Quantum adiabatic theorem with energy gap regularization

N. B. Ilyin

Teoretičeskaâ i matematičeskaâ fizika, Tome 211 (2022) no. 1, pp. 121-135

Résumé

The dynamics of a nonstationary quantum system whose Hamiltonian explicitly depends on time is called adiabatic if a system state that is an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian at the initial instant of time remains close to this eigenstate throughout the evolution. The degree of such closeness depends on the smallness of the parameter that determines the rate of change of the Hamiltonian. It is usually believed that one of the factors playing a decisive role for the stability of the adiabatic dynamics is the structure of the spectrum of the Hamiltonian. As the quantum adiabatic theorem states in its usual formulation, deviations from the adiabatic evolution can be estimated from above by the ratio of the rate of change of the Hamiltonian to the minimum distance between the energy of the state that approximates the adiabatic dynamics and the rest of the spectrum of the Hamiltonian. We analyze this dependence and prove theorems showing that the efficiency of the adiabatic approximation is more influenced by the rate of change of the Hamiltonian eigenvectors than by the dynamics of the spectrum. In a vast majority of physically meaningful cases, it turns out that controlling the dynamics of eigenvectors is sufficient for ensuring the adiabaticity, regardless of the dynamics of the spectrum as such.

Détail

Keywords: quantum adiabatic theorem, energy gap, gauge adiabatic potential.

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