Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2005-10-03
Phys. Rev. A 73, 042104 (2006)
Physics
Quantum Physics
9 pages. Added references, discussion of previous results, expanded upon discussion of main result and application of it
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.73.042104
A new and intuitive perturbative approach to time-dependent quantum mechanics problems is presented, which is useful in situations where the evolution of the Hamiltonian is slow. The state of a system which starts in an instantaneous eigenstate of the initial Hamiltonian is written as a power series which has a straightforward diagrammatic representation. Each term of the series corresponds to a sequence of "adiabatic" evolutions, during which the system remains in an instantaneous eigenstate of the Hamiltonian, punctuated by transitions from one state to another. The first term of this series is the standard adiabatic evolution, the next is the well-known first correction to it, and subsequent terms can be written down essentially by inspection. Although the final result is perhaps not terribly surprising, it seems to be not widely known, and the interpretation is new, as far as we know. Application of the method to the adiabatic approximation is given, and some discussion of the validity of this approximation is presented.
MacKenzie Richard
Marcotte Etienne
Paquette H.
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