Divakaran, Uma ; Dutta, Amit ; Sen, Diptiman (2010) Landau-Zener problem with waiting at the minimum gap and related quench dynamics of a many-body system Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 81 (5). 054306_1-054306_6. ISSN 1098-0121
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Abstract
We discuss a technique for solving the Landau-Zener (LZ) problem of finding the probability of excitation in a two-level system. The idea of time reversal for the Schrödinger equation is employed to obtain the state reached at the final time and hence the excitation probability. Using this method, which can reproduce the well-known expression for the LZ transition probability, we solve a variant of the LZ problem, which involves waiting at the minimum gap for a time tw; we find an exact expression for the excitation probability as a function of tw. We provide numerical results to support our analytical expressions. We then discuss the problem of waiting at the quantum critical point of a many-body system and calculate the residual energy generated by the time-dependent Hamiltonian. Finally, we discuss possible experimental realizations of this work.
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Deposited On: | 28 Jun 2011 05:48 |
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