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Adiabatic Product Expansion

Quantum Physics 2009-10-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The time-evolution operator for an explicitly time-dependent Hamiltonian is expressed as the product of a sequence of unitary operators. These are obtained by successive time-dependent unitary transformations of the Hilbert space followed by the adiabatic approximation at each step. The resulting adiabatic product expansion yields a generalization of the quantum adiabatic approximation. Furthermore, it leads to an infinite class of exactly solvable models.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9606032,
  title  = {Adiabatic Product Expansion},
  author = {Ali Mostafazadeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9606032},
  year   = {2009}
}

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