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Qm Driven Dynamics And Adiabatic Limits

1 · Prerequisites

2 · Summary

This page builds the framework's driven-dynamics models and their conditional statements: prescribed time-dependent energy families and their unitary two-time propagators in three declared regularity classes, the interaction picture, the Dyson truncation as an explicit finite-time error budget, the resonant transitions of two declared two-level drive models, and the slow-family adiabatic protocols with their 1/T leakage estimates.

The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models adopts the driven-dynamics reading of clause (iv) of the autonomous-dynamics postulate P4: a prescribed self-adjoint family t↦H(t) in the bounded norm-continuous class, the bounded-control class H(t)=H0+V(t) or the common-domain class, carried by a unitary two-time propagator, with the evolved-preparation and outcome-law readings, the energy-basis transition amplitudes and the two declared two-level drive models (circular and linear polarization). The interaction picture of the declared driven model: readings, the interaction propagator and picture equivalence of outcome laws fixes the interaction-picture readings and states the picture equivalence of outcome laws. The mathematical rotating-frame identities are proved first in The two-level rotating frame: conjugation identities, the transformed families and invariance of the level populations, a pure linear-algebra lemma for the frame R(t)=cos⁡(ωt/2)I+isin⁡(ωt/2)σz.

Dynamics comes next. The bounded norm-continuous driven model: unique unitary propagator, Dyson truncation budget and outcome-law error proves well-posedness and the Dyson truncation budget in the bounded norm-continuous class, and converts the propagator error into a bound on Born outcome probabilities. The bounded-control driven model: mild propagator, interaction-picture evolution and equivalence of the two readings proves the mild propagator, the interaction-picture evolution and the equivalence of the two readings in the bounded-control class, and The common-domain driven model: strong propagator with domain invariance, and the driven oscillator as its declared instance proves the strong propagator with domain invariance in the common-domain class and verifies the driven oscillator Hosc−f(t)Q as its declared instance. First-order transition amplitudes for a bounded control: Dyson remainder, the sinusoidal drive with its co- and counter-rotating parts, and the outcome-probability error gives the first-order transition amplitude with its explicit Dyson remainder, evaluates the sinusoidal drive into co-rotating and counter-rotating parts with their bounds, and controls the outcome probability by the amplitude error.

The resonant transitions are then stated for the declared two-level models. The circularly driven two-level model: exact rotating-frame reduction, Rabi populations, resonance and inversion times reduces the circular drive exactly to the constant matrix ℏ2(Δσz+Ω1σx) and proves the Rabi populations with resonance, pi-pulse and return times, while The linearly driven two-level model: rotating-wave approximation with an explicit finite-time error contract and the averaged Rabi populations proves the rotating-wave error contract for the linear drive, bounding the rotating-frame propagator against the averaged model and the exact population against the averaged Rabi probability.

Finally, The declared adiabatic protocol model: slow parameter, followed spectral subspace, uniform gap and leakage probability declares the slow-family protocol with its followed spectral subspace, uniform gap and leakage probability; Finite-dimensional gapped protocol: the 1/T leakage estimate, the intertwining propagator and the Born leakage probability proves the finite-dimensional intertwining and the estimate ∥(I−P(s))UT(s)P(0)∥≤C/T whence the Born leakage is at most (C/T)2; and The slowly varying one-centre Coulomb source: verified uniform gap of the n-th level and the 1/T leakage estimate verifies the uniform gap of the n-th level of the one-centre Coulomb model along a prescribed C2 source-strength path and transfers the same estimate to the physical protocol duration. Scope and empirical status of the page: what is adopted, what is proved, and what is excluded records what the page adopts, proves and excludes, including its empirical status: no experiment, no measured frequency or rate, and no laboratory identification appears.

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4 · Definitions, postulates, theorems and proofs

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The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models

Physical scope

The driven-dynamics model of a declared system of the framework: a prescribed time-dependent family of self-adjoint energy operators in one of three declared regularity classes (bounded norm-continuous on a compact interval; a fixed self-adjoint part plus a strongly continuous bounded self-adjoint control; a common-domain C^1 family), the unitary two-time propagator declared to carry the state evolution, the reading of preparations and outcome laws at the running time, the energy-basis transition amplitudes and level populations, and the two declared two-level drive models (circular and linear polarization). The definition fixes terminology and readings only: it adopts the driven-evolution assumption as an additional model assumption beyond P4, and asserts no existence theorem (supplied by the cited mathematics in each class), no laboratory realization, no measurement, no open system, no equilibration and no empirical result.

Definition

(a) Framework data. Adopt the state and composition postulate P1, the observable and probability postulate P2 and the autonomous-dynamics postulate P4 (State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems, Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes, Autonomous dynamics postulate P4: self-adjoint generators and unitary evolution) for a declared system, in the state, sharp-observable and evolution readings of The state space of the framework: preparations, pure rays and density operators, The state space: density operators, pure and mixed states, and purity, Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework and Assigned energy observable, unitary flow and the two pictures of autonomous evolution; units are those of Dimensions, SI unit conventions and quantity types of the framework. Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice as the choice hypotheses of the cited mathematical suppliers (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice). The readings below are the reading of clause (iv) of P4 for the page's models; clause (iv) records that a prescribed time-dependent family is a different model assumption from the autonomous one, and clause (b) below adopts it.

(b) Prescribed energy family. As an additional model assumption of the pair, fix a nonempty compact interval I=[a,b]⊂R of physical times (seconds), the declared state space H of the system, a value ℏ>0 of the reduced Planck constant as in Dimensions, SI unit conventions and quantity types of the framework, and a prescribed family t↦H(t) of self-adjoint operators on H (Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators) in one of the following three regularity classes, whose hypotheses are part of the model declaration:

  • (i) Bounded norm-continuous class. D(H(t))=H for every t; each H(t)∈B(H) is self-adjoint (A bounded linear operator between normed spaces); t↦H(t) is norm-continuous on I (The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum); and K:=sup⁡t∈I∥H(t)∥/ℏ<∞.
  • (ii) Bounded-control class. H(t)=H0+V(t), where H0 is self-adjoint with domain D(H0)⊆H and V:I→B(H) is strongly continuous with self-adjoint values and ∥V(t)∥=v(t), v:=sup⁡t∈Iv(t)<∞.
  • (iii) Common-domain class. There is a dense linear subspace Y⊆H that is itself a Hilbert space continuously embedded in H (Hilbert space, for instance Y=D(H0) with the graph norm of a self-adjoint H0), with D(H(t))=Y for every t, each H(t) self-adjoint as an operator on H, and t↦H(t) of class C1(I;B(Y,H)).

The family, its class and its data are prescribed: no field equation, source model, back-reaction or feedback of the system on the source is assumed, and no claim is made that any laboratory arrangement realizes the family. The family is coupled to the system through the material hypotheses of the page or of the item that declares a specific model (for instance a magnetic-moment or electric-dipole coupling, or the external-source Coulomb family of the page's adiabatic models); the reading of H(t) as the energy of the declared system is a model assumption.

(c) The model's evolution. The driven model declares that the time evolution of the system between times s,t∈I is carried by a family U(t,s) of unitary operators on H with U(s,s)=I,U(t,r)=U(t,s)U(s,r)(r,s,t∈I),U(t,s)∗=U(s,t), jointly strongly continuous in (t,s), solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation on I in the sense of the class: in class (i) U is the unique norm-continuous solution of iℏ∂tU(t,s)=H(t)U(t,s) with U(s,s)=I constructed by the Dyson series of Norm Dyson series and uniqueness (whose hypothesis is exactly the norm-continuity of the bounded self-adjoint family); in class (ii) U is the mild propagator constructed in Strong bounded interaction picture, satisfying U(t,s)ψ=E(t−s)ψ−iℏ∫stE(t−r)V(r)U(r,s)ψ dr for every ψ∈H, with E(u)=e−iuH0/ℏ the autonomous flow of clause (b) of Assigned energy observable, unitary flow and the two pictures of autonomous evolution; in class (iii) U is the strong propagator of Common-domain nonautonomous evolution with physical generator A=H/ℏ, preserving Y, for which t↦U(t,s)y is C1 in H with iℏ∂tU(t,s)y=H(t)U(t,s)y for every y∈Y. In each class the cited item is what makes the declaration well posed: it constructs the family and proves uniqueness under the class hypotheses. The model asserts nothing beyond those hypotheses; in particular it asserts no invariant domain and no strong equation for H0-domain vectors in class (ii), and no common domain in classes (i) and (ii).

On a singleton interval I={a}, the evolution declaration consists only of U(a,a)=I; all differential assertions in these class readings apply only when a<b, with one-sided derivatives at the endpoints.

(d) State and outcome readings. The evolved preparation at time t of a preparation ρ specified at time s is ρ(t):=U(t,s)ρ(s)U(t,s)∗; it is a preparation of the model in the sense of The state space: density operators, pure and mixed states, and purity for every t, by unitarity of U(t,s) and Density operators and scalar spectral probability. A pure preparation [ψ(s)] evolves to the pure preparation [ψ(t)] with ψ(t):=U(t,s)ψ(s)≠0. The outcome law at time t of an assigned sharp observable (A,uA) (Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework) in that preparation is μρ(t)A, the reading of P2; the definition records the timing convention once and asserts nothing about how or when a record is produced.

(e) Energy-basis amplitudes and level populations. In class (ii), let (φj)j∈J be an orthonormal family in D(H0) with H0φj=Ejφj and Ej∈R (a complete orthonormal family of eigenvectors is not assumed here). For s≤t and labels i,j the transition amplitude from i at time s to j at time t is the scalar Aji(t,s):=eiEj(t−s)/ℏ ⟨U(t,s)φi,φj⟩, and the transition probability is pji(t,s):=∣Aji(t,s)∣2. If additionally Ej is a simple eigenvalue of H0 with spectral projection Pj=EH0({Ej}) onto Cφj, then the definition states, as the reading of P2, the identity pji(t,s)=μψ(t)H0({Ej})=∥EH0({Ej})ψ(t)∥2,ψ(t)=U(t,s)φi, which follows from the rank-one form of Pj and the normalization ∥φj∥=1; pji is the reading of the outcome probability of the value Ej of the assigned energy observable (H0,J) in the evolved preparation, and it is a property of the declared model, not a measured frequency.

(f) Declared two-level drive models. Let (σx,σy,σz) be the Pauli matrices of Finite spin matrices clause (e) acting on C2 in the orthonormal basis (e↑,e↓) (Real and complex inner product spaces, with the inner product linear in the first argument), let ω0,Ω1,ω∈R, and put H0:=ℏ2ω0σz (class (i) with I any compact interval). The circular two-level drive model is the class-(i) family Hc(t):=ℏ2(ω0σz+Ω1(cos⁡(ωt)σx+sin⁡(ωt)σy)), and the linear two-level drive model is the class-(i) family Hl(t):=ℏ2(ω0σz+Ω1cos⁡(ωt)σx). The real parameters ω0,Ω1,ω represent angular frequencies of dimension duration−1, read in s−1; their numerical values are expressed in that unit, so ωt is dimensionless and ℏω0 and ℏΩ1 have energy units; ω0 is the splitting frequency of the model (the level gap is ℏ∣ω0∣), ω the drive frequency, Ω1 the transverse coupling, and Δ:=ω0−ω the detuning. Populations of the level pair are the diagonal entries ⟨P∙ψ,ψ⟩ of the orthogonal projections P↑,P↓ onto Ce↑,Ce↓ in the evolved vector ψ(t). The two families are model data: no identification with a laboratory spin, molecule or field, and no relation of Ω1 to a field amplitude, is asserted; such an identification is a tested identification in the sense of P7.

(g) Status and scope. Clauses (b), (c), (f) are adopted model assumptions and readings; the existence and uniqueness of the propagator in each class is cited mathematics, not a consequence of P1, P2 or P4. The model asserts no open-system or environment coupling, no non-unitary reduced dynamics, no measurement or apparatus model, no thermalization or equilibration, no long-time limit and no empirical record; the identification of the family's parameters with laboratory fields and of the system with a laboratory sample is made, if at all, only in separately declared models with their own uncertainty.

Remarks

  • Why classes (i)-(iii) instead of one general theorem. A general unbounded time-dependent family requires a domain condition; classes (ii) and (iii) are the two standard sufficient regimes used on this page, and the bounded class (i) covers the finite-level models. Clause (iv) of P4 explicitly does not adopt a general unbounded family, so each class is declared with its own mathematics.
  • Amplitudes are not outcomes. The scalar Aji is a complex bookkeeping amplitude; the model's outcome probability is the Born number of clause (e). Global phases of the eigenvectors change Aji by a phase and leave pji unchanged.
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The interaction picture of the declared driven model: readings, the interaction propagator and picture equivalence of outcome laws

Physical scope

The interaction-picture readings of the declared driven model in the bounded-control class: the free-flow factor E(t) = exp(-itH0/hbar), the interaction state, interaction preparation and interaction propagator, the interaction-picture control V_I(t), the decomposition of the physical propagator, the agreement of the two pictures' outcome laws under the conjugate observable, and the agreement of energy-basis transition probabilities. The item fixes terminology and readings only; it adopts no assumption beyond the declared driven model, P1, P2 and the cited mathematics, and asserts no measurement, apparatus, detector or empirical result.

Definition

(a) Setting. Adopt the framework data and the declared driven model of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models in the bounded-control class of its clause (b)(ii): H is the model's state space (Hilbert space), H0 is self-adjoint on its exact dense domain D(H0) (Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators), V:I→B(H) is strongly continuous with self-adjoint values and v=sup⁡t∈I∥V(t)∥<∞ (A bounded linear operator between normed spaces, The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum), H(t)=H0+V(t) on D(H0), and U(t,s) is the mild propagator of clause (c)(ii) constructed in Strong bounded interaction picture. The readings of P1 and P2 are those of State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems, Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes, The state space: density operators, pure and mixed states, and purity and Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework; all times lie in I and are read in seconds as in Dimensions, SI unit conventions and quantity types of the framework. Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice as the choice hypotheses of the cited suppliers (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice).

(b) The free-flow factor. The free-flow factor of the model is the autonomous flow of the unperturbed part, E(t):=e−itH0/ℏ(t∈R), the reading of clause (b) of Assigned energy observable, unitary flow and the two pictures of autonomous evolution applied to the assigned energy observable (H0,J); it is a strongly continuous one-parameter unitary group on all real arguments. This auxiliary group supplies E(−t) and E(t−s) even when those arguments lie outside I; the physical driven evaluation times s,t remain in I. The interaction-picture control is the family VI:I→B(H), VI(t):=E(−t)V(t)E(t), which is strongly continuous with self-adjoint values and ∥VI(t)∥=∥V(t)∥≤v. The interaction propagator is UI(t,s):=E(−t)U(t,s)E(s)(s,t∈I), and the model's clause (c)(ii) supplies, as the cited theorem proves, the decomposition U(t,s)=E(t)UI(t,s)E(−s). The interaction propagator is unitary, jointly strongly continuous, satisfies UI(s,s)=I and the cocycle UI(t,r)=UI(t,s)UI(s,r), and its first-endpoint map is strongly differentiable with iℏ ∂tUI(t,s)ψ=VI(t)UI(t,s)ψ(ψ∈H), all as supplied by Strong bounded interaction picture; these are readings of that theorem in the model's vocabulary, not new assumptions.

(c) Interaction states and preparations. For a Schroedinger-picture state vector ψ(t)=U(t,s)ψ(s) the interaction-picture state is ψI(t):=E(−t)ψ(t),equivalentlyψI(t)=UI(t,s)ψI(s), and for a preparation ρ with ρ(t)=U(t,s)ρ(s)U(t,s)∗ the interaction-picture preparation is ρI(t):=E(−t)ρ(t)E(t), which is again a preparation of the model by Density operators and scalar spectral probability; for a pure preparation [ψ(s)], [ψI(t)] is pure. The map ψ(t)↦ψI(t) is unitary at every t, so ∥ψI(t)∥=∥ψ(t)∥.

(d) The two pictures assign the same outcome laws. Let (A,uA) be an assigned sharp observable with A∈B(H) bounded and let AI(t):=E(−t)AE(t) be its interaction-picture representative, which is again a bounded self-adjoint observable with EAI(t)(B)=E(−t)EA(B)E(t) for every Borel set B by clause (d) of Heisenberg flow of a bounded operator: conjugates, covariance and the equation of motion applied to the flow E of the self-adjoint T=−H0/ℏ. Then for every preparation ρ specified at s and every t∈I, μρ(t)A(B)=μρI(t)AI(t)(B)(B⊆R Borel), because ρ(t)=E(t)ρI(t)E(−t) and tr⁡(E(t)ρIE(−t)EA(B))=tr⁡(ρIE(−t)EA(B)E(t)) by cyclicity of the trace; equivalently, for a pure preparation, ∥EA(B)ψ(t)∥=∥EAI(t)(B)ψI(t)∥. This identity is the precise sense in which the two pictures are two bookkeeping devices for the same model; it is a reading of P2 together with the cited mathematics, not a claim about apparatuses.

(e) Energy-basis transition amplitudes. Let φa,φb∈D(H0) be unit eigenvectors, H0φa=Eaφa, H0φb=Ebφb, and let Aba(t,s) and pba(t,s) be the transition amplitude and probability of clause (e) of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models. Then Aba(t,s)=eis(Ea−Eb)/ℏ⟨UI(t,s)φa,φb⟩,hencepba(t,s)=∣⟨UI(t,s)φa,φb⟩∣2, by the decomposition of clause (b) and E(−s)φa=eisEa/ℏφa, ⟨E(t)χ,φb⟩=e−itEb/ℏ⟨χ,φb⟩; the phases are of modulus one (Real and complex inner product spaces, with the inner product linear in the first argument). The transition probability is therefore computable in either picture, and the definition records this as the reading used by the page's amplitude theorem; no measurement frequency or rate is defined.

(f) Status and scope. Clauses (b)-(e) are readings of the declared driven model, of clauses (b)-(e) of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models, and of P1 and P2, in the vocabulary of the cited mathematics. The interaction picture is a change of description of the same model: it adds no assumption, no physical process, no measurement and no empirical claim, and it asserts nothing about detectors, records or the laboratory realization of the model.

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The two-level rotating frame: conjugation identities, the transformed families and invariance of the level populations

Statement

Let (σx,σy,σz) be the Pauli matrices of Finite spin matrices clause (e), acting on C2 in the orthonormal basis (e↑,e↓) of that clause, so that σz=diag⁡(1,−1), σxσy=iσz, σyσz=iσx and σzσx=iσy; write I for the identity and let P↑,P↓ be the orthogonal projections onto Ce↑ and Ce↓. Let ℏ>0, ω,ω0,Ω1∈R, put Δ:=ω0−ω and, for t∈R, R(t):=cos⁡ ⁣(ωt2)I+isin⁡ ⁣(ωt2)σz. Then:

(a) Frame. For every t the matrix R(t) is unitary with R(0)=I, the map R is of class C∞ with R′(t)=iω2 σzR(t), and R(t)P↑R(t)∗=P↑, R(t)P↓R(t)∗=P↓.

(b) Conjugation. For every t, R(t)σxR(t)∗=cos⁡(ωt) σx−sin⁡(ωt) σy,R(t)σyR(t)∗=sin⁡(ωt) σx+cos⁡(ωt) σy,R(t)σzR(t)∗=σz.

(c) Circular drive. For the family Hc(t):=ℏ2(ω0σz+Ω1(cos⁡(ωt)σx+sin⁡(ωt)σy)) one has, for every t, R(t)Hc(t)R(t)∗+iℏR′(t)R(t)∗=ℏ2(Δσz+Ω1σx), which is a constant Hermitian matrix independent of t.

(d) Linear drive. For the family Hl(t):=ℏ2(ω0σz+Ω1cos⁡(ωt)σx) put A:=ℏ2(Δσz+Ω12σx),B:=ℏΩ18(σx+iσy). Then for every t R(t)Hl(t)R(t)∗+iℏR′(t)R(t)∗=A+e2iωtB+e−2iωtB∗, and ∥A∥≤ℏ2(∣Δ∣+∣Ω1∣2), ∥B∥=ℏ∣Ω1∣4.

(e) Transformation of the dynamics. Assume Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)). Let H:R→End⁡(C2) be continuous with Hermitian values, let ψ:R→C2 be of class C1 with iℏψ′(t)=H(t)ψ(t)(t∈R), and put ψR:=Rψ and HR(t):=R(t)H(t)R(t)∗+iℏR′(t)R(t)∗. Then ψR is of class C1 and satisfies iℏψR′(t)=HR(t)ψR(t) for every t; the family HR is continuous with Hermitian values. Consequently, if U is the unitary propagator of the norm-continuous family H supplied by Norm Dyson series and uniqueness, then UR(t,s):=R(t)U(t,s)R(s)∗(s,t∈R) is the unitary propagator of HR: it satisfies iℏ∂tUR(t,s)=HR(t)UR(t,s), UR(s,s)=I, the cocycle, and UR(t,s)∗=UR(s,t). Moreover for every solution ψ of the H-equation, every t∈R and both signs ∙∈{↑,↓}, ⟨P∙ψ(t),ψ(t)⟩=⟨P∙ψR(t),ψR(t)⟩.

The lemma is a statement of finite-dimensional linear algebra and calculus for the displayed matrices; no physical identification, no measurement and no asymptotic claim is made.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the Pauli matrices σx,σy,σz on C2 in the basis (e↑,e↓); the projections P↑,P↓; ℏ>0 and ω,ω0,Ω1,Δ; the matrix R(t); the families Hc,Hl and the matrices A,B; where clause (e) is used, a continuous Hermitian family H and a C1 solution ψ, and Countable Choice.

[F1]

The Pauli matrices. In the ordered basis (e↑,e↓) one has σx=(0110), σy=(0−ii0), σz=(100−1), the matrices are Hermitian, σx2=σy2=σz2=I, σxσy=iσz, σyσz=iσx, σzσx=iσy and σiσj+σjσi=2δijI for i,j∈{x,y,z}; products of matrices are computed entrywise-finitely (Finite spin matrices clause (e)).

[F2]

Complex exponential and trigonometric functions. For every real θ, eiθ=cos⁡θ+isin⁡θ, so eiθ=e−iθ‾ (exp⁡(x+iy)=ex(cos⁡y+isin⁡y), ∣exp⁡(x+iy)∣=ex, and eiπ+1=0); sin⁡′=cos⁡ and cos⁡′=−sin⁡ with the chain rule for t↦sin⁡(ωt), t↦cos⁡(ωt) for constant ω (The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine); and the addition formulas cos⁡(u+v)=cos⁡ucos⁡v−sin⁡usin⁡v, sin⁡(u+v)=sin⁡ucos⁡v+cos⁡usin⁡v hold for all real u,v, so in particular cos⁡(2u)=cos⁡2u−sin⁡2u, sin⁡(2u)=2sin⁡ucos⁡u and cos⁡2u+sin⁡2u=1 (The addition formulas for sine and cosine).

[F3]

The scalar product rule. If f,g:R→C are differentiable at t — the difference quotients of real and imaginary parts converge, equivalently (f(t+h)−f(t))/h converges in C — then fg is differentiable at t with (fg)′(t)=f′(t)g(t)+f(t)g′(t), and sums and constant multiples obey the same rule (Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: (f+g)′(c)=f′(c)+g′(c), (αf)′(c)=αf′(c), (fg)′(c)=f′(c)g(c)+f(c)g′(c), and (f/g)′(c)=(f′(c)g(c)−f(c)g′(c))/g(c)2 when g(c)≠0 applied to real and imaginary parts; The derivative f′(c)=lim⁡x→cf(x)−f(c)x−c of f:A→R at a point c∈A that is a limit point of A, and differentiability on a set). Applying this to the finitely many entries of a product of 2×2 matrices whose entries are differentiable real functions of t gives the entrywise product rule (UV)′=U′V+UV′ for such matrix curves.

[F4]

Unitary propagator of a norm-continuous bounded family. If H:R→End⁡(C2) is continuous with Hermitian values then it is norm-continuous with bounded self-adjoint values on every compact interval, and Norm Dyson series and uniqueness supplies a unique family U(t,s) of unitary matrices with U(s,s)=I, U(t,s)U(s,r)=U(t,r), U(t,s)∗=U(s,t), operator-norm continuity in (t,s), and operator-norm derivative ∂tU(t,s)=−iℏH(t)U(t,s); for fixed s it is the unique norm-continuous solution of that equation with U(s,s)=I (Norm Dyson series and uniqueness clauses (b), (c), (d); The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)).

[F5]

Inner product. The pairing on C2 is linear in the first argument and conjugate-linear in the second, and ⟨Uu,Uv⟩=⟨u,v⟩ for unitary U (Real and complex inner product spaces, with the inner product linear in the first argument); with σi as in [F1], the projections P↑=12(I+σz) and P↓=12(I−σz) satisfy P2=P=P∗ and act as the orthogonal projections onto the displayed basis vectors.

Proof

technique · direct; compute the displayed $2\times2$ matrices entrywise, differentiate the frame, and transform the differential equation by the product rule

Given: the data of the Statement and [F1]-[F5].

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[The frame is a diagonal unitary] By [F1], σz=diag⁡(1,−1), so [F2] gives R(t)=diag⁡(eiωt/2,e−iωt/2) in the basis (e↑,e↓); hence R(t)∗=R(t)‾=diag⁡(e−iωt/2,eiωt/2)=R(t)−1 by [F2], so R(t) is unitary with R(t)R(t)∗=R(t)∗R(t)=I and R(0)=I. Since R is diagonal, it commutes with the diagonal projections P↑=diag⁡(1,0) and P↓=diag⁡(0,1), so R(t)P∙R(t)∗=P∙R(t)R(t)∗=P∙ for both signs. This proves the unitarity, the initial value and the projection identities of (a).

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[Derivative of the frame] By [F2] and the chain rule, the entries t↦e±iωt/2 have derivatives ±iω2e±iωt/2, so R′(t)=diag⁡(iω2eiωt/2,−iω2e−iωt/2)=iω2diag⁡(eiωt/2,−e−iωt/2). Since σzR(t)=diag⁡(1,−1)diag⁡(eiωt/2,e−iωt/2)=diag⁡(eiωt/2,−e−iωt/2) by [F1] and entrywise matrix multiplication, R′(t)=iω2σzR(t), which completes (a).

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[Conjugation identities] Write r↑:=eiωt/2, r↓:=e−iωt/2, so R=diag⁡(r↑,r↓). Multiplying the displayed 2×2 matrices [F1] entrywise, RσxR∗=(0r↑r↓‾r↓r↑‾0),RσyR∗=(0−ir↑r↓‾ir↓r↑‾0),RσzR∗=σz, because σz is diagonal and commutes with R. By [F2], r↑r↓‾=eiωt/2eiωt/2=eiωt=cos⁡(ωt)+isin⁡(ωt) and r↓r↑‾=e−iωt=cos⁡(ωt)−isin⁡(ωt). Substituting, the first matrix equals cos⁡(ωt)σx−sin⁡(ωt)σy and the second equals sin⁡(ωt)σx+cos⁡(ωt)σy, by the entries displayed in [F1]. This proves (b).

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[The circular family] By step 1.3 and the linearity of matrix multiplication, R(t)(cos⁡(ωt)σx+sin⁡(ωt)σy)R(t)∗=cos⁡(ωt)(cos⁡(ωt)σx−sin⁡(ωt)σy)+sin⁡(ωt)(sin⁡(ωt)σx+cos⁡(ωt)σy)=(cos⁡2(ωt)+sin⁡2(ωt))σx=σx, the σy coefficients cancelling, and cos⁡2+sin⁡2=1 by [F2]. Since RσzR∗=σz by step 1.3, R(t)Hc(t)R(t)∗=ℏ2(ω0σz+Ω1σx), and by step 1.2, iℏR′(t)R(t)∗=iℏiω2σzR(t)R(t)∗=−ℏω2σz. Adding the two expressions gives ℏ2((ω0−ω)σz+Ω1σx)=ℏ2(Δσz+Ω1σx), a constant Hermitian matrix because Δ,Ω1 are real and the σi are Hermitian [F1]. This is (c).

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[The linear family] Again by step 1.3 and [F2], R(t)(cos⁡(ωt)σx)R(t)∗=cos⁡2(ωt)σx−sin⁡(ωt)cos⁡(ωt)σy=1+cos⁡(2ωt)2σx−sin⁡(2ωt)2σy, and RσzR∗=σz, so R(t)Hl(t)R(t)∗+iℏR′(t)R(t)∗=ℏ2(Δσz+Ω12σx)+ℏΩ14(cos⁡(2ωt)σx−sin⁡(2ωt)σy)=A+ℏΩ14(cos⁡(2ωt)σx−sin⁡(2ωt)σy). By [F2], e±2iωt=cos⁡(2ωt)±isin⁡(2ωt), so with B=ℏΩ18(σx+iσy) one has e2iωtB+e−2iωtB∗=ℏΩ18(e2iωt(σx+iσy)+e−2iωt(σx−iσy))=ℏΩ18(2cos⁡(2ωt)σx−2sin⁡(2ωt)σy), which is the displayed remainder; hence the factorised form of (d). Finally ∥A∥=ℏ2∥Δσz+Ω12σx∥≤ℏ2(∣Δ∣+∣Ω1∣2) because σz,σx are Hermitian unitaries [F1], and ∥σx+iσy∥=∥2σ+∥=2 since σx+iσy=(0200) has operator norm 2 by [F1]; hence ∥B∥=ℏ∣Ω1∣8⋅2=ℏ∣Ω1∣4. This is (d).

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[Transformation of the equation] Let H and ψ be as in clause (e) and let t∈R. The entries of R are C∞ by step 1.1 and [F2], those of ψ are C1 by hypothesis, so by the entrywise product rule [F3] the product ψR=Rψ is C1 with ψR′(t)=R′(t)ψ(t)+R(t)ψ′(t)=iω2σzR(t)ψ(t)+R(t)(−iℏH(t)ψ(t)), using step 1.2 and the equation iℏψ′=Hψ. Multiplying by iℏ, iℏψR′(t)=(−ℏω2σz+R(t)H(t)R(t)∗)ψR(t)=HR(t)ψR(t), since R(t)∗=R(t)−1 by step 1.1 and iℏR′(t)R(t)∗=−ℏω2σz by step 1.2; the family HR is continuous with Hermitian values because R is continuous unitary, H is continuous Hermitian and iℏR′R∗=−ℏω2σz is constant Hermitian. This proves the first assertion of (e).

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[The transformed propagator] Let U be the propagator of [F4]. By [F4] and step 1.1, UR(t,s)=R(t)U(t,s)R(s)∗ is unitary, UR(s,s)=R(s)R(s)∗=I, and the cocycle and adjoint identities follow from those of U and R. For the derivative, [F4] gives operator-norm differentiability of U(⋅,s), so by the entrywise product rule [F3] applied to the entries of R(t)U(t,s)R(s)∗, ∂tUR(t,s)=R′(t)U(t,s)R(s)∗+R(t)∂tU(t,s)R(s)∗=iω2σzUR(t,s)−iℏR(t)H(t)U(t,s)R(s)∗=iω2σzUR(t,s)−iℏR(t)H(t)R(t)∗UR(t,s), using step 1.2 and R(t)R(t)∗=I; multiplying by iℏ gives iℏ∂tUR(t,s)=(R(t)H(t)R(t)∗−ℏω2σz)UR(t,s)=HR(t)UR(t,s) by step 1.1 and the definition of HR. Since UR(⋅,s) is continuous with UR(s,s)=I and HR is norm-continuous with Hermitian values, [F4] identifies UR(⋅,s) with the unique propagator of HR, so all conclusions of the "consequently" clause hold.

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[Invariance of the level populations] Let ψ be a solution of the H-equation and t∈R. By step 2.3, ψ(t)=R(t)∗ψR(t); since R(t) is unitary [F5] and R(t)P∙R(t)∗=P∙ by step 1.1, ⟨P∙ψ(t),ψ(t)⟩=⟨P∙R(t)∗ψR(t),R(t)∗ψR(t)⟩=⟨R(t)P∙R(t)∗ψR(t),ψR(t)⟩=⟨P∙ψR(t),ψR(t)⟩, for both signs. This is the final assertion of (e).

Remarks

  • Where the two polarizations differ. For the circular family the transformed generator is the constant matrix ℏ2(Δσz+Ω1σx); for the linear family it is its averaged constant matrix A, with transverse coefficient Ω1/2, plus the explicitly displayed counter-rotating term e2iωtB+e−2iωtB∗, which is the term dropped in a rotating-wave approximation. The lemma proves the exact identity; the size of the dropped term is bounded on the page that uses it.
  • No assumption on the sign of ω. The identities hold for every real ω, including ω=0, where R≡I and the transformation is trivial; the matrix Hc reduces to ℏ2(ω0σz+Ω1σx) in that case.
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The bounded norm-continuous driven model: unique unitary propagator, Dyson truncation budget and outcome-law error

Physical scope

The bounded norm-continuous driven model of the declared system: existence, uniqueness and unitarity of the two-time propagator with its operator-norm Schroedinger equation, the Dyson truncation bound as an explicit error budget for the truncated propagator, the reading of evolved preparations at the running time, and the bound comparing exact Born probabilities to unnormalized truncated quadratic estimates. The theorem is conditional on the bounded norm-continuous class; it asserts no unbounded or common-domain family, no laboratory realization, no measurement model, no long-time limit and no empirical result.

Statement

Adopt the framework data and the declared driven model of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models in the bounded norm-continuous class of clause (b)(i): I=[a,b] is the declared compact time interval, H the state space of the declared system, ℏ>0, and H:I→B(H) is norm-continuous with self-adjoint values, K:=sup⁡t∈I∥H(t)∥/ℏ<∞. Let U0(t,s)=I and Un+1(t,s)=∫stA(r)Un(r,s) dr with A(r)=−iℏH(r) be the oriented Dyson iterates of Norm Dyson series and uniqueness, and let U(t,s)=∑n≥0Un(t,s) be its norm-convergent propagator; for N∈N0 put RN(t,s):=U(t,s)−∑n=0NUn(t,s). Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice), the latter for the outcome-law reading of P2. Then (all differential assertions below apply only when a<b, with one-sided derivatives at endpoints; for a=b only U(a,a)=I and the algebraic and norm assertions are claimed):

(a) Well-posedness of the declared model. The family U is the unique family of bounded operators on H that is jointly norm-continuous on I×I, unitary-valued, satisfies U(s,s)=I and the cocycle U(t,r)=U(t,s)U(s,r), and solves iℏ∂tU(t,s)=H(t)U(t,s) together with its second-endpoint equation iℏ∂sU(t,s)=−U(t,s)H(s) in operator norm. In particular the model's clause (c)(i) declaration has exactly one solution: the driven model in the bounded norm-continuous class is well posed.

(b) Truncation budget. For all s,t∈I and all N∈N0, with τ:=∣t−s∣, ∥RN(t,s)∥≤eKτ (Kτ)N+1(N+1)!,and∥U(t,s)−I∥≤eKτ−1. In particular ∥R1(t,s)∥≤eKτ(Kτ)2/2 and ∥R2(t,s)∥≤eKτ(Kτ)3/6.

(c) Evolved states and outcome laws. For every preparation ρ specified at time s the operator ρ(t):=U(t,s)ρ(s)U(t,s)∗ is a preparation of the model with tr⁡ρ(t)=1 for every t∈I, and the specification is consistent with the cocycle: evolving first from s to r and then from r to t gives the same preparation. For a pure preparation of a unit vector ψ(s) the vector ψ(t):=U(t,s)ψ(s) is unit and spans a pure preparation for every t. For every assigned sharp observable (A,uA) (Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework) and every Borel set B⊆R, the number μρ(t)A(B) is the model's outcome probability at time t.

(d) Error of the unnormalized truncated quadratic estimate. Let ψ(s) be a unit vector, put ψN(t):=∑n=0NUn(t,s)ψ(s) and let (A,uA) be an assigned sharp observable with A∈B(H) bounded. Then for every t∈I and every Borel set B⊆R, ∣μψ(t)A(B)−μψN(t)A(B)∣≤(1+∥∑n=0NUn(t,s)∥) ∥RN(t,s)∥≤2 eKτ(Kτ)N+1(N+1)!, where the truncated quantity is the unnormalized quadratic form μψN(t)A(B):=∥EA(B)ψN(t)∥2 of the truncated vector, whose norm is at most eKτ. It is an approximation to the normalized exact Born law and need not itself be a probability law; for N=1 the bound also implies the looser estimate 2eKτ(Kτ)2.

(e) Scope. The theorem is conditional on the bounded norm-continuous class, on the compactness of I and on K<∞. It asserts no existence or uniqueness statement for unbounded families (which are treated in their own classes), no uniform-in-time approximation, no rate or decay, no measurement or apparatus model, and no comparison with any recorded data.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the declared driven model in the bounded norm-continuous class; the iteration Un with A=−iH/ℏ and the propagator U; a truncation order N; the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice.

[F1]

Dyson propagator. Under the hypotheses of the Statement, ∥Un(t,s)∥≤(K∣t−s∣)n/n!; the series U=∑n≥0Un converges in operator norm uniformly on I×I, is jointly norm-continuous, satisfies U(s,s)=I, ∥U(t,s)−I∥≤eK∣t−s∣−1, is the unique continuous B(H)-valued solution of the integral equation U(t,s)=I−iℏ∫stH(r)U(r,s) dr for fixed s, and, when a<b with one-sided derivatives at endpoints, has operator-norm derivatives ∂tU(t,s)=−iℏH(t)U(t,s), ∂sU(t,s)=+iℏU(t,s)H(s); every U(t,s) is unitary with U(t,s)∗=U(s,t) and the cocycle holds (Norm Dyson series and uniqueness clauses (a)-(d)).

[F2]

Dyson truncation bound. With the notation of [F1] and RN(t,s)=U(t,s)−∑n=0NUn(t,s) one has ∥RN(t,s)∥≤eK∣t−s∣(K∣t−s∣)N+1/(N+1)! for all s,t∈I and all N, and the same actual self-adjoint hypotheses give the stronger ∥RN(t,s)∥≤(Kτ)N+1/(N+1)! (Dyson truncation bound clause (b)).

[F3]

State and outcome readings of the model. The model declares the evolved preparation ρ(t)=U(t,s)ρ(s)U(t,s)∗ and states that it is a preparation for every t by unitarity and Density operators and scalar spectral probability; the outcome law of an assigned sharp observable (A,uA) in a preparation is μρA(B)=tr⁡(ρEA(B)), for a pure preparation of a unit vector ψ the value μψA(B)=∥EA(B)ψ∥2 (The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models clauses (c)(i), (d); Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework clauses (a), (b); The state space: density operators, pure and mixed states, and purity; State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems; Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes).

[F4]

Inner-product and projection estimates. The pairing is linear in the first argument and conjugate-linear in the second with ∣⟨u,v⟩∣≤∥u∥∥v∥ (Cauchy–Schwarz: ∣⟨u,v⟩∣≤∥u∥∥v∥, with equality exactly for linearly dependent vectors, Real and complex inner product spaces, with the inner product linear in the first argument); the spectral projections EA(B) of a self-adjoint bounded A satisfy 0≤EA(B)≤I and ∥EA(B)∥≤1 (Projection valued measure); and for unit vectors u,v and a contraction Q one has ∣∥Qu∥2−∥Qv∥2∣≤2∥u−v∥.

Proof

technique · direct; instantiate the norm-continuous Dyson supplier and its truncation lemma at the model's data, then estimate the Born probabilities of the exact and truncated vectors

Given: the data of the Statement and [F1]-[F4].

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[Well-posedness and the properties of the propagator] The family H is norm-continuous with bounded self-adjoint values on the compact interval I, so [F1] applies and supplies the norm-convergent unitary propagator U with the cocycle, the inverse relation, joint norm-continuity and, for a<b, the two operator-norm endpoint equations with one-sided endpoint derivatives; if a=b, all iterated integrals vanish and U(a,a)=I is the sole evolution assertion. For a<b, uniqueness of the continuous solution of the integral equation with U(s,s)=I for fixed s is clause (c) of [F1], and the differential equation together with U(s,s)=I implies that integral equation by integration. Hence the family declared in clause (c)(i) of the model is exactly U, and it is unique; this is clause (a).

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[Truncation budget] By [F2] with τ=∣t−s∣, ∥RN(t,s)∥≤eKτ(Kτ)N+1/(N+1)! for every N≥0; [F1] separately gives ∥U(t,s)−I∥≤eKτ−1, and N=1, N=2 in [F2] give the displayed remainder bounds. This is clause (b).

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[Evolved preparations and outcome laws] By [F3] the model's evolved preparation is ρ(t)=U(t,s)ρ(s)U(t,s)∗, and it is a preparation for every t because U(t,s) is unitary [F1]; put ρ(r)=U(r,s)ρ(s)U(r,s)∗ for any r∈I. The cocycle of [F1] then gives U(t,r)ρ(r)U(t,r)∗=U(t,r)U(r,s)ρ(s)U(r,s)∗U(t,r)∗=U(t,s)ρ(s)U(t,s)∗=ρ(t), so the result does not depend on the intermediate time. For a unit vector ψ(s), ∥ψ(t)∥=∥ψ(s)∥=1 by unitarity, so [ψ(t)] is a pure preparation. The outcome probability at time t is μρ(t)A(B) by [F3], the reading of P2. This is clause (c).

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[Error of the unnormalized truncated estimate] Let SN=∑n=0NUn(t,s), u=U(t,s)ψ(s) and v=SNψ(s) for a unit initial vector. Then ∥u∥=1, ∥v∥≤∥SN∥≤∑n=0N(Kτ)n/n!≤eKτ by [F1], and ∥u−v∥≤∥RN∥. For the spectral projection Q=EA(B), the exact Born probability is ∥Qu∥2 while ∥Qv∥2 is the stated unnormalized quadratic estimate. Their difference equals ⟨Q(u−v),Qu⟩+⟨Qv,Q(u−v)⟩; Cauchy-Schwarz and contraction of Q bound its absolute value by (1+∥SN∥)∥RN∥≤(1+eKτ)∥RN∥. Crucially [F2] supplies the stronger unitary remainder ∥RN∥≤(Kτ)N+1/(N+1)!, so the result is at most 2eKτ(Kτ)N+1/(N+1)!, preserving the advertised final bound. For N=1 it is at most eKτ(Kτ)2, and hence also the stated looser 2eKτ(Kτ)2. At Kτ=0 both quantities coincide. No unit norm or density interpretation is assigned to the truncated vector. This proves (d).

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[Scope] Only the bounded norm-continuous class, the compactness of I and K<∞ entered; the truncation bound is linear-exponential in τ and gives no uniform-in-time statement, the truncation is a mathematical error budget rather than a laboratory protocol, and no measurement, rate, decay or empirical comparison is asserted. This is clause (e).

Remarks

  • The stronger unitary bound. Because every U(t,s) is unitary, the truncation lemma also records the bound ∥RN(t,s)∥≤(Kτ)N+1/(N+1)!, which does not grow exponentially; the theorem states the exponential version because it is the one used to convert to the outcome-law estimate with the same constant.
  • From propagator error to probability error. Clause (d) is the mechanism by which the Dyson truncation of the page's amplitude theorems becomes a bound on an outcome probability; it applies to every Borel outcome set and every bounded assigned sharp observable, and it requires no additional physical assumption beyond P2.
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The bounded-control driven model: mild propagator, interaction-picture evolution and equivalence of the two readings

Physical scope

The bounded-control driven model of the declared system: existence, uniqueness and unitary character of the mild two-time propagator of H(t) = H0 + V(t), the vectorwise mild Schroedinger identity, the weak Schroedinger identity on the domain of H0, the interaction-picture state evolution and control, and the equivalence of the Schroedinger and interaction readings of the outcome laws. The theorem is conditional on a self-adjoint H0 and a strongly continuous bounded self-adjoint control and asserts no invariant domain, no strong full Schroedinger equation for domain vectors, no measurement and no empirical result.

Statement

Adopt the framework data and the declared driven model of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models in the bounded-control class of clause (b)(ii): H is the model's state space, H0 is self-adjoint on D(H0) (Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators), V:I→B(H) is strongly continuous with self-adjoint values and v:=sup⁡t∈I∥V(t)∥<∞ (A bounded linear operator between normed spaces, The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum), H(t)=H0+V(t) on D(H0), and adopt the interaction-picture readings of The interaction picture of the declared driven model: readings, the interaction propagator and picture equivalence of outcome laws: E(t)=e−itH0/ℏ, VI(t)=E(−t)V(t)E(t), UI(t,s)=E(−t)U(t,s)E(s). Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice), the latter for the outcome-law reading of P2. Let U(t,s) be the mild propagator constructed by Strong bounded interaction picture. Then (all differential assertions apply only when a<b, with one-sided derivatives at endpoints; on I={a} the mild identity and all algebraic assertions reduce to U(a,a)=UI(a,a)=I):

(a) Well-posedness of the declared model. U is the unique family of unitary operators on H, jointly strongly continuous on I×I, with U(s,s)=I, U(t,s)∗=U(s,t) and the cocycle U(t,r)=U(t,s)U(s,r), satisfying the vectorwise mild Schroedinger identity U(t,s)ψ=E(t−s)ψ−iℏ∫stE(t−r)V(r)U(r,s)ψ dr(ψ∈H, s,t∈I); so the model's clause (c)(ii) declaration has exactly one solution. For ψ,φ∈D(H0) the scalar curve t↦⟨U(t,s)ψ,φ⟩ is continuously differentiable on I with ddt⟨U(t,s)ψ,φ⟩=−iℏ[⟨U(t,s)ψ,H0φ⟩+⟨V(t)U(t,s)ψ,φ⟩]. No invariance of D(H0) under U, no strong full Schroedinger equation for its domain vectors, and no operator-norm differentiability of U with respect to the unbounded generator are asserted.

(b) Interaction picture. For every s,t∈I and every ψ∈H the interaction state ψI(t):=E(−t)U(t,s)ψ(s) satisfies ψI(t)=UI(t,s)ψI(s), and its first-endpoint map is strongly differentiable with iℏ∂tψI(t)=VI(t)ψI(t); the interaction propagator is unitary with the cocycle and UI(t,s)∗=UI(s,t), and its strong truncation bound is ∥UI(t,s)−∑n=0NDn(t,s)∥≤eK(t−s)(K(t−s))N+1/(N+1)! for s≤t with K=v/ℏ.

(c) Equivalence of the two readings. For every preparation ρ specified at time s, every assigned sharp observable (A,uA) with A bounded, every t∈I and every Borel set B⊆R, the Schroedinger reading and the interaction reading give the same outcome probability: μρ(t)A(B)=μρI(t)AI(t)(B),AI(t)=E(−t)AE(t),ρI(t)=E(−t)ρ(t)E(t), and for pure preparations ∥ψI(t)∥=∥ψ(t)∥=∥ψ(s)∥. For eigenvectors φa,φb of H0 as in clause (e) of the model, the transition probabilities of the two pictures agree, pba(t,s)=∣⟨U(t,s)φa,φb⟩∣2=∣⟨UI(t,s)φa,φb⟩∣2.

(d) Scope. The theorem is conditional on the bounded-control class; the mild identity, not a strong equation on D(H0), is the evolution equation it establishes, and it asserts nothing about unbounded controls, invariant domains, measurement records, detectors, rates or empirical data.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the declared driven model in the bounded-control class and its interaction-picture readings; the operators E(t), VI, UI; a preparation ρ, a bounded assigned sharp observable A, times s,t∈I; the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice.

[F1]

Interaction-picture supplier. Under the hypotheses of the Statement, VI is strongly continuous with self-adjoint values and ∥VI(t)∥=∥V(t)∥≤v; the strong integrals Dn(t,s) and the interaction propagator UI=∑n≥0Dn converge in operator norm uniformly on the time triangle with ∥Dn∥≤(K(t−s))n/n! and ∥UI(t,s)−∑n=0NDn∥≤eK(t−s)(K(t−s))N+1/(N+1)!; UI extends to all s,t∈I as a strongly continuous unitary evolution with UI(s,t)=UI(t,s)−1=UI(t,s)∗ and the cocycle; for every ψ its first-endpoint map is C1 with UI(t,s)ψ=ψ+∫stB(r)UI(r,s)ψ dr and ∂tUI(t,s)ψ=B(t)UI(t,s)ψ, where B(t)=−iℏVI(t); the physical propagator U(t,s)=E(t)UI(t,s)E(−s) is unitary, jointly strongly continuous, has the cocycle and inverse, and satisfies the vectorwise mild identity U(t,s)ψ=E(t−s)ψ−iℏ∫stE(t−r)V(r)U(r,s)ψ dr; for ψ,φ∈D(H0) the scalar curve satisfies ddt⟨U(t,s)ψ,φ⟩=−iℏ[⟨U(t,s)ψ,H0φ⟩+⟨V(t)U(t,s)ψ,φ⟩] (Strong bounded interaction picture).

[F2]

Model and picture readings. The model declares U of clause (c)(ii) as the propagator carrying the state evolution and fixes the evolved preparation and outcome-law readings (The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models clauses (c)(ii), (d)); the interaction-picture readings fix E,VI,UI,ψI,ρI and state the outcome-law equivalence with the conjugate observable AI(t)=E(−t)AE(t) (The interaction picture of the declared driven model: readings, the interaction propagator and picture equivalence of outcome laws clauses (b)-(e)). The conjugate observable has spectral measure EAI(t)(B)=E(−t)EA(B)E(t) (Heisenberg flow of a bounded operator: conjugates, covariance and the equation of motion clause (d), applied to the flow E of the self-adjoint generator −H0/ℏ).

[F3]

Framework readings. ρ(t)=U(t,s)ρ(s)U(t,s)∗ is a preparation and the outcome law of an assigned sharp observable in a preparation is μρA(B) with the pure form ∥EA(B)ψ∥2 (Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework clauses (a), (b); The state space: density operators, pure and mixed states, and purity; State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems; Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes); E(t)=e−itH0/ℏ is the autonomous flow of the assigned energy observable (H0,J) (Assigned energy observable, unitary flow and the two pictures of autonomous evolution clause (b)).

[F4]

Inner product. The pairing is linear in the first argument and conjugate-linear in the second, and unitary operators preserve it (Real and complex inner product spaces, with the inner product linear in the first argument).

Proof

technique · direct; instantiate the interaction-picture supplier at the model's data and transfer the model's readings through the recorded definitions

Given: the data of the Statement and [F1]-[F4].

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[Well-posedness and the mild identity] The pair (H0,V) satisfies exactly the hypotheses of [F1] and the model's clause (b)(ii) is that hypothesis, so [F1] supplies the family U(t,s)=E(t)UI(t,s)E(−s) with the unitary, strong-continuity, inverse and cocycle properties and the vectorwise mild identity, and identifies it with the solution of the model's clause (c)(ii); to prove uniqueness, let U~ be any other jointly strongly continuous unitary family satisfying the same mild identity, fix s and ψ∈H, and set w(t):=E(−t)(U~(t,s)−U(t,s))ψ. Multiplying the difference of the mild identities by E(−t) and using the group law yields w(t)=∫stB(r)w(r) dr, with B=−iVI/ℏ and ∥B(r)∥≤K:=v/ℏ. The vector w is continuous and has finite maximum norm M on compact I (indeed M≤2∥ψ∥). Repeating this oriented integral identity n times and applying the vector integral norm inequality, as in the supplier proof of [F1], gives ∥w(t)∥≤M(K∣t−s∣)n/n! for both time orders. This tends to zero, so w(t)=0 for every t; since E(−t) is unitary and ψ was arbitrary, U~=U. On a singleton the mild identity directly fixes U(a,a)=I. When a<b, the weak identity for ψ,φ∈D(H0) is the scalar derivative assertion of [F1]. This is clause (a).

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[Interaction picture] By [F1], UI is unitary with the cocycle and adjoint properties, its first-endpoint map is strongly C1 with iℏ∂tUI(t,s)=VI(t)UI(t,s), and the truncation bound is displayed; by [F2] ψI(t)=E(−t)ψ(t) and ψI(t)=UI(t,s)ψI(s), so the strong equation for ψI follows from the equation for UI applied to ψI(s). This is clause (b).

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[Equivalence of the readings] Let ρ be specified at s and let A be bounded. By [F2], ρI(t)=E(−t)ρ(t)E(t) and EAI(t)(B)=E(−t)EA(B)E(t); using ρ(t)=E(t)ρI(t)E(−t) and the trace identity tr⁡(E(t)ρIE(−t)EA(B))=tr⁡(ρIE(−t)EA(B)E(t)), the two laws agree; for pure preparations unitarity of E(−t) [F4] gives ∥ψI(t)∥=∥ψ(t)∥=∥ψ(s)∥ by [F1]. For the eigenvector amplitudes, U=E(t)UIE(−s) and E(±t)φa/b=e∓itEa/b/ℏφa/b, so the two inner products differ by the phase ei(sEa−tEb)/ℏ of modulus one (the amplitude including its defining factor eiEb(t−s)/ℏ instead has phase eis(Ea−Eb)/ℏ) and the transition probabilities agree, as recorded in clause (e) of The interaction picture of the declared driven model: readings, the interaction propagator and picture equivalence of outcome laws. This is clause (c).

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[Scope] Every hypothesis used is one of: self-adjointness of H0, strong continuity and boundedness of the self-adjoint control, the compactness of I, and the choice hypotheses; the established equation is the mild identity, and no invariance of D(H0), no strong equation for its vectors, no measurement and no empirical claim entered, which is clause (d).

Remarks

  • Why the mild equation and not more. The supplier deliberately does not claim that U(t,s) maps D(H0) into itself, so the strong full Schroedinger equation for domain vectors is not available at this level of hypothesis; the weak identity of clause (a) is what remains, and it is enough for the amplitude theorem of this page because the eigenvector amplitudes are evaluated in the energy basis of H0.
  • The interaction picture does not change the model. Clause (c) records that A and ρ are transported together; a computation in the interaction picture is therefore a computation of the same outcome law, not a different physical situation.
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First-order transition amplitudes for a bounded control: Dyson remainder, the sinusoidal drive with its co- and counter-rotating parts, and the outcome-probability error

Physical scope

First-order transition amplitudes and their error in the bounded-control driven model: the exact amplitude in an orthonormal family of H0 eigenvectors, its first-order term with the explicit Dyson remainder bound, the closed evaluation for a sinusoidal control split into co-rotating and counter-rotating parts with their bounds, the linear growth at resonance, and the resulting bound on the outcome probability. The theorem is conditional on a bounded self-adjoint control and an orthonormal eigenfamily of H0; it asserts no long-time limit, no Fermi golden rule, no continuum density of states, no transition rate, no decay and no empirical result.

Statement

Adopt the framework data and the declared driven model of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models in the bounded-control class of clause (b)(ii): H is the model's state space, H0 is self-adjoint on D(H0), V:I→B(H) is strongly continuous with self-adjoint values, v=sup⁡t∈I∥V(t)∥<∞ and H(t)=H0+V(t); let U(t,s) be the mild propagator and put K:=v/ℏ. Let (φj)j∈J be an orthonormal family in D(H0) with H0φj=Ejφj (Orthonormal families, complete orthonormal systems and Hilbert bases) — a complete family is not required — and fix labels i,j∈J and s≤t in I, with τ:=t−s and Δ:=Ej−Ei. Let Aji(t,s)=eiEjτ/ℏ⟨U(t,s)φi,φj⟩ be the transition amplitude of clause (e) of the model and define its first-order term Aji(1)(t,s):=−iℏ∫steiΔ(r−s)/ℏ⟨V(r)φi,φj⟩ dr. Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice). Then:

(a) Exact amplitude with Dyson remainder. There is a remainder Rji(t,s) with Aji(t,s)=δij+Aji(1)(t,s)+Rji(t,s),∣Rji(t,s)∣≤eKτ(Kτ)22, and if η:I→[0,∞) is measurable and integrable, ∥V(r)−V0(r)∥≤η(r) for r∈I, and V0:I→B(H) has self-adjoint values with integrable scalar coefficient r↦⟨V0(r)φi,φj⟩, then the corresponding first-order amplitude differs from Aji(1) by at most 1ℏ∫stη(r) dr.

(b) Sinusoidal control. Let W∈B(H) be self-adjoint, ω,ϑ∈R, and suppose V(r)=Wcos⁡(ωr+ϑ) for r∈I. Put ϑ0:=ωs+ϑ and decompose Aji(1)=a++a−,a±:=−i2ℏ⟨Wφi,φj⟩e∓iϑ0 ei(Δ∓ℏω)τ/ℏ−1i(Δ∓ℏω)/ℏ, with the convention that the quotient is the limit τ when Δ∓ℏω=0. Then the co-rotating term a+ (the one whose denominator vanishes at Δ=ℏω) satisfies ∣a+∣=∣⟨Wφi,φj⟩∣ ∣sin⁡((Δ−ℏω)τ/(2ℏ))∣∣Δ−ℏω∣,and at Δ=ℏω:∣a+∣=∣⟨Wφi,φj⟩∣τ2ℏ, and the counter-rotating term satisfies ∣a−∣≤∣⟨Wφi,φj⟩∣/∣Δ+ℏω∣ whenever Δ+ℏω≠0.

(c) Outcome probability. The model's transition probability is pji(t,s)=∣Aji(t,s)∣2; with ε:=eKτ(Kτ)2/2 and A(1):=Aji(1), for distinct labels i≠j ∣pji(t,s)−∣A(1)∣2∣≤2∣A(1)∣ ε+ε2, and for i=j the survival probability obeys the analogous bound ∣pii(t,s)−∣1+A(1)∣2∣≤(2+2∣A(1)∣)ε+ε2; in both cases the exact outcome probability is controlled by the first-order term and the explicit Dyson error of clause (a).

(d) Scope. The statements are finite-time and conditional on the bounded control and on the orthonormal eigenfamily; the remainder bound grows like τ2eKτ and no long-time limit, transition rate, exponential decay, continuum density of states or Fermi golden rule is asserted, and no measured frequency, count or rate is claimed.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the declared driven model in the bounded-control class; the orthonormal eigenfamily (φj) with H0φj=Ejφj; labels i,j, times s≤t, τ=t−s, Δ=Ej−Ei, K=v/ℏ; where clause (b) applies, W,ω,ϑ with V(r)=Wcos⁡(ωr+ϑ); the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice.

[F1]

Amplitude supplier. Under the hypotheses of the Statement, with (φn) a complete orthonormal family of H0-eigenvectors and Ab0a0(t,s) as defined in clause (e) of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models, one has Ab0a0=δa0b0−iℏ∫stei(Eb0−Ea0)(r−s)/ℏ⟨V(r)φa0,φb0⟩dr+Rb0a0 with ∣Rb0a0∣≤eKτ(Kτ)2/2; for the optional comparison, if η is measurable, nonnegative and integrable, ∥V(r)−V0(r)∥≤η(r), and the selected scalar coefficient r↦⟨V0(r)φa0,φb0⟩ is measurable, the amplitude computed with V0 differs from the exact one by at most 1ℏ∫stη(r)dr+eKτ(Kτ)2/2 (First-order amplitude tail). The proof of that item uses only the two fixed basis vectors, so the completeness of the eigenfamily is not needed for the displayed conclusion on the pair (i,j).

[F2]

Model and picture readings. The model defines the amplitude Aji=eiEjτ/ℏ⟨U(t,s)φi,φj⟩ and the probability pji=∣Aji∣2, with the reading of the outcome law of the energy observable in clause (e) (The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models clauses (c)(ii), (e)); the physical propagator is the mild propagator of the bounded-control class (The bounded-control driven model: mild propagator, interaction-picture evolution and equivalence of the two readings clauses (a), (b); Strong bounded interaction picture; The interaction picture of the declared driven model: readings, the interaction propagator and picture equivalence of outcome laws clause (e)).

[F3]

Proof

technique · direct; instantiate the supplier's amplitude expansion, evaluate the sinusoidal integral by the exponential form of the cosine, and estimate the probability difference by the difference of the amplitudes

Given: the data of the Statement and [F1]-[F3].

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[Exact pair amplitude without completeness] The interaction-picture supplier in [F2] gives U=E(t)UIE(−s) and UI=I+D1+T2 with D1ξ=−(i/ℏ)∫stVI(r)ξ dr and ∥T2∥≤eKτ(Kτ)2/2. For the two specified eigenvectors, ⟨E(t)x,φj⟩=e−iEjt/ℏ⟨x,φj⟩ and E(−s)φi=eiEis/ℏφi, so the correct model amplitude is Aji=ei(Ei−Ej)s/ℏ⟨UIφi,φj⟩. Its zeroth term is δij. Also ⟨VI(r)φi,φj⟩=ei(Ej−Ei)r/ℏ⟨V(r)φi,φj⟩. Passing this continuous bounded linear pairing through the vector integral gives exactly Aji(1) and Rji=ei(Ei−Ej)s/ℏ⟨T2φi,φj⟩, with the advertised remainder by [F3]. Only the fixed pair was used; a complete eigenfamily is unnecessary. For the selected integrable coefficient of V0, subtracting the two first-order scalar integrals and using ∣⟨(V−V0)φi,φj⟩∣≤η proves the stated ℏ−1∫stη bound. This proves (a), including free, zero-time and diagonal cases.

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[Sinusoidal evaluation] With V(r)=Wcos⁡(ωr+ϑ) and u:=r−s, ωr+ϑ=ωu+ϑ0, so cos⁡(ωr+ϑ)=12(ei(ωu+ϑ0)+e−i(ωu+ϑ0)) and Aji(1)=−i2ℏ⟨Wφi,φj⟩[eiϑ0∫0τei(Δ+ℏω)u/ℏdu+e−iϑ0∫0τei(Δ−ℏω)u/ℏdu], the two integrals being τ when their frequency vanishes and (eiθτ/ℏ−1)/(iθ/ℏ) otherwise; this is the displayed decomposition with a± and the stated convention. For a+, ∣eiθτ/ℏ−1∣=2∣sin⁡(θτ/(2ℏ))∣ and the modulus of the quotient by iθ/ℏ is 2ℏ∣sin⁡(θτ/(2ℏ))∣/∣θ∣ for θ=Δ−ℏω≠0, giving ∣a+∣=∣⟨Wφi,φj⟩∣∣sin⁡((Δ−ℏω)τ/(2ℏ))∣/∣Δ−ℏω∣; at Δ=ℏω the quotient is τ and the same modulus formula gives the limit ∣⟨Wφi,φj⟩∣τ/(2ℏ). For a− the same computation gives ∣a−∣=∣⟨Wφi,φj⟩∣∣sin⁡((Δ+ℏω)τ/(2ℏ))∣/∣Δ+ℏω∣≤∣⟨Wφi,φj⟩∣/∣Δ+ℏω∣. This is clause (b).

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[Probability error for transition and survival] By [F2], pji=∣Aji∣2, and step 1.1 gives Aji=bji+R, where bji=δij+A(1) and ∣R∣≤ε. The identity ∣b+R∣2−∣b∣2=2Re⁡(Rb‾)+∣R∣2 therefore gives ∣pji−∣bji∣2∣≤2∣bji∣ε+ε2. For i≠j, bji=A(1), giving the displayed transition bound; for i=j, bii=1+A(1) and ∣bii∣≤1+∣A(1)∣, giving the displayed survival bound. No diagonal term is dropped. This proves (c).

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[Scope] Only the bounded control, the fixed eigenpair, finite times and the choice hypotheses entered; the remainder grows like eKττ2 and no infinite-time limit, density of states, rate or decay was formed, which is clause (d).

Remarks

  • Resonance versus Rabi oscillation. Clause (b) shows that the first-order co-rotating amplitude grows linearly in τ at exact resonance. That linear growth is the small-coupling, short-time first-order behaviour of the general bounded-control model; the exact bounded oscillation of the two-level circular drive is proved separately on this page for the declared finite model, and the two statements have different hypotheses: the first applies to any bounded control with an orthonormal eigenpair, the second is exact for the declared two-level family.
  • What "first order" controls. The bound of clause (a) is uniform in the labels and in the family; it is a bound on the amplitude, not a rate, and the counter-rotating bound of clause (b) shows explicitly how far the physical first-order term is from its co-rotating part.
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The common-domain driven model: strong propagator with domain invariance, and the driven oscillator as its declared instance

Physical scope

The common-domain driven model of the declared system: existence and uniqueness of a strong two-time propagator for a C^1 family of self-adjoint operators on a fixed dense domain Y, invariance of Y with a uniform graph bound, the strong Schroedinger equation on Y, the reverse and adjoint equations, and the admissibility of the declared driven oscillator family H(t) = H_osc - f(t) Q as an instance. The theorem is conditional on the common-domain regularity class; it asserts no laboratory realization, no measurement, no long-time or asymptotic statement and no empirical result.

Statement

Adopt the framework data and the declared driven model of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models in the common-domain class of clause (b)(iii): H is the model's state space (Hilbert space), Y⊆H is a dense linear subspace that is itself a Hilbert space continuously embedded in H, D(H(t))=Y for every t∈I=[a,b], every H(t) is self-adjoint as an operator on H (Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators), and t↦H(t) is of class C1(I;B(Y,H)) (A bounded linear operator between normed spaces, The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum); put A(t):=H(t)/ℏ and, when a<b, L:=sup⁡t∈I∥H′(t)∥B(Y,H)<∞; for a=b set L:=0. Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice). Then (all differential assertions below apply only when a<b, with one-sided derivatives at endpoints; for a=b only U(a,a)=I and the domain, norm and algebraic assertions are claimed):

(a) Well-posedness of the declared model. There is a family U(t,s), a≤s≤t≤b on I, of unitary operators on H with U(s,s)=I, the cocycle U(t,r)=U(t,s)U(s,r), joint strong continuity in (t,s), and: U(t,s)Y=Y,∥U(t,s)y∥Y≤CI∥y∥Y(y∈Y),iℏ ∂tU(t,s)y=H(t)U(t,s)y(y∈Y), where the derivative is in H and CI<∞ is independent of the endpoints and depends on the actual graph equivalence of Y with D(H(t)/ℏ) as well as I and L/ℏ; this family is unique among bounded families with the same strong equation on Y, U(s,s)=I and locally bounded strong orbits. The model's clause (c)(iii) declaration therefore has exactly one solution.

(b) Reverse and adjoint equations. With U(s,t):=U(t,s)−1 one has U(t,s)∗=U(s,t) and iℏ∂sU(t,s)y=−U(t,s)H(s)y for y∈Y; equivalently iℏ∂sU(s,t)y=H(s)U(s,t)y. The domain maps (t,s)↦U(t,s)∣Y are jointly strongly continuous in B(Y).

(c) Declared instance: the driven oscillator. Let m,ω,ℏ>0 and let (Hosc,Q) be the energy and position observables of the one-dimensional oscillator model of The quadratic-potential oscillator model of the framework clauses (b), (c) on L2(R,dx), with Y=D(Hosc) carrying the graph norm, and let f∈C1(I;R). Declare, as a further model assumption of the pair, the driven oscillator family H(t):=Hosc−f(t)Q(t∈I), read as the system's energy at time t, with f(t)Q in joules for f(t) in J m−1. Then for every t the operator H(t) is self-adjoint on the single domain Y, the family belongs to C1(I;B(Y,L2)) with derivative −f′(t)Q, and the hypotheses of clause (a) are satisfied with H=L2(R,dx); consequently the driven oscillator has a unique strong propagator preserving D(Hosc) and satisfying iℏ∂tU(t,s)y=H(t)U(t,s)y for y∈D(Hosc).

(d) Scope. The theorem is conditional on the common-domain regularity class and on the cited oscillator construction; it asserts no existence statement outside that class, no explicit solution, no long-time or adiabatic statement, no measurement and no empirical comparison.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the declared driven model in the common-domain class with data Y, H(t), L, A=H/ℏ; where clause (c) applies, the oscillator data m,ω,ℏ, Hosc, Q, and f∈C1(I;R); the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice.

[F1]

Common-domain supplier. Under the hypotheses of the Statement with a generator family A(t) of class C1([0,T];B(Y,H)) and L=sup⁡t∥A′(t)∥B(Y,H), there is a family U(t,s) for 0≤s≤t≤T of unitary operators on H with U(s,s)=I, the cocycle, joint strong continuity on {s≤t} for each ξ∈H, U(t,s)Y=Y with ∥U(t,s)y∥Y≤CT∥y∥Y for a constant independent of (s,t), and t↦U(t,s)y of class C1 in H with i∂tU(t,s)y=A(t)U(t,s)y for y∈Y; the family is unique among bounded families with the same strong equation, U(s,s)=I and bounded strong orbits; U(s,t):=U(t,s)−1 satisfies i∂sU(s,t)y=A(s)U(s,t)y and U(t,s)∗=U(s,t), and the domain maps are jointly strongly continuous in Y (Common-domain nonautonomous evolution clauses (a)-(c)).

[F2]

Driven-oscillator instance. For m,ω,ℏ>0, length ℓ=ℏ/(mω), the oscillator energy Hosc=ℏω(Nψ+12I) with domain Y=D(Nψ), position and momentum Q,P of the model, and f∈C1([a,b];R): for every ψ∈Y one has ∥Qψ∥≤η∥Hoscψ∥+bη∥ψ∥ for every η>0 (so Q is Hosc-bounded with relative bound 0), for every t the operator H(t)=Hosc−f(t)Q is self-adjoint on the single domain Y, and t↦H(t) is of class C1([a,b];B(Y,L2)) with derivative −f′(t)Q (Driven oscillator common domain clauses (b), (c)).

[F3]

Model readings. The model declares the class-(iii) family as its energy and clause (c)(iii) as its evolution demand (The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models clauses (b)(iii), (c)(iii), (d)); the oscillator model supplies the assigned energy observable (Hosc,J), the position observable (Q,m) with unit m, and the flow generated by Hosc (The quadratic-potential oscillator model of the framework clauses (b), (c); State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems; Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes; Dimensions, SI unit conventions and quantity types of the framework).

Proof

technique · direct; instantiate the common-domain supplier at the model's generator family and check the oscillator family against its hypotheses

Given: the data of the Statement and [F1]-[F3].

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[Well-posedness] If a=b, set U(a,a)=I; the domain, norm and continuity assertions hold with CI=1, and no derivative is asserted under the model's singleton convention. For a<b, the generator family A(t)=H(t)/ℏ has D(A(t))=Y for every t, is self-adjoint on H as a scalar multiple of H(t), and belongs to C1(I;B(Y,H)) with A′(t)=H′(t)/ℏ and sup⁡t∥A′(t)∥B(Y,H)=L/ℏ<∞; these are exactly the hypotheses of [F1] with T=b−a and the time reparametrisation t↦t−a, so [F1] supplies the family U with all displayed properties and identifies it with the model's clause (c)(iii). For explicit dependence, put K(t)=A(t)−i:Y→H, M=sup⁡t∥K(t)−1∥H→Y, N=sup⁡t∥K(t)∥Y→H, and LA=L/ℏ. The bounded inverse and local Neumann construction in [F1], shows M,N<∞ on compact I, without a further hypothesis. Its frozen-product construction bounds the frozen products and limiting evolution in Y by a uniform constant controlled by MNeLAM(b−a), with the endpoint graph conversions described there. Thus the genuine family-dependent graph constants, rather than I,L alone, control CI. This is clause (a).

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[Reverse and adjoint equations] For a=b, clause (b) reduces to the identity and continuity of U(a,a)=I. For a<b, the second and third assertions of [F1] give U(t,s)∗=U(s,t) and iℏ∂sU(t,s)y=−U(t,s)H(s)y for y∈Y after multiplying by ℏ, together with the joint strong continuity of the domain maps in the graph norm of Y. This is clause (b).

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[The driven oscillator is an instance] By [F2], H(t)=Hosc−f(t)Q is self-adjoint on the single domain Y for every t and the family is of class C1(I;B(Y,L2)) with derivative −f′(t)Q; this is precisely the common-domain class hypothesis of the model's clause (b)(iii) with H=L2(R,dx) and the declared reading of H(t) as the energy by [F3], and the factor f(t)Q carries the unit J m−1⋅m=J by [F3]. Applying clause (a) with H(t)/ℏ gives the unique strong propagator with the strong equation on D(Hosc) and domain invariance. This is clause (c).

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[Scope] Only the common-domain class, the regularity C1(Y,H) and the oscillator's relative-boundedness structure were used; no explicit solution, no asymptotic, adiabatic or long-time statement, no measurement and no empirical comparison was formed, which is clause (d).

Remarks

  • Why the common domain matters. The class-(iii) hypothesis gives what the bounded-control class of the mild theorem does not: invariance of the domain Y and a genuine strong Schroedinger equation on Y. The price is the stronger regularity assumption, C1 in the graph norm rather than mere strong continuity of a bounded control.
  • The unbounded position coupling and constant drives. With the reference energy H0=Hosc, the perturbation −f(t)Q is unbounded whenever f(t)≠0, so general drives are treated here by the common-domain construction and relative bound of [F2]. A constant drive f(t)≡f0 can instead be absorbed into the fixed self-adjoint energy H0=Hosc−f0Q on Y by [F2], with bounded control V(t)=0; in particular f0=0 gives the free oscillator. Thus the regularity classes need not be disjoint. The explicit oscillator propagator is a separate result used by the page's example.
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The circularly driven two-level model: exact rotating-frame reduction, Rabi populations, resonance and inversion times

Physical scope

The declared circular two-level drive model with splitting frequency omega0, transverse coupling Omega1 and drive frequency omega: the exact rotating-frame reduction to the constant matrix (hbar/2)(Delta sigma_z + Omega1 sigma_x), the exact level populations of the evolved up-state as Rabi probabilities, the resonance case and the pi-pulse and return times. The statement is exact for the declared finite model; it asserts no damping or relaxation, no measurement record, no laboratory identification of the parameters and no empirical result.

Statement

Adopt the framework data and the declared circular two-level drive model of clause (f) of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models: H=C2 with the orthonormal basis (e↑,e↓) and the Pauli matrices (σx,σy,σz) of Finite spin matrices clause (e), real parameters ω0,Ω1,ω and Hc(t):=ℏ2(ω0σz+Ω1(cos⁡(ωt)σx+sin⁡(ωt)σy)),t∈I=[t0,t1], read as the model's energy family in the bounded norm-continuous class, with Uc(t,s) its unique unitary propagator (The bounded norm-continuous driven model: unique unitary propagator, Dyson truncation budget and outcome-law error clause (a)). Put Δ:=ω0−ω, b:=Δ2+Ω12, let R(t):=cos⁡(ωt/2)I+isin⁡(ωt/2)σz be the rotating frame of The two-level rotating frame: conjugation identities, the transformed families and invariance of the level populations and let P↑,P↓ be the projections onto Ce↑,Ce↓, with populations p∙(t):=⟨P∙ψ(t),ψ(t)⟩ of the evolved vector. Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice). Then (differential assertions apply when t0<t1, with one-sided endpoint derivatives; on a singleton the propagator identity and population formulas remain valid):

(a) Exact rotating-frame reduction. For every solution ψ of iℏψ′(t)=Hc(t)ψ(t) the rotating-frame vector ψR(t):=R(t)ψ(t) satisfies exactly iℏψR′(t)=ℏ2(Δσz+Ω1σx)ψR(t), with the constant matrix ℏ2(Δσz+Ω1σx); equivalently Uc(t,s)=R(t)∗ e−i(t−s)(Δσz+Ω1σx)/2 R(s)(s,t∈I).

(b) Rabi populations. Let ψ(s)=e↑ at time s. Define p∙R(τ):=⟨P∙ψR(s+τ),ψR(s+τ)⟩ for τ∈I−s:={t−s:t∈I}. Then for τ:=t−s p↓(t)=p↓R(τ)=∣⟨e↓,e−iτ(Δσz+Ω1σx)/2e↑⟩∣2=Ω12b2sin⁡2 ⁣(bτ2)(b>0), and p↑(t)=1−p↓(t); the populations of the rotating-frame vector ψR(t) are the same numbers.

(c) Resonance and inversion times. At resonance Δ=0 one has p↓(t)=sin⁡2(Ω1τ/2); when Ω1≠0, the drive inverts the population fully at the pi-pulse time τ=π/∣Ω1∣ and returns it to the initial level at τ=2π/∣Ω1∣, whenever the respective evaluation time s+τ belongs to I; for b>0 the population obeys p↓R(τ+2π/b)=p↓R(τ) whenever both elapsed times lie in I−s. For Ω1=0 the populations are constant, p↓≡0 and p↑≡1.

(d) Scope. The statements are exact for the declared finite model and its declared parameters; the rotating frame is a change of description of the same model and does not change the populations. The theorem asserts no damping or relaxation, no decoherence, no measurement record, no identification of ω0,Ω1 with laboratory fields or of the two levels with a species, and no empirical value.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the declared circular two-level drive model with parameters ω0,Ω1,ω and interval I; the propagator Uc; the frame R; Δ,b; a solution ψ of the model's equation and the initial condition ψ(s)=e↑; the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice.

[F1]

Rotating-frame lemma. For the frame R(t)=cos⁡(ωt/2)I+isin⁡(ωt/2)σz: R is C∞ and unitary with R′(t)=iω2σzR(t), and R(t)P↑R(t)∗=P↑, R(t)P↓R(t)∗=P↓; and for the circular family R(t)Hc(t)R(t)∗+iℏR′(t)R(t)∗=ℏ2(Δσz+Ω1σx) for every t; every solution ψ transforms to ψR=Rψ satisfying the equation with the transformed family, and the transformed propagator UcR(t,s)=R(t)Uc(t,s)R(s)∗ is the propagator of that family; moreover ⟨P∙ψ(t),ψ(t)⟩=⟨P∙ψR(t),ψR(t)⟩ for both signs (The two-level rotating frame: conjugation identities, the transformed families and invariance of the level populations clauses (a), (c), (e)).

[F2]

Two-level Rabi supplier. For H=ℏ2(δσz+Ωσx) on C2 with b=δ2+Ω2 one has H2=ℏ2b24I, the unitary group generated by −iH/ℏ is U(t)=cos⁡(bt/2)I−ibsin⁡(bt/2)(δσz+Ωσx) with U(t)=I when b=0, the down-probability of the initial up-state is p↓(t)=Ω2sin⁡2(bt/2)/b2 for b>0, and U(t+2π/b)=−U(t) for b>0, so every transition probability is exactly 2π/b-periodic in t (Two-level Rabi model clauses (a), (b), (c)).

[F4]

Inner product and matrices. The pairing on C2 is linear in the first argument and conjugate-linear in the second, the vectors e↑,e↓ are orthonormal, and the matrices σx,σy,σz,I are as displayed in clause (e) of Finite spin matrices with σz=diag⁡(1,−1); b2=Δ2+Ω12 by definition of b (Hilbert space, A bounded linear operator between normed spaces, The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum).

Proof

technique · direct; instantiate the rotating-frame lemma at the declared circular family, then read the populations from the supplied two-level Rabi theorem

Given: the data of the Statement and [F1]-[F4].

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[Exact reduction and propagator identity] The circular family is a continuous bounded self-adjoint family, so its unique unitary propagator Uc exists by [F3] and the model's clause (c)(i) is well posed. By clause (c) of [F1] applied with H=Hc, the frame transforms the family into the constant matrix HR:=ℏ2(Δσz+Ω1σx), so every solution ψ gives ψR=Rψ satisfying iℏψR′=HRψR; by clause (e) of [F1] the transformed propagator UcR(t,s)=R(t)Uc(t,s)R(s)∗ is the propagator of the constant family, and since that family is autonomous with HR2=ℏ2b24I by [F2], its propagator is e−i(t−s)HR/ℏ=e−i(t−s)(Δσz+Ω1σx)/2 by [F2] clause (a). Taking R(t)∗(⋅)R(s) gives the displayed identity for Uc. This is clause (a).

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[Populations] Let ψ(s)=e↑. By clause (e) of [F1] the populations of ψ(t) equal those of ψR(t), and by step 1.1 ψR(t)=eiωs/2e−iτHR/ℏe↑, since R(s)e↑=eiωs/2e↑. This initial phase has modulus one and leaves populations unchanged; by clause (b) of [F2] with δ=Δ, Ω=Ω1 the down-population is Ω12sin⁡2(bτ/2)/b2 for b>0 and the up-population is its complement, because ∥e↑∥=1 and the evolution is unitary. At Ω1=0 the family is constant and diagonal, so the populations are constant with p↓≡0; the formula at Δ≠0, Ω1=0 would read 0/b2sin⁡2(bτ/2) with b=∣Δ∣, which is also 0. This is clause (b).

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[Resonance and periodicity] At Δ=0 one has b=∣Ω1∣ and the formula of clause (b) reads p↓=sin⁡2(Ω1τ/2); for Ω1≠0 the formula equals one at τ=π/∣Ω1∣ and zero at τ=2π/∣Ω1∣, provided the respective time s+τ lies in I. For general b>0 the probability has equal values at τ and τ+2π/b when both belong to I−s by clause (c) of [F2] together with clause (e) of [F1], since bτ enters only through sin⁡2(bτ/2). This is clause (c).

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[Scope] The computation used the declared two-level model, the exact frame identity and the exact Rabi theorem; it identified no laboratory system or field, asserted no damping, decoherence or measurement, and made no empirical claim, which is clause (d).

Remarks

  • Why this is exact. The circular drive is special: the drive vector rotates in the same sense as the frame, so the transformed family is exactly time-independent and no rotating-wave approximation is needed. The linearly polarized drive of the companion theorem contains a counter-rotating term; the two theorems therefore have genuinely different hypotheses.
  • Populations are not records. The numbers p↑,p↓ are model outcome probabilities of the two-level projections in the evolved preparation, in the reading of P2; no apparatus, pulse protocol or record is asserted.
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The linearly driven two-level model: rotating-wave approximation with an explicit finite-time error contract and the averaged Rabi populations

Physical scope

The declared linear two-level drive model: the exact rotating-frame family with its co- and counter-rotating parts, the rotating-wave error contract bounding the rotating-frame propagator against the propagator of the averaged detuned Rabi matrix, and the resulting bound on the exact level population against the averaged Rabi probability. The statement is conditional on the declared finite model and on a nonzero drive frequency; the error bound is linear in the elapsed time and the theorem asserts no uniform-in-time approximation, no decay, no measurement and no empirical result.

Statement

Adopt the framework data and the declared linear two-level drive model of clause (f) of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models: H=C2, the orthonormal basis (e↑,e↓) and Pauli matrices of Finite spin matrices clause (e), real parameters ω0,Ω1,ω with ω≠0, and Hl(t):=ℏ2(ω0σz+Ω1cos⁡(ωt)σx),t∈I=[a,b], read as the model's energy family in the bounded norm-continuous class with unique propagator Ul(t,s) (The bounded norm-continuous driven model: unique unitary propagator, Dyson truncation budget and outcome-law error clause (a)). Put Δ:=ω0−ω, let R(t):=cos⁡(ωt/2)I+isin⁡(ωt/2)σz be the rotating frame of The two-level rotating frame: conjugation identities, the transformed families and invariance of the level populations, let UlR(t,s):=R(t)Ul(t,s)R(s)∗, and define the averaged matrix and the counter-rotating amplitude A:=ℏ2(Δσz+Ω12σx),B:=ℏΩ18(σx+iσy),ε(τ):=∣Ω1∣2∣ω∣[1+τ(∣Δ∣2+3∣Ω1∣4)]. Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice). Then:

(a) Exact rotating-frame family. For every t∈I, R(t)Hl(t)R(t)∗+iℏR′(t)R(t)∗=A+e2iωtB+e−2iωtB∗, with A=A∗, ∥A/ℏ∥≤12(∣Δ∣+∣Ω1∣/2) and ∥B/ℏ∥=∣Ω1∣/4; the second and third terms are the counter-rotating terms of the drive in the rotating frame.

(b) Rotating-wave error contract. For all s,t∈I, with τ:=∣t−s∣, ∥UlR(t,s)−e−i(t−s)A/ℏ∥≤ε(τ)=∣Ω1∣2∣ω∣[1+τ(∣Δ∣2+3∣Ω1∣4)]; the bound is uniform in s for fixed τ and grows linearly in τ.

(c) Population comparison. Let ψ(s)=e↑ and let p↓(t):=⟨P↓ψ(t),ψ(t)⟩ be the exact down-population at time t, where ψ(t)=Ul(t,s)e↑. Let p↓avg(τ):=(Ω1/2)2Δ2+(Ω1/2)2 sin⁡2 ⁣(τ2Δ2+Ω124)(Ω1≠0),p↓avg≡0(Ω1=0), be the down-population of the initial up-state under the propagator of the averaged family t↦A. Then for every s,t∈I ∣p↓(t)−p↓avg(t−s)∣≤2 ε(∣t−s∣). At resonance Δ=0 one has p↓avg(τ)=sin⁡2(∣Ω1∣τ/4).

(d) Scope. The averaged family is not asserted to be the model's exact dynamics: clause (b) is an error contract bounding the exact rotating-frame propagator against it, and its linear growth in τ gives no uniform-in-time approximation. The theorem asserts no resonance width, no decay rate, no long-time limit, no measurement record, no laboratory identification and no empirical result.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the declared linear two-level drive model with parameters ω0,Ω1,ω≠0 and interval I; the propagator Ul; the frame R and the rotated propagator UlR; Δ, A, B and ε; the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice.

[F1]

Rotating-frame lemma. For R(t)=cos⁡(ωt/2)I+isin⁡(ωt/2)σz and the linear family Hl, one has R(t)Hl(t)R(t)∗+iℏR′(t)R(t)∗=A+e2iωtB+e−2iωtB∗ for every t, with ∥A∥≤ℏ2(∣Δ∣+∣Ω1∣/2) and ∥B∥=ℏ∣Ω1∣/4; the transformed propagator UlR(t,s)=R(t)Ul(t,s)R(s)∗ is the propagator of the transformed family; and the level populations are frame-invariant, ⟨P∙ψ(t),ψ(t)⟩=⟨P∙ψR(t),ψR(t)⟩ (The two-level rotating frame: conjugation identities, the transformed families and invariance of the level populations clauses (a), (d), (e)).

[F2]

Rotating-wave supplier. Let H be a complex Hilbert space, A=A∗∈B(H), B∈B(H) and ω≠0, and put H(t)=A+eiωtB+e−iωtB∗, Havg=A, with U,Uavg the unitary propagators of these norm-continuous bounded families. Then for all s≤t, ∥U(t,s)−Uavg(t,s)∥≤4∥B∥∣ω∣[1+(t−s)(∥A∥+2∥B∥)] in units ℏ=1; with ℏ restored, replace A,B by A/ℏ,B/ℏ (Rotating-wave finite-time error).

[F3]

Two-level Rabi supplier. For H=ℏ2(δσz+Ωσx) with b=δ2+Ω2, the unitary group generated by −iH/ℏ is U(τ)=cos⁡(bτ/2)I−ibsin⁡(bτ/2)(δσz+Ωσx) (U=I if b=0), and the down-probability of the initial up-state is p↓(τ)=Ω2sin⁡2(bτ/2)/b2 for b>0 (Two-level Rabi model clauses (a), (b)).

Proof

technique · direct; read the transformed family and its norm bounds off the rotating-frame lemma, instantiate the rotating-wave supplier at that family, and compare the populations of two unit vectors under contracting projections

Given: the data of the Statement and [F1]-[F4].

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[Transformed family and bounds] Clause (d) of [F1] applied to the declared linear family is exactly the displayed identity A+e2iωtB+e−2iωtB∗, and the same clause gives ∥A∥≤ℏ2(∣Δ∣+∣Ω1∣/2) and ∥B∥=ℏ∣Ω1∣/4, i.e. ∥A/ℏ∥≤12(∣Δ∣+∣Ω1∣/2) and ∥B/ℏ∥=∣Ω1∣/4. This is clause (a).

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[Rotating-wave error contract] The transformed family is HR(t)=A+e2iωtB+e−2iωtB∗ with A self-adjoint bounded and B bounded, and the frequency 2ω is nonzero, so the supplier [F2] applies with its ω replaced by 2ω and its A,B replaced by A,B: for s≤t, ∥UlR(t,s)−e−i(t−s)A/ℏ∥≤4∥B/ℏ∥2∣ω∣[1+(t−s)(∥A/ℏ∥+2∥B/ℏ∥)]. By step 1.1, 4∥B/ℏ∥/(2∣ω∣)=∣Ω1∣/(2∣ω∣) and ∥A/ℏ∥+2∥B/ℏ∥≤12(∣Δ∣+∣Ω1∣/2)+∣Ω1∣/2=∣Δ∣/2+3∣Ω1∣/4, which gives ε(∣t−s∣); the case t<s is the adjoint of the case s<t since both propagators are unitary, and τ=∣t−s∣ is symmetric. This is clause (b).

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[Population comparison] Let ψ(s)=e↑ and, for the actual endpoints s,t∈I, put u:=UlR(t,s)e↑ and v:=e−i(t−s)A/ℏe↑. By [F1] clause (e), the exact down-population equals ∥P↓u∥2: indeed ψR(t)=R(t)ψ(t)=eiωs/2u, and the scalar phase has modulus one. The averaged down-population is ∥P↓v∥2 because the averaged family is autonomous with generator A and [F3] applies with δ=Δ, Ω=Ω1/2; its Rabi formula depends on t−s through a squared sine and therefore equals the displayed function of τ=∣t−s∣ for either time ordering (and it is 0 when Ω1=0 since then A is diagonal in the up/down basis). Both vectors are unit vectors because the propagators are unitary. Setting Q:=P↓, a projection, and using Q=Q∗=Q2, ∣∥Qu∥2−∥Qv∥2∣=∣⟨Q(u−v),Qu⟩+⟨Qv,Q(u−v)⟩∣≤∥u−v∥(∥Qu∥+∥Qv∥)≤2∥u−v∥ by Cauchy-Schwarz and ∥Q∥≤1; with ∥u−v∥≤ε(∣t−s∣) from clause (b), the displayed population bound follows. At Δ=0 the formula reads sin⁡2(∣Ω1∣τ/4) because Ω12/4=∣Ω1∣/2. This is clause (c).

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[Scope] The contract bounds the exact rotating-frame propagator against the averaged one by a bound linear in τ, so it is a finite-time statement and no uniform-in-time approximation, resonance width or rate was formed; the averaged family is a computational surrogate, not the model's dynamics, and no measurement or empirical comparison entered, which is clause (d).

Remarks

  • Where the error comes from. The two counter-rotating terms e±2iωtB are exactly the pieces dropped by the rotating-wave approximation; the supplier's integration by parts converts their size ∥B∥ and frequency 2∣ω∣ into the prefactor ∣Ω1∣/(2∣ω∣) and their time-dependence into the linear-in-τ factor. For a specified operator-norm tolerance η>0, the sufficient condition supplied by the contract is ε(τ)≤η, which depends on both detuning and coupling. When Ω1=0 the comparison is exact for every elapsed time; a large value of this upper bound alone does not establish failure of the approximation.
  • Circular versus linear. For the circular family the corresponding counter-rotating term is absent and the reduction of the companion theorem is exact; the linear family retains it, and the difference between the two theorems is a property of the declared drive, not of the frame.
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The declared adiabatic protocol model: slow parameter, followed spectral subspace, uniform gap and leakage probability

Physical scope

The adiabatic-protocol reading of the driven model: a slowly varying family of self-adjoint energies on the unit slow-time interval in one of two declared regularity branches, interpreted as the energy of the system at physical time t = sT for a protocol duration T, the propagator carrying the protocol evolution, a followed spectral subspace with a uniform positive gap and coherent following, and the leakage probability of an initial preparation in that subspace. The definition adopts the protocol as a model assumption and fixes terminology; it asserts no theorem about the size of the leakage (supplied by the page's theorems), no laboratory ramp, no branch selection, no relaxation and no empirical result.

Definition

(a) Framework data. Adopt the framework data and readings of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models clauses (a), (d) (P1, P2 and P4 and their state, observable and evolution readings; units of Dimensions, SI unit conventions and quantity types of the framework); assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice) as the choice hypotheses of the cited spectral and evolution suppliers. The autonomous-dynamics postulate P4 is adopted in the reading of Autonomous dynamics postulate P4: self-adjoint generators and unitary evolution; the protocol below is the reading of its clause (iv) for slowly varying families.

(b) The declared slow family. As an additional model assumption of the pair, fix a protocol duration T>0 (seconds), the slow parameter s∈[0,1], and a family s↦H(s) of self-adjoint operators on the declared state space H (Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators, Hilbert space), read as the model's energy at slow time s, in one of the two declared regularity branches:

The family is prescribed model data: no laboratory ramp, field source or feedback is assumed. The protocol propagator is the unique unitary family UT(s,σ) on H solving the slow-time Schroedinger equation iℏ ∂sUT(s,σ)=T H(s)UT(s,σ),UT(σ,σ)=I,0≤σ≤s≤1, whose existence is cited from the mathematics: in branch (f) the family s↦TH(s)/ℏ is norm-continuous with bounded self-adjoint values and UT is its Dyson propagator (Norm Dyson series and uniqueness), and in branch (u) the family s↦TH(s)/ℏ lies in C1([0,1];B(Y,H)) and UT is its strong propagator (Common-domain nonautonomous evolution). The displayed differential equation holds in operator norm in branch (f); in branch (u) it is applied to each y∈Y, with derivative in H and UT(s,σ)Y=Y. Derivatives at endpoints are one-sided. The model's evolution in physical time is ψ(t):=UT(t/T,0)ψ(0) for t∈[0,T], and the evolved preparation is ρ(t):=UT(t/T,0)ρ(0)UT(t/T,0)∗, read as in clause (d) of The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models.

(c) Followed spectral subspace and uniform gap. Write EH(s) for the spectral projection-valued measure of H(s) in Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework clause (b), with the projection-valued-measure conventions of Projection valued measure. Fix a label: for branch (f) a spectral cluster, meaning a subset σP(s)⊆σ(H(s)) of the finite spectrum (Discrete and essential spectrum of a self-adjoint operator), with P(s):=EH(s)(σP(s)); for branch (u) a labelled eigenvalue E(s) with 1≤dim⁡ker⁡(H(s)−E(s)I)<∞, with σP(s):={E(s)} and P(s):=EH(s)({E(s)}). Here dist⁡(A,B):=inf⁡{∣a−b∣:a∈A,b∈B}, with inf⁡∅=+∞. The label is declared uniformly gapped when dist⁡(σP(s), σ(H(s))∖σP(s))≥g>0(s∈[0,1]) in branch (f), respectively dist⁡({E(s)},σ(H(s))∖{E(s)})≥g>0 in branch (u). For such a label, coherently followed means that s↦P(s) is continuous in operator norm and has the following local Riesz continuation property. For every s0∈[0,1] there is a relative neighborhood J of s0 and a fixed finite collection of circles Γj with pairwise disjoint closed discs, each centered at one of the distinct eigenvalues in σP(s0) and containing no other point of σ(H(s0)). There is one circle for each such eigenvalue (one circle in branch (u)). Parametrize each circle counterclockwise by zj(θ)=cj+rjeiθ, 0≤θ≤2π, with rj>0. For every s∈J and every z on these circles, zI−H(s):D(H(s))→H is bijective with bounded inverse on H, and P(s)=12πi∑j∫02π(zj(θ)I−H(s))−1zj′(θ) dθ. Each integral means the limit in B(H) of Riemann sums of its norm-continuous integrand. For an empty cluster in branch (f) the circle collection and sum are empty and P(s)=0 on J; a full cluster is allowed. The local formulas agree on overlaps as the same prescribed P(s) and thus specify continuation along [0,1] from P(0), without selecting instantaneous eigenvectors. This is a condition on the prescribed label, not a claim that an arbitrary choice of labels satisfies it. A preparation in the subspace is a preparation with ρ(0)=P(0)ρ(0)P(0); for a unit vector ψ(0)∈ran⁡P(0) the leakage probability at slow time s is the model's outcome probability pleak(s):=μψ(sT)(I−P(s))({1})=∥(I−P(s))ψ(sT)∥2,ψ(sT)=UT(s,0)ψ(0), that is, the Born probability in the reading of P2 that the evolved preparation is found outside the followed subspace at slow time s (Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework, The state space: density operators, pure and mixed states, and purity; State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems, Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes).

(d) Status and scope. Clauses (b)-(c) adopt the protocol as an idealization and fix its vocabulary. The size of the leakage is not part of the definition: it is the content of the adiabatic theorems of the page, which are conditional on the uniform gap and on coherent following. The definition asserts no claim that a laboratory ramp realizes the family, no selection or relaxation of a branch by the protocol, no thermalization, no measurement record and no empirical result; whether a laboratory preparation realizes a preparation in the declared subspace is a tested identification in the sense of P7.

Remarks

  • Two branches, two theorems. The finite and common-domain branches are declared separately because their mathematics differ: the finite branch uses the norm-continuous Dyson propagator and a finite-dimensional contour construction, the common-domain branch uses the strong propagator and graph-norm regularity. The page's two adiabatic theorems prove the leakage bounds for the corresponding branches and add no assumption to this definition.
  • The gap belongs to the family, not to the protocol. The uniform gap is a property of the prescribed family and its label, independent of T; the protocol duration enters only through the slow-time equation. This separation is what makes the 1/T estimates of the page meaningful.
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Finite-dimensional gapped protocol: the 1/T leakage estimate, the intertwining propagator and the Born leakage probability

Physical scope

The declared finite-dimensional adiabatic protocol: regularity of the followed cluster projection, the intertwining of the modified propagator, the operator-norm leakage estimate ||(I-P(s))U_T(s)P(0)|| <= C/T with the explicit constant, and the resulting Born leakage and survival probabilities of an initial preparation in the followed subspace. The theorem is conditional on the finite branch, a uniform positive gap and coherent following; it asserts no unbounded family, no gap closing, no laboratory ramp, no branch selection and no empirical result.

Statement

Adopt the declared adiabatic protocol of The declared adiabatic protocol model: slow parameter, followed spectral subspace, uniform gap and leakage probability in its finite branch (f): H=Cd for some d≥1, H∈C2([0,1];Herm⁡(Cd)), T>0 and UT(s,σ) the protocol propagator, and let P(s) be the spectral projection of H(s) for a spectral cluster σP(s) that is uniformly gapped with dist⁡(σP(s),σ(H(s))∖σP(s))≥g>0(s∈[0,1]) and coherently followed in the sense of the protocol definition (continuity in operator norm, equivalently the local Riesz continuation of P(0)). Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice). Then:

(a) Regularity of the followed cluster. P∈C2([0,1];End⁡(Cd)), the commutator K(s):=[P′(s),P(s)] is anti-Hermitian of class C1 with [K(s),P(s)]=P′(s), and there is a C1 Hermitian family X(s) with [H(s),X(s)]=K(s) for every s∈[0,1].

(b) Intertwining. Let UA solve i ∂sUA(s)=(TH(s)/ℏ+iK(s))UA(s), UA(0)=I (equivalently UA′=(−iTH/ℏ+K)UA). Then P(s)UA(s)=UA(s)P(0) for every s∈[0,1].

(c) Leakage estimate. With C:=ℏ(2sup⁡s∈[0,1]∥X(s)∥+∫01(∥X′(s)∥+∥K(s)∥ ∥X(s)∥) ds)<∞, one has, for every s∈[0,1], ∥(I−P(s))UT(s)P(0)∥≤CT, and therefore, for every unit vector ψ(0)∈ran⁡P(0) with ψ(sT)=UT(s,0)ψ(0), pleak(s)=∥(I−P(s))ψ(sT)∥2≤C2T2,⟨P(s)ψ(sT),ψ(sT)⟩≥1−C2T2. The same Born leakage and survival bounds hold for every supported mixed preparation ρ0=P(0)ρ0P(0), with ρ(s)=UT(s,0)ρ0UT(s,0)∗ and pleak(s)=tr⁡(ρ(s)(I−P(s))).

(d) Scope. The estimate is conditional on the uniform positive gap, on coherent following and on the finite branch; the constant C depends on the family and its label, not on T. The theorem asserts no statement for gap-closing families, no unbounded or common-domain family (which is the subject of the companion theorem), no laboratory protocol, no branch selection or relaxation, and no empirical result.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the declared finite-branch adiabatic protocol with family H, duration T, gap g, followed projection P and propagator UT; a unit vector ψ(0)∈ran⁡P(0) and s∈[0,1]; the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice.

[F1]

Finite gapped adiabatic supplier and physical scaling. Applied to the normalized generator A=H/ℏ, Finite gapped adiabatic estimate gives P∈C2, K=[P′,P], [K,P]=P′ and a C1 Hermitian XA with [A,XA]=K. Its modified propagator solves iUA′=(TA+iK)UA, intertwines P, and its leakage constant is CA=2sup⁡∥XA∥+∫01(∥XA′∥+∥K∥∥XA∥). Put X=XA/ℏ; then [H,X]=K and CA=ℏ(2sup⁡∥X∥+∫01(∥X′∥+∥K∥∥X∥)). The normalized protocol generator TH/ℏ has the unitary Dyson propagator (Norm Dyson series and uniqueness), which solves exactly the physical equation iℏUT′=THUT.

[F2]

Protocol readings. The protocol declares UT as its propagator, P(s) as the followed subspace and pleak(s)=∥(I−P(s))ψ(sT)∥2 as the leakage probability of a unit initial vector in ran⁡P(0) (The declared adiabatic protocol model: slow parameter, followed spectral subspace, uniform gap and leakage probability clauses (b), (c)); the probability is the Born outcome probability of the projection I−P(s) in the evolved preparation, in the P2 reading (Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework clauses (a), (b); State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems; Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes; The state space: density operators, pure and mixed states, and purity; Dimensions, SI unit conventions and quantity types of the framework).

[F3]

Norm and inner-product estimates. For a bounded operator B and a vector v one has ∥Bv∥≤∥B∥∥v∥ (A bounded linear operator between normed spaces, The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum); for a projection Q and unit v the identity ∥Qv∥2+∥(I−Q)v∥2=∥v∥2=1 holds in the inner product of Cd (Real and complex inner product spaces, with the inner product linear in the first argument; Cauchy–Schwarz: ∣⟨u,v⟩∣≤∥u∥∥v∥, with equality exactly for linearly dependent vectors); and I−P(s) is again a projection because P(s) is an orthogonal spectral projection.

[F4]

Supported densities. Every density has a trace-norm convergent orthonormal expansion with positive eigenvalue weights ρ0=∑jwjTuj,uj, ∑jwj=1, and its projection probabilities are the weighted pure projection probabilities (Density operators and scalar spectral probability, Statement(a),(b)).

Proof

technique · direct; instantiate the finite gapped adiabatic supplier at the protocol data and convert its operator-norm leakage estimate into the Born leakage probability

Given: the data of the Statement and [F1]-[F4].

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[Regularity, commutator and intertwining] The family A=H/ℏ is C² Hermitian with the same coherently followed spectral projections and gap g/ℏ>0. Applying [F1] and putting X=XA/ℏ gives P∈C2, the anti-Hermitian K=[P′,P] with [K,P]=P′, the C1 Hermitian X with [H,X]=K, and the intertwining P(s)UA(s)=UA(s)P(0). These are clauses (a) and (b).

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[Leakage operator estimate] [F1] gives ∥(I−P(s))UT(s)P(0)∥≤C/T with the displayed physical constant C=CA for every s∈[0,1]. This is the first display of clause (c).

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[Born leakage and survival] Let ψ(0)∈ran⁡P(0) be unit, so P(0)ψ(0)=ψ(0), and let ψ(sT)=UT(s,0)ψ(0), a unit vector because UT is unitary [F1]. Then (I−P(s))ψ(sT)=(I−P(s))UT(s,0)P(0)ψ(0), so ∥(I−P(s))ψ(sT)∥≤∥(I−P(s))UT(s,0)P(0)∥≤C/T by [F3] and step 2.1; squaring gives pleak(s)≤C2/T2 by [F2]. Since P(s) and I−P(s) are complementary projections on the unit vector ψ(sT), the survival probability is ⟨P(s)ψ(sT),ψ(sT)⟩=1−∥(I−P(s))ψ(sT)∥2≥1−C2/T2 by [F3]. This is the second and third display of clause (c).

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[Supported mixed preparations] Let ρ0=P(0)ρ0P(0). In the expansion of [F4], every vector of positive eigenvalue wj satisfies uj=wj−1ρ0uj∈ran⁡P(0). Unitary transport gives the same weights and orthonormal vectors UT(s,0)uj in the evolved density. By [F4], its leakage projection probability is ∑jwj∥(I−P(s))UT(s,0)uj∥2. The pure bound in step 3.1 holds for each such uj, so this sum is at most C2/T2 since ∑jwj=1. The complementary projection probability is 1−pleak(s)≥1−C2/T2. All operators in the trace expression are bounded projections; no unbounded-density product or eigenvector selection within the degenerate energy level is required.

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[Scope] The estimate used only the finite branch, the uniform gap g>0, the coherent following and the finite constant C, which does not depend on T; no gap-closing, unbounded, laboratory, selection or empirical statement entered, which is clause (d).

Remarks

  • What the theorem replaces. The sources motivate the adiabatic behaviour of a gapped level by the slowness of the perturbation; the theorem replaces that qualitative statement by the explicit operator bound C/T and the Born bound C2/T2, valid uniformly on [0,1] and only under the stated gap and following hypotheses.
  • Why coherent following is a hypothesis. Without the uniform gap the Riesz projection of the initial cluster need not be defined away from s=0; the protocol therefore declares the followed cluster together with the gap, and both enter the constant through X and K.
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The slowly varying one-centre Coulomb source: verified uniform gap of the n-th level and the 1/T leakage estimate

Physical scope

The declared one-centre Coulomb model with a prescribed C^2 path of the external source strength (the coupling kappa): the identification of the n-th Coulomb level and of its n^2-fold eigenspace along the path, the verification of a uniform positive gap from the model's spectrum theorem with the explicit rational lower bound, and the operator-norm and Born leakage estimates for an initial preparation in that level under the slowly varying source. The theorem concerns the declared external-source model only; it asserts no laboratory field or control, no linear Stark coupling, no transition rate, no branch selection and no empirical result.

Statement

Adopt the declared one-centre Coulomb model of The declared Coulomb and two-body hydrogen model: one-centre operator, relative problem, reduced mass and scope exclusions clauses (a)-(c) with mass parameter m>0, action constant ℏ>0 and declared coupling κ>0 of unit J m, and its energy operator Hκ=ℏ22mCγ, Cγ=−Δ−γ/∣⋅∣ on Y=H2(R3;C) with γ=2mκ/ℏ2. Adopt the declared adiabatic protocol of The declared adiabatic protocol model: slow parameter, followed spectral subspace, uniform gap and leakage probability in its common-domain branch (u) with the following declared source-strength family: a prescribed path κ∈C2([0,1];(0,∞)) with 0<κmin⁡≤κ(s)≤κmax⁡<∞, the family H(s):=Hκ(s),γ(s):=2mκ(s)ℏ2,A(s):=−Δ−γ(s)∣⋅∣,D(A(s))=Y, read as the model's energy at slow time s, a protocol duration T>0 (seconds), and the protocol propagator UT defined by iℏ∂sUT(s,σ)=TH(s)UT(s,σ), UT(σ,σ)=I. For this prescribed positive C2 path, the exact common domain, uniform graph-norm equivalence and C2([0,1];B(Y,L2)) regularity are consequences of the Coulomb bound, proved below; they require no additional admissibility assumption on the path. Fix n≥1 and let Pn(s) be the spectral projection of H(s) for its n-th level. Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω), The Axiom of Choice). Then:

(a) Level, degeneracy and uniform gap. For every s∈[0,1] the number En(s)=−mκ(s)22ℏ2n2=ℏ22m(−γ(s)24n2) is an eigenvalue of H(s) with eigenspace of dimension n2, the spectrum of H(s) has no eigenvalues in [0,∞), its essential spectrum is [0,∞), and the complementary distance of the level is bounded below uniformly by dist⁡(En(s),σ(H(s))∖{En(s)}) ≥ ℏ22m δn γmin⁡2 =: gn > 0,δn:=2n+14n2(n+1)2,γmin⁡=2mκmin⁡ℏ2. Consequently Pn∈C2([0,1];B(L2,Y)), and the family of projections s↦Pn(s) is a uniformly gapped, coherently followed label of the protocol in the sense of The declared adiabatic protocol model: slow parameter, followed spectral subspace, uniform gap and leakage probability clause (c).

(b) Leakage estimate. There is a constant Cn<∞, depending only on n, on the mass parameter m, on ℏ and on κmin⁡,κmax⁡ and the C2 norm of the path κ (that is, on the data of the declared family), such that for every s∈[0,1] ∥(I−Pn(s))UT(s,0)Pn(0)∥≤CnT, and therefore, for every unit vector ψ(0)∈ran⁡Pn(0) with ψ(t)=UT(t/T,0)ψ(0), pleak(s)=∥(I−Pn(s))ψ(sT)∥2≤Cn2T2,⟨Pn(s)ψ(sT),ψ(sT)⟩≥1−Cn2T2. The same Born leakage and survival bounds hold for every supported mixed preparation ρ0=Pn(0)ρ0Pn(0), with ρ(s)=UT(s,0)ρ0UT(s,0)∗ and pleak(s)=tr⁡(ρ(s)(I−Pn(s))).

(c) Scope. The theorem concerns the declared external-source family only: the coupling path is a prescribed source strength of the one-centre model, not an applied laboratory field, and the statement asserts no laboratory control, no linear Stark coupling (which has no uniformly gapped branch), no transition rate, no branch selection or relaxation, and no empirical result.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the declared one-centre Coulomb model with parameters m,ℏ,κ and the source-strength path κ(⋅); the family H(s)=Hκ(s), γ(s)=2mκ(s)/ℏ2, A(s); the duration T and propagator UT; the label n≥1 and projections Pn(s); the Axiom of Countable Choice and the Axiom of Choice.

[F1]

Coulomb model data. Hκ=ℏ22mCγ is self-adjoint on the exact domain Y=H2(R3;C) (Integer-order Sobolev spaces and their norms) for every κ>0, with γ=2mκ/ℏ2, and (Hκ,J) is the model's declared energy observable with length scale aκ=ℏ2/(mκ) and energy scale ℏ2/(2maκ2) (The declared Coulomb and two-body hydrogen model: one-centre operator, relative problem, reduced mass and scope exclusions clauses (a)-(c)).

[F2]

Coulomb spectrum. For the fixed coupling κ: Ψnlm∈D(Hκ) are unit eigenvectors with HκΨnlm=EnΨnlm, En=−mκ2/(2ℏ2n2); the eigenvalues of Hκ are exactly the numbers En, n≥1, the eigenspace at En has dimension ∑l=0n−1(2l+1)=n2, and Hκ has no eigenvalues in [0,+∞), whose spectral content is entirely essential spectrum [0,+∞) (The one-centre Coulomb model: bound energies, n^2-degeneracy, completeness of the bound states in the negative spectral subspace and the continuum clauses (a)-(c), together with the essential-spectrum statement in clause (b)). The same statements hold for the scalar multiple A(s)=2mℏ2Hκ(s), with eigenvalues multiplied by 2m/ℏ2.

[F3]

Atomic adiabatic supplier. For A(s)=−Δ−γ(s)/∣⋅∣ on Y with γ∈C2([0,1];(0,∞)), 0<γmin⁡≤γ(s)≤γmax⁡<∞, if en(s)=−γ(s)2/(4n2) is the named eigenvalue with uniform complementary gap g>0 and UT solves i∂sUT=TA(s)UT, then there is C<∞, depending on n,γmin⁡,γmax⁡ and the C2 norm of γ, with ∥(I−Pn(s))UT(s)Pn(0)∥≤C/T for s∈[0,1] (Unbounded gapped atomic adiabatic estimate); the strong propagator UT of the common-domain family exists and is unique (Common-domain nonautonomous evolution).

[F4]

Protocol readings. The protocol declares UT as its propagator, Pn(s) as a followed spectral projection when the label is uniformly gapped and coherently followed, and pleak(s)=∥(I−Pn(s))ψ(sT)∥2 as the Born leakage probability of a unit initial vector in ran⁡Pn(0) (The declared adiabatic protocol model: slow parameter, followed spectral subspace, uniform gap and leakage probability clauses (b), (c); Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework clauses (a), (b); State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems; Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes; The state space: density operators, pure and mixed states, and purity; Dimensions, SI unit conventions and quantity types of the framework).

[F5]

Spectral and norm readings. σ(Hκ) and the projections are those of Discrete and essential spectrum of a self-adjoint operator and Projection valued measure; for a bounded B and vector v, ∥Bv∥≤∥B∥∥v∥ and complementary projections Q, I−Q satisfy ∥Qv∥2+∥(I−Q)v∥2=∥v∥2 (A bounded linear operator between normed spaces, The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum, Hilbert space, Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators).

[F6]

Exact-domain Coulomb estimate and graph control. For B=−Δ on Y=H2, Mu=u/∣x∣ and every η>0, ∥Mu∥2≤η∥Bu∥2+η−1∥u∥2; B−γM is self-adjoint on exactly Y for every γ>0 (Coulomb infinitesimal kinetic bound clauses (a),(c)). The fixed Fourier/Sobolev norm satisfies ∥u∥Y≤c0(∥u∥2+∥Bu∥2), and B:Y→L2 is bounded; the uniform graph and C2 operator estimates are also supplied explicitly by Unbounded gapped atomic adiabatic estimate proof 1.1. Its proof 3.1 supplies the resolvent/PVM contour argument and inverse derivative formulas on the same exact domain, used explicitly below.

[F7]

Supported densities. Every density has a trace-norm convergent orthonormal expansion with positive eigenvalue weights ρ0=∑jwjTuj,uj, ∑jwj=1, and its projection probabilities are the weighted pure projection probabilities (Density operators and scalar spectral probability, Statement(a),(b)).

Proof

technique · direct; identify the scaled physical family with the supplier's normalized Coulomb family, derive common-domain regularity, verify the uniform gap and coherent Riesz following from the model's spectrum theorem, and rescale the supplier's $1/T$ estimate to physical time

Given: the data of the Statement and [F1]-[F7].

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[Common domain and automatic regularity] Put B=−Δ, Mu=u/∣x∣ and γmax⁡=2mκmax⁡/ℏ2. By [F6], each A(s)=B−γ(s)M is self-adjoint on exactly the dense Hilbert domain Y=H2, continuously embedded in L2. Choose η=(2γmax⁡)−1. For every u∈Y, γ(s)∥Mu∥2≤12∥Bu∥2+2γmax⁡2∥u∥2, whence ∥A(s)u∥2≤32∥Bu∥2+2γmax⁡2∥u∥2 and ∥Bu∥2≤2∥A(s)u∥2+4γmax⁡2∥u∥2. Together with the fixed Fourier/Sobolev equivalence of [F6], these give uniform equivalence between ∥u∥Y and ∥u∥2+∥A(s)u∥2. Also M:Y→L2 is bounded, by the same estimate, so A∈C2([0,1];B(Y,L2)) with A′=−γ′M and A′′=−γ′′M. All these norms are controlled by γmax⁡ and ∥γ∥C2. Positive multiplication by ℏ2/(2m) gives the same exact domain and uniform graph equivalence for H(s) and yields H′=−κ′M, H′′=−κ′′M. Thus every stated positive C2 path automatically satisfies branch (u); [F3] supplies the unique domain-preserving unitary propagator for the self-adjoint C1 family TH(s)/ℏ on Y.

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[Correct adjacent gaps and the whole level] By [F1] and [F2], H(s)=(ℏ2/(2m))A(s) has eigenvalues exactly En(s)=−(ℏ2/(2m))γ(s)2/(4n2), each eigenspace having dimension n2; its nonnegative spectrum is the essential interval [0,∞) and contains no eigenvalue. Since E1<E2<⋯<0, the complementary distance at En is the minimum of the positive differences En+1−En, En−En−1 when n≥2, and ∣En∣. Dividing by (ℏ2/(2m))γ(s)2 gives, respectively, δn=(2n+1)/(4n2(n+1)2), (2n−1)/(4n2(n−1)2) and 1/(4n2). The first is the smallest: 2n+1≤(n+1)2, and (2n−1)(n+1)2−(2n+1)(n−1)2=6n2−2>0 for n≥2. Hence the distance is exactly (ℏ2/(2m))γ(s)2δn≥gn>0. For the normalized family A(s) this gives the uniform bound g~n=δnγmin⁡2>0, with gn=(ℏ2/(2m))g~n. The eigenprojection refers to the entire n2-dimensional space; no vector or sublevel is selected.

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[Projection regularity and coherent local Riesz following] Write en(s)=−γ(s)2/(4n2), ρ=g~n/3 and z(s,θ)=en(s)+ρeiθ. Step 2.1 gives spectral distance at least ρ on this circle. The exact-domain resolvent R(s,θ)=(z(s,θ)−A(s))−1 therefore has L2 norm at most ρ−1 by the contour/PVM argument in [F6]. The identity A(s)R=zR−I and step 1.1's uniform graph bound give a uniform L2→Y bound, since z is uniformly bounded by the path data. Put Bj(s)=A(j)(s)−en(j)(s)I:Y→L2 for j=1,2. The inverse equations on these exact spaces give joint continuity and C2 regularity in s by the local Neumann identity; differentiating gives R′=RB1R and R′′=RB2R+2RB1RB1R in B(L2,Y). These derivatives are uniformly bounded by the established bounds and ∥γ∥C2. Thus Pn(s)=(ρ/(2π))∫02πeiθR(s,θ) dθ is C2 in B(L2,Y); the PVM contour formula of [F6] identifies this integral with the full eigenprojection, and positive energy scaling leaves that eigenspace and projection unchanged. For any s0, continuity of en gives a neighborhood with ∣en(s)−en(s0)∣<ρ/2. The fixed circle ∣z−en(s0)∣=ρ then encloses en(s) and excludes the rest of the spectrum, whose distance from its center is at least g~n−ρ/2>ρ. Its resolvents have the same local C2 inverse construction, and its Riesz integral is exactly Pn(s). On overlapping neighborhoods the integrals agree as the same named spectral projection. Therefore Pn is norm-continuous and coincides with coherent local Riesz continuation from Pn(0) in [F4], proving the final assertion of (a).

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[Rescaling the supplier] By [F1] the family A(s) satisfies the hypotheses of [F3] with γmin⁡=2mκmin⁡/ℏ2 and γmax⁡=2mκmax⁡/ℏ2, and by step 2.1 the normalized named eigenvalue has the uniform gap g~n>0, with coherent C2 projection supplied by step 3.1, so [F3] supplies a constant C<∞ with the normalized bound ∥(I−Pn(s))USA(s)Pn(0)∥≤C/S, where USA solves i∂sUSA=SA(s)USA. The physical family is H(s)=ℏ22mA(s), so the physical equation iℏ∂sUT=TH(s)UT is i∂sUT=Tℏ2mA(s)UT; hence UT=USA with S=Tℏ2m and the normalized bound becomes ∥(I−Pn(s))UT(s)Pn(0)∥≤2mC/(ℏT). Setting Cn:=2mCℏ (seconds; finite, depending only on n,m,ℏ and the path data through γ) gives the operator bound of clause (b).

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[Born leakage and survival] Let ψ(0)∈ran⁡Pn(0) be unit, so Pn(0)ψ(0)=ψ(0); UT(s,0) is unitary, so ψ(sT) is unit, and (I−Pn(s))ψ(sT)=(I−Pn(s))UT(s,0)Pn(0)ψ(0); the operator bound of step 4.1 and [F5] give ∥(I−Pn(s))ψ(sT)∥≤Cn/T, whose square is pleak(s) by [F4], and the survival probability is 1−pleak(s)≥1−Cn2/T2 by [F5]. This is clause (b).

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[Supported mixed preparations] Let ρ0=Pn(0)ρ0Pn(0). In the expansion of [F7], every vector of positive eigenvalue wj satisfies uj=wj−1ρ0uj∈ran⁡Pn(0). Unitary transport gives the same weights and orthonormal vectors UT(s,0)uj in the evolved density. By [F7], its leakage projection probability is ∑jwj∥(I−Pn(s))UT(s,0)uj∥2. The pure bound in step 5.1 holds for each such uj, so this sum is at most Cn2/T2 since ∑jwj=1. The complementary projection probability is 1−pleak(s)≥1−Cn2/T2. All operators in the trace expression are bounded projections; no unbounded-density product or eigenvector selection within the degenerate energy level is required.

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[Scope] The identification used only the declared one-centre model, its spectrum theorem and the normalized adiabatic supplier; the coupling path is an external source strength of that model, no laboratory field, Stark coupling, rate, selection or empirical comparison entered, which is clause (c).

Remarks

  • Where the physics is added. The supplier proves the estimate for the abstract family A(s)=−Δ−γ(s)/∣⋅∣; the theorem adds the identification of that family with the declared Coulomb model at a prescribed source strength, the verification of the uniform gap from the model's own spectrum theorem with the explicit rational constant δn, and the conversion of the supplier's slow-time parameter to the physical protocol duration.
  • Automatic regularity for the stated path. The Hardy/infinitesimal kinetic bound proves the exact common H2 domain, uniform graph-norm equivalence and C2(H2→L2) regularity for every prescribed positive C2 source-strength path. The explicit contour construction proves C2 projection regularity and coherent Riesz following for the entire n2-dimensional eigenspace. No additional path-admissibility or eigenvector-selection assumption is needed.
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Scope and empirical status of the page: what is adopted, what is proved, and what is excluded

Physical scope

The scope of the driven-dynamics pair: the model assumptions it adopts (the driven-dynamics reading of P4 clause (iv), the two declared two-level drive models and the declared adiabatic protocol), the statements it proves, the physical situations it excludes, and its empirical status. The remark records no observation, no measured quantity and no uncertainty, and asserts no laboratory identification.

What the page adopts

The page works inside the framework's postulates P1, P2, P4 and P7 (State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems, Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes, Autonomous dynamics postulate P4: self-adjoint generators and unitary evolution, Preparation and apparatus postulate P7: declared preparations, isolation and sampling assumptions) and adopts, as additional model assumptions, the driven-dynamics reading of clause (iv) of P4 in The declared driven model: prescribed time-dependent energy families, propagator evolution and the two-level drive models: a prescribed time-dependent self-adjoint energy family in one of three regularity classes, carried by a unitary two-time propagator, with the evolved preparation and outcome-law readings and with the two declared two-level drive models of its clause (f). The interaction picture of the declared driven model: readings, the interaction propagator and picture equivalence of outcome laws fixes the interaction-picture readings, and The declared adiabatic protocol model: slow parameter, followed spectral subspace, uniform gap and leakage probability fixes the slow-family protocol, its followed spectral subspace and its leakage probability. All three are readings and model assumptions, not derived statements.

What the page proves

The bounded norm-continuous driven model: unique unitary propagator, Dyson truncation budget and outcome-law error proves well-posedness, the Dyson truncation budget and the outcome-law error in the bounded norm-continuous class; The bounded-control driven model: mild propagator, interaction-picture evolution and equivalence of the two readings proves the mild propagator and the equivalence of the Schroedinger and interaction readings in the bounded-control class; First-order transition amplitudes for a bounded control: Dyson remainder, the sinusoidal drive with its co- and counter-rotating parts, and the outcome-probability error proves the first-order amplitude with its explicit Dyson remainder and the closed sinusoidal drive with the co- and counter-rotating parts and the linear-in-time resonant growth; The common-domain driven model: strong propagator with domain invariance, and the driven oscillator as its declared instance proves the strong propagator and its domain invariance in the common-domain class and verifies the driven oscillator as an instance; The circularly driven two-level model: exact rotating-frame reduction, Rabi populations, resonance and inversion times proves the exact rotating-frame reduction and Rabi populations of the declared circular two-level model; The linearly driven two-level model: rotating-wave approximation with an explicit finite-time error contract and the averaged Rabi populations proves the rotating-wave error contract for the linearly polarized model with the bound on the population difference; and Finite-dimensional gapped protocol: the 1/T leakage estimate, the intertwining propagator and the Born leakage probability and The slowly varying one-centre Coulomb source: verified uniform gap of the n-th level and the 1/T leakage estimate prove the 1/T leakage estimates in the finite and Coulomb-family branches. Every one of these is a conditional consequence of the adopted model data, the cited mathematics and P1, P2 and P4.

What the page excludes

The page asserts no open-system or environment coupling, no non-unitary reduced dynamics, no thermalization or equilibration, no Fermi golden rule, no transition rate, no exponential decay, no resonance width, no spontaneous emission, no measurement or apparatus model and no branch selection by a ramping protocol; in particular the rotating-wave contract of The linearly driven two-level model: rotating-wave approximation with an explicit finite-time error contract and the averaged Rabi populations is linear in the elapsed time and gives no uniform-in-time approximation, the first-order amplitude theorem is a finite-time statement with an explicit remainder, and the adiabatic theorems are conditional on a uniform positive gap and coherent following. The uncompressed linear Stark coupling is not a bounded perturbation and does not appear.

Empirical status

The page records no experiment, no measured population, rate, frequency or lifetime, and no uncertainty record; its sources are mathematical and textbook treatments of the models, not experimental reports, so no measured value, no sampling model and no statistical inference enters any statement. The identification of a laboratory two-level system, spin, molecule or slowly varying source with the declared models and their parameters is a tested identification in the sense of P7 with its own uncertainty; agreement of a model computation with data would be evidence about the combined model and apparatus assumptions, not a proof of the framework.

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