STABILIZING QUANTUM METASTABLE STATES IN A TIME-PERIODIC POTENTIAL

DOI10.1142/S0217979207045499MaRDI QIDQ3504045zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Choon-Lin Ho, Chung-Chieh Lee

Publication date 11 June 2008

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2205

zbMATH Keywords

Floquet formalismquantum metastabilitytime-periodic potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82B35)

Abstract: In this talk we present a model to demonstrate how time-periodic potential can be used to manipulate quantum metastability of a system. We study metastability of a particle trapped in a well with a time-periodically oscillating barrier in the Floquet formalism. It is shown that the oscillating barrier causes the system to decay faster in general. However, avoided crossings of metastable states can occur with the less stable states crossing over to the more stable ones. If in the static well there exists a bound state, then it is possible to stabilize a metastable state by adiabatically increasing the oscillating frequency of the barrier so that the unstable state eventually cross-over to the stable bound state. It is also found that increasing the amplitude of the oscillating field may change a direct crossing of states into an avoided one. Hence, one can manipulate the stability of different states in a quantum potential by a combination of adiabatic changes of the frequency and the amplitude of the oscillating barrier.

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