Landau-Zener tunneling for dephasing Lindblad evolutions
Quantum Physics
2010-03-30 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We derive an analog of the Landau-Zener adiabatic tunneling formula for an open, two-level system coupled to a memoryless, dephasing bath. The derivation rests on a geometric view of the spectral subspaces as adiabatic invariants.
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@article{arxiv.0912.4640,
title = {Landau-Zener tunneling for dephasing Lindblad evolutions},
author = {J. E. Avron and M. Fraas and G. M. Graf and P. Grech},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.4640},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
9 pages, 1 figure, references and proof of eq.(22) added