Geometric Floquet Condition for Quantum Adiabaticity
Abstract
Quantum adiabaticity is the evolution of a quantum system that remains close to an instantaneous eigenstate of a time-dependent Hamiltonian. Using Floquet formalism, we derive a rigorous sufficient condition for adiabaticity in closed, finite-dimensional periodically driven systems that is valid for arbitrarily many driving periods. The condition is stroboscopic and geometric, depending only on single-cycle information: the Fubini--Study length of the instantaneous eigenray and a quasienergy-separation measure extracted from the Floquet operator. We also formulate a state-targeted refinement that reduces conservativeness when only one adiabatic branch is relevant. Rather than synthesizing control pulses, the result provides a certification criterion for a given periodic protocol. We illustrate the criterion and contrast it with conventional instantaneous-gap conditions in three representative examples.
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@article{arxiv.2302.03918,
title = {Geometric Floquet Condition for Quantum Adiabaticity},
author = {Jie Gu and X. -G. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.03918},
year = {2026}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures