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Static and Dynamical Manifestations of Hamiltonian Monodromy
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
  • John B. Delos, William & Mary
  • Christopher Robert Schleif, William & Mary
  • G. Dhont
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Pub Date
1-1-2008
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Abstract

The word 'monodromy' means 'once around a course', and it refers to changes that might occur when a system goes around some closed loop [1]. We discuss here a phenomenon whose proper name is 'nontrivial monodromy of action and angle variables in a Hamiltonian system'; for the obvious reason, we just call it 'Hamiltonian monodromy'. In this paper we describe two manifestations of Hamiltonian monodromy: a manifestation in a time-dependent classical system, and a manifestation in a stationary quantum system. Then we give a brief description of the mathematical theory, and finally close with a short survey of previous work on this subject.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/99/1/012005
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Citation Information
John B. Delos, Christopher Robert Schleif and G. Dhont. "Static and Dynamical Manifestations of Hamiltonian Monodromy" Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol. 99 (2008) p. 1 - 9
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john-delos/142/