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A perturbative expansion of the evolution operator associated with time-dependent quantum Hamiltonians

arXiv:quant-ph/0404056

Abstract

A novel expansion -- which generalizes Magnus expansion -- of the evolution operator associated with a (in general, time-dependent) perturbed Hamiltonian is introduced. It is shown that it has a wide range of possible solutions that can be fitted according to computational convenience. The time-independent and the adiabatic case are studied in detail.

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