Cyclic phase of a spin in a rotating field

ID: cyclic-phase-of-a-spin-in-a-rotating-field

An eigenstate of the rotating-frame Rabi Hamiltonian returns to the same laboratory ray after a full drive period. Its quantum phase includes both the rotating-frame energy and the sign of a full spin rotation. For spin and magnetic label , the factor is . Expanding the rotating-frame splitting to first order in the drive frequency and subtracting the adiabatic dynamical phase leaves times the oriented solid angle of the field loop. Dropping the full-rotation sign gives a spurious half-integer-spin offset.

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