During the last few years, considerable interest has been focused
on the phase that waves accumulate when the equations governing the
waves vary slowly. The recent flurry of activity was set off by a
paper by Michael Berry, where it was found that the adiabatic
evolution of energy eigenfunctions in quantum mechanics contains a
phase of geometric origin (now known as 'Berry's phase') in
addition to the usual dynamical phase derived from Schrodinger's
equation. This observation, though basically elementary, seems to
be quite profound. Phases with similar mathematical origins have
been identified and found to be important in a startling variety of
physical contexts, ranging from nuclear magnetic resonance and
low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics to quantum field theory. This
volume is a collection of original papers and reprints, with
commentary, on the subject.
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