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Title: Phase coherence and nonadiabatic transition at a level crossing in a periodically driven two-level system

Journal Article · · Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States)
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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980 (Japan)

Some aspects of the Landau-Zener-type transition of a periodically driven two-level system with dephasing are clarified. Under the condition that the transition is well localized around the level-crossing region, the transition dynamics for the typical cases is described by simple formulas; namely, by the transfer-matrix method for the long-range coherence, by the application of the incoherent Landau-Zener formula for the short-range coherence, and by the strong-dephasing formula in the limit of complete decoherence.

OSTI ID:
6872360
Journal Information:
Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States), Vol. 47:15; ISSN 0163-1829
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English