1301.5950 (Y. X. Du et al.)

Reply to "Comment on 'Detecting Non-Abelian Geometric Phases with
Three-Level Λ Atoms' "    [PDF]

Y. X. Du, Z. Y. Xue, X. D. Zhang, H. Yan

In this reply, we address the comment by Ericsson and Sjoqvist on our paper [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 84}, 034103 (2011)]. We point out that the zero gauge field is not the evidence of trivial geometric phase for a non-Abelian SU(2) gauge field. Furthermore, the recalculation shows that the non-Abelian geometric phase we proposed in the three-level $\Lambda$ system is indeed experimentally detectable.

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