Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Journal Title
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Pub Date
2008
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Volume
99
First Page
1
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.
Recommended Citation
Delos, John B.; Schleif, Christopher Robert; and Dhont, G., Static and Dynamical Manifestations of Hamiltonian Monodromy (2008). Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 99, 1-9.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/99/1/012005
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/99/1/012005
