On the adiabatic theorem when eigenvalues dive into the continuum

DOI10.1142/S0129055X18500113zbMATH Open1392.81123arXiv1612.02354MaRDI QIDQ4569653FDOQ4569653

Authors: Arne Jensen, Hans Konrad Knörr, Gheorghe Nenciu, Horia D. Cornean 

Publication date: 27 June 2018

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a reduced two-channel model of an atom consisting of a quantum dot coupled to an open scattering channel described by a three-dimensional Laplacian. We are interested in the survival probability of a bound state when the dot energy varies smoothly and adiabatically in time. The initial state corresponds to a discrete eigenvalue which dives into the continuous spectrum and re-emerges from it as the dot energy is varied in time and finally returns to its initial value. Our main result is that for a large class of couplings, the survival probability of this bound state vanishes in the adiabatic limit. At the end of the paper we present a short outlook on how our method may be extended to cover other classes of Hamiltonians; details will be given elsewhere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02354

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zbMATH Keywords

resolvent expansionadiabatic limitpropagation estimatesFeshbach methodmesoscopic transportadiabatic pair creationgapless adiabatic theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Atomic physics (81V45) Quantum dots, waveguides, ratchets, etc. (81Q37) Adiabatic invariants for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H11)

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