English

Designing adiabatic time-evolution from high frequency bichromatic sources

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2020-09-21 v1

Abstract

We investigate the quantum dynamics of a two-level system driven by a bichromatic field, using a non-perturbative analysis. We make special emphasis in the case of two large frequencies, where the Magnus expansion can fail, and in the case of a large and a small frequency, where resonances can dominate. In the first case, we show that two large frequencies can be combined to produce an effective adiabatic evolution. In the second case, we show that high frequency terms (which naturally arise as corrections to the adiabatic evolution obtained in the first case) can be used to produce a highly tunable adiabatic evolution over the whole Bloch sphere, controlled by multi-photon resonances.

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@article{arxiv.2008.10750,
  title  = {Designing adiabatic time-evolution from high frequency bichromatic sources},
  author = {Álvaro Gómez-León and Gloria Platero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10750},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

5 pages, 8 figures and Appendix. To be published in Physical Review Research

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