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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