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

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2022.168939zbMATH Open1500.81033arXiv2110.14473OpenAlexW4283379721MaRDI QIDQ2159266FDOQ2159266

Authors: Petra Ruth Kaprálová-Žďánská 

Publication date: 29 July 2022

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Puiseux expansiontransition pointrapid adiabatic passagebound-to-resonance transitioncomplex time methodexceptional point encirclinglinearly chirped Gaussian pulse

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) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Adiabatic invariants for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H11)

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