Magnus expansion for a chirped quantum two-level system
Quantum Physics
2018-09-12 v1 Quantum Gases
Atomic Physics
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Abstract
We derive a Magnus expansion for a frequency chirped quantum two-level system. We obtain a time-independent effective Hamiltonian which generates a stroboscopic time evolution. At lowest order the according dynamics is identical to results from using a rotating wave approximation. We determine, furthermore, also the next higher order corrections within our expansion scheme in correspondence to the Bloch-Siegert shifts for harmonically driven systems. Importantly, our scheme can be extended to more complicated systems, i.e. even many-body systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1806.02738,
title = {Magnus expansion for a chirped quantum two-level system},
author = {Peter Nalbach and Vicente Leyton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.02738},
year = {2018}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure