Supersymmetric manipulation of quasienergy states. Application to the Berry phase

Abstract

Time-dependent supersymmetry allows one to delete quasienergy levels for time-periodic Hamiltonians and to create new ones. We illustrate this by examining an exactly solvable model related to the simple harmonic oscillator with a time-varying frequency. For an interesting nonharmonic example we present the change of the Berry phase due to a supersymmetry transformation.

4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRL