Fractional monodromy in systems with coupled angular momenta

Abstract

We present a one-parameter family of systems with fractional monodromy, which arises from a 1:2 diagonal action of a dynamical symmetry SO(2). In a regime of adiabatic separation of slow and fast motions, we relate the presence of fractional monodromy to a redistribution of states both in the quantum and in the semi-quantum spectra.