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Off-diagonal quantum holonomy along density operators

Stefan Filipp, Erik Sjöqvist

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0403204

Abstract

Uhlmann's concept of quantum holonomy for paths of density operators is generalised to the off-diagonal case providing insight into the geometry of state space when the Uhlmann holonomy is undefined. Comparison with previous off-diagonal geometric phase definitions is carried out and an example comprising the transport of a Bell-state mixture is given.

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