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Adiabatic transitions in a two-level system coupled to a free Boson reservoir

Mathematical Physics 2020-10-28 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We consider a time-dependent two-level quantum system interacting with a free Boson reservoir. The coupling is energy conserving and depends slowly on time, as does the system Hamiltonian, with a common adiabatic parameter ε\varepsilon. Assuming that the system and reservoir are initially decoupled, with the reservoir in equilibrium at temperature T0T\ge 0, we compute the transition probability from one eigenstate of the two-level system to the other eigenstate as a function of time, in the regime of small ε\varepsilon and small coupling constant λ\lambda. We analyse the deviation from the adiabatic transition probability obtained in absence of the reservoir.

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@article{arxiv.2001.10097,
  title  = {Adiabatic transitions in a two-level system coupled to a free Boson reservoir},
  author = {Alain Joye and Marco Merkli and Dominique Spehner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.10097},
  year   = {2020}
}