Statistical mechanics of Floquet systems: The pervasive problem of near degeneracies

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Hone, Daniel W ^a,b   Ketzmerick, Roland ^c   Kohn, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOIDED CROSSINGS; BORN-MARKOV APPROXIMATION; DENSITY MATRIX; DRIVEN SYSTEM; DRIVING FREQUENCIES; ENERGY EIGENSTATES; EXPLICIT FORM; FINITE FREQUENCIES; FINITE NUMBER; FLOQUET; FLOQUET STATE; FLOQUET SYSTEMS; HEAT BATH; MATRIX; MEMORY EFFECTS; QUASI-ENERGY; REDUCED-DENSITY MATRIX; SPLITTINGS; STATE SPACE; SYSTEM-BATH COUPLING; UNDRIVEN SYSTEMS;

PATHOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 67650935000     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.051129     Document Type: Article

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