Adiabatic Response to an Oscillatory Field
Ralph H. Young, Walter J. Deal
Source abstract
The behavior of a quantum-mechanical system with a slowly modulated oscillatory Hamiltonian is characterized by an adiabatic theorem similar to that for a system with a slowly changing ``static'' Hamiltonian. Quasiperiodic states—solutions of the instantaneous Schrödinger equation with an oscillatory Hamiltonian—play the same role as eigenfunctions of the instantaneous Hamiltonian do in an adiabatic theorem for a nearly static Hamiltonian. As an example, the theorem is used to establish the correct wavefunction to be used in computing the refractive index of atomic hydrogen.
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