Seminar series
Date
Mon, 01 Jun 2009
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
David Tong
Organisation
Cambridge
Abstract: I will give an introduction to the phenomenon of non-Abelian Berry phase. This process, which describes the holonomy of degenerate quantum states as parameters are varied, is governed by a non-Abelian gauge connection. I will explain why this set of ideas is particularly natural in supersymmetric quantum mechanics and will show that the connection is governed by well known equations of mathematical physics such as the Hitchin equation, the Bogomolnyi equation and generalizations.