Landau-zener transitions in a multilevel system: An exact result

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5 A, 2004, Pages

  Shytov, A V ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

ADIABATIC APPROXIMATION; LANDAU-ZENER TRANSITIONS; TRANSITION AMPLITUDES; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 42749107881     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.052708     Document Type: Article

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