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On leave form Physics Dept., Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel
Research partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-8801918
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Avron, J.E., Sadun, L., Segert, J. et al. Chern numbers, quaternions, and Berry's phases in Fermi systems. Commun.Math. Phys. 124, 595–627 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01218452
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