Published May 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Unitary time-dependent superconvergent technique for pulse-driven quantum dynamics

  • 1. Laboratoire de Photophysique Moleculaire du CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud, Batiment 210, Campus d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex (France)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique de l'Universite de Bourgogne, UMR CNRS 5027, Boite Postale 47870, 21078 Dijon (France)
  • 3. Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Code Postal 231, 1050 Brussels (Belgium)

Description

We present a superconvergent Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser type of perturbation theory for time-dependent Hamiltonians. It is strictly unitary upon truncation at an arbitrary order and not restricted to periodic or quasiperiodic Hamiltonians. Moreover, for pulse-driven systems we construct explicitly the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser transformations involved in the iterative procedure. The technique is illustrated on a two-level model perturbed by a pulsed interaction for which we obtain convergence all the way from the sudden regime to the opposite adiabatic regime

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
67
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 052505-052505.9
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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(c) 2003 The American Physical Society