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Butterfly hysteresis curves generated by adiabatic Landau-Zener transitions
2006
Butterfly hysteresis curves observed in dynamical magnetization measurements on systems of low-spin magnetic molecules such as ${\mathrm{V}}_{15}$ can be explained by the interplay of adiabatic Landau-Zener transitions and relaxation. We investigate the magnetization dynamics analytically in the basis of the adiabatic energy levels of the spin $1∕2$, to a qualitative accordance with experimental observations. In particular, reversible behavior is found near zero field, the corresponding susceptibility being bounded by the equilibrium and adiabatic susceptibilities.
Motor strategies and adiabatic invariants: The case of rhythmic motion in parabolic flights
2021
The role of gravity in human motor control is at the same time obvious and difficult to isolate. It can be assessed by performing experiments in variable gravity. We propose that adiabatic invariant theory may be used to reveal nearly-conserved quantities in human voluntary rhythmic motion, an individual being seen as a complex time-dependent dynamical system with bounded motion in phase-space. We study an explicit realization of our proposal: An experiment in which we asked participants to perform $\infty-$ shaped motion of their right arm during a parabolic flight, either at self-selected pace or at a metronome's given pace. Gravity varied between $0$ and $1.8$ $g$ during a parabola. We c…
A Coherent Master Equation for active mode locking in lasers
2015
We present the derivation of a new master equation for active mode locking in lasers that fully takes into account the coherent effects of the light matter interaction through a peculiar adiabatic elimination technique. The coherent effects included in our model could be relevant to describe properly mode-locked semiconductor lasers where the standard Haus’ Master Equation predictions show some discrepancy with respect to the experimental results and can be included in the modelling of other mode locking techniques too.
Adiabatic eigenflows in a vertical porous channel
2014
AbstractThe existence of an infinite class of buoyant flows in a vertical porous channel with adiabatic and impermeable boundary walls, called adiabatic eigenflows, is discussed. A uniform heat source within the saturated medium is assumed, so that a stationary state is possible with a net vertical through-flow convecting away the excess heat. The simple isothermal flow with uniform velocity profile is a special adiabatic eigenflow if the power supplied by the heat source is zero. The linear stability analysis of the adiabatic eigenflows is carried out analytically. It is shown that these basic flows are unstable. The only exception, when the power supplied by the heat source is zero, is th…
Many-body quantum dynamics by adiabatic path-integral molecular dynamics: Disordered Frenkel Kontorova models
2005
The spectral density of quantum mechanical Frenkel Kontorova chains moving in disordered, external potentials is investigated by means of path-integral molecular dynamics. If the second moment of the embedding potential is well defined (roughness exponent ), there is one regime in which the chain is pinned (large masses of chain particles) and one in which it is unpinned (small ). If the embedding potential can be classified as a random walk on large length scales ( ), then the chain is always pinned irrespective of the value of . For , two phonon-like branches appear in the spectra.
Adiabatic charge pumping in carbon nanotube quantum dots.
2008
We investigate charge pumping in carbon nanotube quantum dots driven by the electric field of a surface acoustic wave. We find that, at small driving amplitudes, the pumped current reverses polarity as the conductance is tuned through a Coulomb blockade peak using a gate electrode. We study the behavior as a function of wave amplitude, frequency, and direction and develop a model in which our results can be understood as resulting from adiabatic charge redistribution between the leads and quantum dots on the nanotube.
Non-adiabatic manipulation of slow-light solitons
2005
We provide an exact analytic description of decelerating, stopping and reaccelerating optical solitons in atomic media in the non-adiabatic regime. Dynamical control over slow-light pulses is realized via a nonlinear interplay between the solitons and the controlling field generated by an auxiliary laser. This leads to recovery of optical information. We discuss physically interesting features of our solution, which are in good agreement with recent experiments.
Efficient adiabatic tracking of driven quantum nonlinear systems
2013
We derive a technique of robust and efficient adiabatic passage for a driven nonlinear quantum system, describing the transfer to a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate from an atomic one by external fields. The pulse ingredients are obtained by tracking the dynamics derived from a Hamiltonian formulation, in the adiabatic limit. This leads to a nonsymmetric and nonmonotonic chirp. The efficiency of the method is demonstrated in terms of classical phase space, more specifically with the underlying fixed points and separatrices. We also prove the crucial property that this nonlinear system does not have any solution leading exactly to a complete transfer. It can only be reached asymptotically …
Collective mass parameters and linear response techniques in three-dimensional grids
1984
We discuss four prescriptions for evaluating a collective mass parameter suitable for translations, rotations and large amplitude collective motions. These are the adiabatic time dependent Hartree-Fock theory (ATDHF) and the generator coordinate method (GCM), both with and without curvature corrections. As practical example we consider the16O+16O collision using a recently developed density dependent interaction with direct Yukawa and Coulomb terms. We present a fast iteration scheme for solving the linear response equation in a three-dimensional coordinate or momentum space grid. As test cases we consider the rotational and translational inertia parameters for various distances between the…
Adiabatic cooling of antiprotons in a Penning trap
1993
An antiproton cloud cooled at 4.2 K in a Penning trap can be further cooled by adiabatic reduction of the trap magnetic and electric fields. It will be shown that the temperature can be reduced by two orders of magnitude. This cooling method may be useful to obtain ultra-low energy antiprotons for the measurement of their gravitational properties and the production of ultra-low energy antihydrogen atoms.