We report the experimental observation of a geometric phase for elastic waves in a waveguide with helical shape. The setup reproduces the experiment by Tomita and Chiao (Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 1986) that showed first evidence of a Berry phase, a geometric phase for adiabatic time evolution, in optics. Experimental evidence of non-adiabatic geometric has been reported in quantum mechanics. We have...

The most widespread approach to anisotropic media is dyadic analysis. However, to get a geometrical picture of a dielectric tensor, one has to resort to a coordinate system for a matrix form in order to obtain, for example, the index-ellipsoid, thereby obnubilating the deeper coordinate-free meaning of anisotropy itself. To overcome these shortcomings we present a novel approach to anisotropy: ...

Geometric phase may enable inherently fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, due to potential decoherence effects, it is important to understand how such phases arise for mixed input states. We report the first experiment to measure mixed-state geometric phases in optics, using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and polarization mixed states that are produced in two different ways: decohering...

The modified aspects for simulating UWB multipath channels are presented in this paper. Pulse distortion mechanisms based on the geometric optics and the geometric theory of diffraction are specifically generated combing with the spatio-temporal characteristics of multipath clusters based on 3x3 planar array systems. In each particular scenario, model parameters such as angle-of-arrival, angle-...