Complex time method for quantum dynamics when an exceptional point is encircled in the parameter space

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2022.168939MaRDI QIDQ2159266zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Petra Ruth Kaprálová-Žďánská

Publication date 29 July 2022

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14473

zbMATH Keywords

bound-to-resonance transitioncomplex time methodexceptional point encirclinglinearly chirped Gaussian pulsePuiseux expansionrapid adiabatic passagetransition point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex multiplication and moduli of abelian varieties (11G15) Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58) Transition functions, generators and resolvents (60J35) Adiabatic invariants for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H11) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: We revisit the complex time method for the application to quantum dynamics as an exceptional point is encircled in the parameter space of the Hamiltonian. The basic idea of the complex time method is using complex contour integration to perform the first-order adiabatic perturbation integral. In this way, the quantum dynamical problem is transformed to a study of singularities in the complex time plane -- transition points -- which represent complex degeneracies of the adiabatic Hamiltonian as the time-dependent parameters defining the encircling contour are analytically continued to complex plane. As an underlying illustration of the approach we discuss a switch between Rabi oscillations and rapid adiabatic passage which occurs upon the encircling of an exceptional point in a special time-symmetric case.

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