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In a time-orbiting-potential magnetic trap the neutral atoms are confined by means of an inhomogeneous magnetic field superimposed to an uniform rotating one. We perform an analytic study of the atomic motion by taking into account the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Franzosi , Andrea Spinelli , Bruno Zambon , Ennio Arimondo

Geometric phase that manifests itself in number of optic and nuclear experiments is shown to be a useful tool for realization of quantum computations in so called holonomic quantum computer model (HQCM). This model is considered as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-04 A. E. Shalyt-Margolin , V. I. Strazhev , A. Ya. Tregubovich

The behavior displayed by a quantum system when it is perturbed by a series of von Neumann measurements along time is analyzed. Because of the similarity between this general process with giving a deck of playing cards a shuffle, here it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 A. S. Sanz , C. Sanz-Sanz , T. Gonzalez-Lezana , O. Roncero , S. Miret-Artes

According to the quantum Zeno effect, the frequent observations of a system can dramatically slow down its dynamical evolution. We show that the Zeno dynamics is the result of projective measurements among quantum states which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-19 Augusto Smerzi

Quantum Zeno effect shows that frequent observations can slow down or even stop the unitary time evolution of an unstable quantum system. This effect can also be regarded as a physical consequence of the the statistical indistinguishability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

The evolution of a driven quantum system is said to be adiabatic whenever the state of the system stays close to an instantaneous eigenstate of its time-dependent Hamiltonian. The celebrated quantum adiabatic theorem ensures that such pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Nikolai Il`in , Anastasia Aristova , Oleg Lychkovskiy

We establish a set of nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions in the Ising model driven under monochromatic nonadiabatic modulation of the transverse field. We show that besides the Ising-like critical behavior, the system exhibits an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-03 V. M. Bastidas , C. Emary , G. Schaller , T. Brandes

We show a method to accelerate quantum adiabatic dynamics of wavefunctions under electro-magnetic field by developing the previous theory (Masuda & Nakamura 2008 and 2010). Firstly we investigate the orbital dynamics of a charged particle.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-26 Shumpei Masuda , Katsuhiro Nakamura

We study the coexistence of the quantum Zeno effect and non-Markovianity for a system decaying in a structured bosonic environment and subject to a control field. The interaction with the environment induces decay from the excited to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Antti Karlsson , Francesco Francica , Jyrki Piilo , Francesco Plastina

The dynamics of a quantum phase transition is inextricably woven with the formation of excitations, as a result of the critical slowing down in the neighborhood of the critical point. We design a transitionless quantum driving through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 Adolfo del Campo , Marek M. Rams , Wojciech H. Zurek

A quantum system constrained to a degenerate energy eigenspace can undergo a nontrival time evolution upon adiabatic driving, described by a non-Abelian Berry phase. This type of dynamics may provide logical gates in quantum computing that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Baksa Kolok , András Pályi

Quantum logic operations can be implemented using nonlinear phase shifts (the Kerr effect) or the quantum Zeno effect based on strong two-photon absorption. Both approaches utilize three-level atoms, where the upper level is tuned on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Hao You , J. D. Franson

A computation in adiabatic quantum computing is implemented by traversing a path of nondegenerate eigenstates of a continuous family of Hamiltonians. We introduce a method that traverses a discretized form of the path: At each step we apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 S. Boixo , E. Knill , R. D. Somma

The effect of inter-subsystem coupling on the adiabaticity of composite systems and that of its subsystems is investigated. Similar to the adiabatic evolution defined for pure states, non-transitional evolution for mixed states is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 X. X. Yi , H. T. Cui , Y. H. Lin , H. S. Song

A qubit driven by two incommensurate frequencies can mediate a quantised average energy current in the adiabatic limit. We show that non-adiabatic processes result in reversals of the energy current and corresponding oscillations in the net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Dominik Vuina , David M. Long , Phillip J. D. Crowley , Anushya Chandran

Keeping a quantum system in a given instantaneous eigenstate is a control problem with numerous applications, e.g., in quantum information processing. The problem is even more challenging in the setting of open quantum systems, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Jun Jing , Marcelo S. Sarandy , Daniel A. Lidar , Da-Wei Luo , Lian-Ao Wu

We introduce an adiabatic perturbation theory for quantum systems with degenerate energy spectra. This perturbative series enables one to rigorously establish conditions for the validity of the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Gustavo Rigolin , Gerardo Ortiz

Current generation quantum annealers have already proven to be successful problem-solvers. Yet, quantum annealing is still very much in its infancy, with suboptimal applicability. For instance, to date it is still an open question which…

Non-Abelian quantum holonomies, i.e., unitary state changes solely induced by geometric properties of a quantum system, have been much under focus in the physics community as generalizations of the Abelian Berry phase. Apart from being a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Kult , Johan Åberg , Erik Sjöqvist

Counterdiabatic driving emerges as a valuable technique for implementing shortcuts to adiabaticity protocols, enhancing quantum technology applications. In this context, counterdiabatic quantum computing represents a new paradigm with the…