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On the Relation Between Quantum Mechanical and Classical Parallel Transport

J. Anandan, L. Stodolsky

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9908046

Abstract

We explain how the kind of ``parallel transport'' of a wavefunction used in discussing the Berry or Geometrical phase induces the conventional parallel transport of certain real vectors. These real vectors are associated with operators whose commutators yield diagonal operators; or in Lie algebras those operators whose commutators are in the (diagonal) Cartan subalgebra.

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