytical construction of a S^4 Bloch-like sphere for two qubits is given for the Spin(5) or SO(5) subgroup of SU(4).

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