Parallel transport along a space curve and related phases
- 7 June 1989
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 22 (11) , L461-L466
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/22/11/003
Abstract
The authors investigate geometrical properties of a space curve and of its spherical images. They show that a space curve is characterised by two 'phase-like' quantities and comment on the relation of these quantities to the Berry phase.Keywords
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