Stabilizing quantum metastable states in a time-periodic potential

Details Stabilizing quantum metastable states in a time-periodic potential Stabilizing quantum metastable states in a time-periodic potential

2004-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404150v2

Physical Review A71, 012102 (2005)

Physics

Quantum Physics

7 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.71.012102

Metastability of a particle trapped in a well with a time-periodically oscillating barrier is studied in the Floquet formalism. It is shown that the oscillating barrier causes the system to decay faster in general. However, avoided crossings of metastable states can occur with the less stable states crossing over to the more stable ones. If in the static well there exists a bound state, then it is possible to stabilize a metastable state by adiabatically increasing the oscillating frequency of the barrier so that the unstable state eventually cross-over to the stable bound state. It is also found that increasing the amplitude of the oscillating field may change a direct crossing of states into an avoided one.

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