Geometric Phases of a Driven Qubit: Comparing Berry and Uhlmann Holonomies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22919v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:56:40 GMT
• Title: Geometric Phases of a Driven Qubit: Comparing Berry and Uhlmann Holonomies
• Abstract summary: We study a qubit subject to a uniformly gapped conical drive.<n>For a qubit subject to a uniformly gapped conical drive, we obtain the Uhlmann connection and holonomy inequilibrium for the Gibbs cycle.
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• Abstract: The Berry phase arises naturally from the adiabatic dynamics of a pure quantum state, whereas the Uhlmann phase is usually formulated kinematically for a prescribed path of mixed states. For a qubit subject to a uniformly gapped conical drive, we obtain the Uhlmann connection and holonomy in closed form for the equilibrium Gibbs cycle. We then solve the corresponding Lindblad equation exactly in the rotating frame and show that its steady state forms a nonequilibrium limit cycle that lags the instantaneous Gibbs cycle. As the driving becomes slow, the Uhlmann phase approaches the equilibrium Uhlmann phase, which cooling then reduces to the Berry phase: in the joint adiabatic and low-temperature limit, the dynamical Uhlmann phase therefore converges to the Berry phase. This grounds the Uhlmann--Berry correspondence in the physical dynamics of an open system. We also characterize the finite-driving corrections, together with the discontinuous $π$ jump that the Uhlmann phase undergoes on the equatorial cycle as the temperature is varied. Finally, we examine an isolated transversal gap closing, where this zero-temperature correspondence can break down: the pure-state path becomes open, its closure is ambiguous, and gap-opening regularizations close it along a geodesic set by the direction of the bias field, splitting the Berry phase into a one-parameter family of values. The Gibbs path instead closes smoothly through the maximally mixed state, so the Uhlmann holonomy requires no regularization and remains unique and continuous at every finite temperature. In the low-temperature limit the Uhlmann phase selects a single member of the Berry family---the geodesic closure in the osculating plane, fixed by the velocity and acceleration of the driving field. The Uhlmann--Berry correspondence of the gapped regime thus survives the gap closing as a geodesic selection rule.

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