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Prof. Michael Berry, Keynote
Prof.
Michael Berry
(University of Bristol, Europe)
26/08/2025, 13:30
The waves that describe systems in quantum physics can carry information about how their environment has been altered, for example by forces acting on them. This effect is the geometric phase. It occurs in the optics of polarised light, where it goes back to the 1820s; it influences wave interference; and it provides insight into the spin-statistics relation for identical quantum particles....