During the last few years, considerable interest has been focused on the phase that waves accumulate when the equations governing the waves vary slowly. The recent flurry of activity was set off by a paper by Michael Berry, where it was found that the adiabatic evolution of energy eigenfunctions in quantum mechanics contains a phase of geometric origin (now known as 'Berry's phase') in addition to the usual dynamical phase derived from Schrödinger's equation. This observation, though basically elementary, seems to be quite profound. Phases with similar mathematical origins have been identified and found to be important in a startling variety of physical contexts, ranging from nuclear magnetic resonance and low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics to quantum field theory. This volume is a collection of original papers and reprints, with commentary, on the subject.
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- The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology: Isqm-tokyo '05 by Sachio Ishioka on page 126, page 293, and page 308
- Geometric Phases in Classical and Quantum Mechanics (Progress in Mathematical Physics) by Dariusz Chruscinski in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Transition State: A Theoretical Approach by Takayuki Fueno on page 62, and page 247
- Conical Intersections: Electronic Structure, Dynamics & Spectroscopy (Advanced Series in Physical Chemistry) by Wolfgang Domcke on page 38, and page 551
- Fractional Statistics And Quantum Theory by Avinash Khare on page 42, and page 285
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