Quantum integrability in the multistate Landau-Zener problem

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/24/245303zbMATH Open1315.81052arXiv1412.4926OpenAlexW3100117067MaRDI QIDQ5261658FDOQ5261658

Emil A. Yuzbashyan, Aniket Patra

Publication date: 6 July 2015

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze Hamiltonians linear in the time variable for which the multistate Landau-Zener problem is known to have an exact solution. We show that they either belong to families of mutually commuting Hamiltonians polynomial in time or reduce to the 2 x 2 Landau-Zener problem, which is considered trivially integrable. The former category includes the equal slope, bow-tie, and generalized bow-tie models. For each of these models we explicitly construct the corresponding families of commuting matrices. The equal slope model is a member of an integrable family that consists of the maximum possible number (for a given matrix size) of commuting matrices linear in time. The bow-tie model belongs to a previously unknown, similarly maximal family of quadratic commuting matrices. We thus conjecture that quantum integrability understood as the existence of nontrivial parameter-dependent commuting partners is a necessary condition for the Landau-Zener solvability. Descendants of the 2 x 2 Landau-Zener Hamiltonian are e.g. general SU(2) and SU(1,1) Hamiltonians, time-dependent linear chain, linear, nonlinear, and double oscillators. We explicitly obtain solutions to all these Landau-Zener problems from the 2 x 2 case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4926

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zbMATH Keywords

mathematical physicsstatistical physicsquantum integrabilitymesoscopic physicscold gasLandau-Zener problemsolid-state artificial atom

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Applications of Lie algebras and superalgebras to integrable systems (17B80)

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