The Geometric Phase

(M.V. Berry, 1984)

• Topology of path can introduce phase factor in wavefunction (e.g. light, quantum mechanical wavepachet, etc.)

• An overlooked phase factor in QM formulation of Born, Dirac

??Consequences in molecular spectroscopy : mysterious forbidden bands explained.

??Aharanov - Bohm effect

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