Quantum adiabatic evolution with energy-degeneracy levels
arXiv:1510.08645 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.93.012116
Abstract
A classical-kind phase-space formalism is developed to address the tiny intrinsic dynamical deviation from what is predicted by Wilczek-Zee theorem during quantum adiabatic evolution on degeneracy levels. In this formalism, the Hilbert space and the aggregate of degenerate eigenstates become the classical-kind phase-space and a high-dimensional subspace in the phase-space, respectively. Compared with the previous same study by a different method, the current result is qualitatively different in that the first-order deviation derived here is always perpendicular to the degeneracy subspace. A tripod scheme Hamiltonian with two degenerate dark states is employed to illustrate the adiabatic deviation with degeneracy levels.
7 pages, 2 figures
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