Duality in Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg potential curve crossing
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It is pointed out that there exists an interesting strong and weak duality in the Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg potential curve crossing. A reliable perturbation theory can thus be formulated in the both limits of weak and strong interactions. It is shown that main characteristics of the potential crossing phenomena such as the Landau-Zener formula including its numerical coefficient are well-described by simple (time-independent) perturbation theory without referring to Stokes phenomena. A kink-like topological object appears in the ``magnetic'' picture, which is responsible for the absence of the coupling constant in the prefactor of the Landau-Zener formula. It is also shown that quantum coherence in a double well potential is generally suppressed by the effect of potential curve crossing, which is analogous to the effect of Ohmic dissipation on quantum coherence.
7 pages, 2 figures. LaTeX with espcrc2.sty and epsbox.sty. Invited talk presented at 7th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, August 19-23, 1997, Beijing, China (to be published in the Proceedings)
7 pages, 2 figures. LaTeX with espcrc2.sty and epsbox.sty. Invited talk presented at 7th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, August 19-23, 1997, Beijing, China (to be published in the Proceedings)