Degenerate Landau-Zener model: Exact analytical solution

Details Degenerate Landau-Zener model: Exact analytical solution Degenerate Landau-Zener model: Exact analytical solution

2009-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/0909.5396v1

Physical Review A 75, 013417 (2007)

Physics

Quantum Physics

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10.1103/PhysRevA.75.013417

The exact analytical solution of the degenerate Landau-Zener model, wherein two bands of degenerate energies cross in time, is presented. The solution is derived by using the Morris-Shore transformation, which reduces the fully coupled system to a set of independent nondegenerate two-state systems and a set of decoupled states. Due to the divergence of the phase of the off-diagonal element of the propagator in the original Landau-Zener model, not all transition probabilities exist for infinite time duration. In general, apart from some special cases, only the transition probabilities between states within the same degenerate set exist, but not between states of different sets. An illustration is presented for the transition between the magnetic sublevels of two atomic levels with total angular momenta J=2 and 1.

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