GEOMETRIC PHASES AND THE BOHR-SOMMERFELD QUANTIZATION OF MULTICOMPONENT WAVE FIELDS

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LITTLEJOHN, RG [1 ]
FLYNN, WG [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB,BERKELEY,CA 94720
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.2839
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Geometric phases play an important role in the asymptotic behavior of multicomponent wave fields, such as electromagnetic waves in plasmas or quantum-mechanical spinors, particularly in the problem of Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization. The proper gauge independence of the eigenvalues and asymptotic wave functions can be understood in terms of gauge-invariant but noncanonical coordinates on the classical phase space.
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