Comments on the adiabatic theorem

DOI10.1142/S0217751X18501403MaRDI QIDQ4962597zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitrii A. Trunin

Publication date 5 November 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04856

zbMATH Keywords

adiabatic theoremIR divergenceKeldysh formalismperturbation theoryquantum mechanicsscalar field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Adiabatic invariants for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H11) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30)

Abstract: We consider the simplest example of a nonstationary quantum system which is quantum mechanical oscillator with varying frequency and $lambdaph{i}^4$ self-interaction. We calculate loop corrections to the Keldysh, retarded/advanced propagators and vertices using Schwinger--Keldysh diagrammatic technique and show that there is no physical secular growth of the loop corrections in the cases of constant and adiabatically varying frequency. This fact corresponds to the well-known adiabatic theorem in quantum mechanics. However, in the case of non-adiabatically varying frequency we obtain strong IR corrections to the Keldysh propagator which come from the `sunset' diagrams, grow with time indefinetely and indicate energy pumping into the system. It reveals itself via the change in time of the level population and of the anomalous quantum average.

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