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View SchemaIs the Adiabatic Approximation Inconsistent?
| Authors | Solomon Duki, H. Mathur, Onuttom Narayan |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0510131 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510131 |
Abstract
Marzlin and Sanders \cite{marzlin} have shown rigorously that the adiabatic approximation can be very inaccurate when applied to a Hamiltonian $H(t)$ that generates the evolution $U^{\dagger} (t)$ even if it gives an excellent approximation to the evolution $U(t)$ generated by a dual Hamiltonian $h(t)$. We show that this is not inconsistent with the adiabatic theorem and find that in general even if $h(t)$ satisfies the conditions of the adiabatic theorem, $H(t)$ will likely violate those conditions.
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