Thomas precession, spin-orbit interaction, and Berry’s phase
- 9 December 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 67 (24) , 3325-3327
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.67.3325
Abstract
The spin-orbit interaction is shown to arise as a Berry phase term in the adiabatic effective Hamiltonian for the orbital motion of a Dirac electron. This approach makes explicit the intimate connection of the spin-orbit interaction and Thomas precession.Keywords
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