Abstract
Resorting to Berry's phase, a new idea to detect, at quantum level, the gravitomagnetic field of any metric theory of gravity, is put forward. It is found in this proposal that the magnitude of the gravitomagnetic field appears only in the definition of the adiabatic regime, but not in the magnitude of the emerging geometric phase. In other words, the physical parameter to be observed does not involve, in a direct way, (as in the usual proposals) the tiny magnitude of the gravitomagnetic field.
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Camacho, A. Letter: Coupling Gravitomagnetism—Spin and Berry's Phase. General Relativity and Gravitation 34, 1963–1967 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020736712904
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