Falling Cats, Parallel Parking, and Polarized Light
Batterman, Robert (2002) Falling Cats, Parallel Parking, and Polarized Light.
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Abstract
This paper addresses issues surrounding the concept of geometric phase or "anholonomy". Certain physical phenomena apparently require for their explanation and understanding, reference to toplogocial/geometric features of some abstract space of parameters. These issues are related to the question of how gauge structures are to be interpreted and whether or not the debate over their "reality" is really going to be fruitful.
| Keywords: | geometric phase, Berry phase, Aharonov-Bohm effect, gauge theory, fiber bundles, monopoles, polarized light |
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences: Physics: Classical Physics Specific Sciences: Physics: Fields and Particles Specific Sciences: Physics |
| ID Code: | 794 |
| Deposited By: | Batterman, Robert |
| Deposited On: | 09 September 2002 |