15–17 Sept 2026
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Europe/Bucharest timezone

The differential geometry of constrained quantum states: Berry curvature and quantum metric

15 Sept 2026, 16:00
30m
Main Building (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Main Building

Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Kogalniceanu Street no 1, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Speaker

Marius Oancea (University of Vienna)

Description

The geometric properties of quantum states are crucial for understanding many physical phenomena in quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, and optics. The central object describing these properties is the quantum geometric tensor, which unifies the Berry curvature and the quantum metric. I will introduce the differential-geometric framework of vector bundles to analyze the properties of parameter-dependent quantum states and generalize the quantum geometric tensor to this setting. To illustrate these results, I will briefly discuss the sub-bundle geometry arising in the semiclassical treatment of Dirac fields propagating in curved spacetime and show how the quantum geometric tensor. This is based on https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2026-01-14-1965.

Topic Recent developments in differential geometry, Quantum groups and algebras, deformed quantum systems, Quantum information

Author

Marius Oancea (University of Vienna)

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