简介: |
The traditional Berry phase, which characterizes
trajectories swept by pure states, can be generalized to mixed
states in two inequivalent ways. In one of them the
"generalized Berry phase" accrues on a fictitious purifier
system; in another it transforms the algebra of observables, with
which the mixed state may be probed. My collaborators and I
independently discovered that second generalization last year in the
context of holographic duality. In this talk, I will explain the
journey from the usual Berry phase to its two generalizations, and
illustrate it using Matrix Product States. We will see how the two
generalized Berry phases can be used together to describe
Measurement-Based Quantum Computation---a protocol for conducting
quantum computations by measurements alone. The formalism shares
many commonalities with how Symmetry-Protected Topological order
(SPT) is described in Matrix Product States. |