Generating shortcuts to adiabaticity in quantum and classical dynamics
Quantum Physics
2015-06-16 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Classical Physics
Abstract
Transitionless quantum driving achieves adiabatic evolution in a hurry, using a counter-diabatic Hamiltonian to stifle non-adiabatic transitions. Here this strategy is cast in terms of a generator of adiabatic transport, leading to a classical analogue: dissipationless classical driving. For the single-particle piston, this approach yields simple and exact expressions for both the classical and quantal counter-diabatic terms. These results are further generalized to even-power-law potentials in one degree of freedom.
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@article{arxiv.1305.4967,
title = {Generating shortcuts to adiabaticity in quantum and classical dynamics},
author = {Christopher Jarzynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4967},
year = {2015}
}
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