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Low-frequency spectroscopy for quantum multi-level systems

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-11-28 v2 Atomic Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

A periodically driven quantum system with avoided-level crossing experiences both non-adiabatic transitions and wave-function phase changes. These result in coherent interference fringes in the system's occupation probabilities. For qubits, with repelling energy levels, such interference, named after Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg-Majorana, displays arc-shaped resonance lines. We demonstrate that in the case of a multi-level system with an avoided-level crossing of the two lower levels, the shape of the resonances can change from convex arcs to concave heart-shaped and harp-shaped resonance lines. In this way, the shape of such resonance fringes is defined by the whole spectrum, providing insight on the slow-frequency system spectroscopy. As a particular example, we consider this for valley-orbit silicon quantum dots.

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@article{arxiv.1809.05902,
  title  = {Low-frequency spectroscopy for quantum multi-level systems},
  author = {S. N. Shevchenko and A. I. Ryzhov and Franco Nori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.05902},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 pages, 7 figures

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