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The adiabatic approximation in open systems is formulated through the effective Hamiltonian approach. By introducing an ancilla, we embed the open system dynamics into a non-Hermitian quantum dynamics of a composite system, the adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. X. Yi , D. M. Tong , L. C. Kwek , C. H. OH

The adiabatic theorem states that if we prepare a quantum system in one of the instantaneous eigenstates then the quantum number is an adiabatic invariant and the state at a later time is equivalent to the instantaneous eigenstate at that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Pati , A. K. Rajagopal

We provide rigorous bounds for the error of the adiabatic approximation of quantum mechanics under four sources of experimental error: perturbations in the initial condition, systematic time-dependent perturbations in the Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael J. O'Hara , Dianne P. O'Leary

We present an analysis of the adiabatic approximation to understand when it applies, in view of the recent criticisms and studies for the validity of the adiabatic theorem. We point out that this approximation is just the leading order of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 Marco Frasca

Adiabaticity occurs when, during its evolution, a physical system remains in the instantaneous eigenstate of the hamiltonian. Unfortunately, existing results, such as the quantum adiabatic theorem based on a slow down evolution (H(epsilon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-25 Daniel Comparat

The viability of adiabatic quantum computation depends on the slow evolution of the Hamiltonian. The adiabatic switching theorem provides an asymptotic series for error estimates in $1/T$, based on the lowest non-zero derivative of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Thomas D. Cohen , Andrew Li , Hyunwoo Oh , Maneesha Sushama Pradeep

It is known that for multi-level time-dependent quantum systems one can construct superadiabatic representations in which the coupling between separated levels is exponentially small in the adiabatic limit. For a family of two-state systems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Volker Betz , Stefan Teufel

An explicit proof is developed to reinforce the accuracy of the quantum adiabatic theorem in its original form without any inconsistency and/or violation. Based on this proof, we discuss physical implications that give rise to the violation…

General Physics · Physics 2010-05-11 Andrew Das Arulsamy

The consistency of quantum adiabatic theorem has been doubted recently. It is shown in the present paper that the difference between the adiabatic solution and the exact solution to the Schrodinger equation with a slowly changing driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Zhaoyan Wu , Hui Yang

This paper is devoted to a generalisation of the quantum adiabatic theorem to a nonlinear setting. We consider a Hamiltonian operator which depends on the time variable and on a finite number of parameters and acts on a separable Hilbert…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-16 Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer , Alain Joye

In this paper, we note that there are two different types of inconsistencies of quantum adiabatic theorem in work of K. P. Marzlin and B. C. Sanders [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 160408, 2004], MS inconsistency and MS counterexample. Nevertheless,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-08 Yong Tao

The adiabatic approximation exhibits wide applicability in quantum mechanics, providing a simple approach for nontransitional dynamics in quantum systems governed by slowly varying time-dependent Hamiltonians. However, the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Alan C. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy

Quantum control could be implemented by varying the system Hamiltonian. According to adiabatic theorem, a slowly changing Hamiltonian can approximately keep the system at the ground state during the evolution if the initial state is a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Yu Pan , Zibo Miao , Nina H. Amini , Valery Ugrinovskii , Matthew R. James

A new and intuitive perturbative approach to time-dependent quantum mechanics problems is presented, which is useful in situations where the evolution of the Hamiltonian is slow. The state of a system which starts in an instantaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. MacKenzie , E. Marcotte , H. Paquette

The simulation of adiabatic evolution has deep connections with Adiabatic Quantum Computation, the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and adiabatic state preparation. Here we address the error analysis problem in quantum simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Changhao Yi

It is shown where the proof of "inconsistency in the application of the adiabatic theorem" goes wrong.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhaoyan Wu , Li Zheng , Hui Yang

We present straightforward proofs of estimates used in the adiabatic approximation. The gap dependence is analyzed explicitly. We apply the result to interpolating Hamiltonians of interest in quantum computing.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-08 Sabine Jansen , Mary-Beth Ruskai , Ruedi Seiler

While it is well-known that every nearly-periodic Hamiltonian system possesses an adiabatic invariant, extant methods for computing terms in the adiabatic invariant series are inefficient. The most popular method involves the heavy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 J. W. Burby , J. Squire

Workhorse theories throughout all of physics derive effective Hamiltonians to describe slow time evolution, even though low-frequency modes are actually coupled to high-frequency modes. Such effective Hamiltonians are accurate because of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Lukas Gilz , Eike P. Thesing , James R. Anglin

The adiabatic theorem shows that the instantaneous eigenstate is a good approximation of the exact solution for a quantum system in adiabatic evolution. One may therefore expect that the geometric phase calculated by using the eigenstate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. M. Tong , K. Singh , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Oh