Refuting a Proposed Axiom for Defining the Exact Rotating Wave Approximation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02751v1
• Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 14:16:18 GMT
• Title: Refuting a Proposed Axiom for Defining the Exact Rotating Wave Approximation
• Abstract summary: This work introduces an effective Hamiltonian series $mathcal H_texteff$ generating smoothed qubit trajectories. Since, however, this Hamiltonian series is not guaranteed to converge for arbitrary pulse shapes, we hypothesize an axiomatic definition of the effective Hamiltonian. We numerically refute the validity of this third axiom via a variational minimization of the said integral.
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• Abstract: For a linearly driven quantum two-level system, or qubit, sets of stroboscropic points along the cycloidal-like trajectory in the rotating frame can be approximated using the exact rotating wave approximation introduced in arXiv:1807.02858. That work introduces an effective Hamiltonian series $\mathcal H_{\text{eff}}$ generating smoothed qubit trajectories; this series has been obtained using a combination of a Magnus expansion and a Taylor series, a Magnus-Taylor expansion. Since, however, this Hamiltonian series is not guaranteed to converge for arbitrary pulse shapes, the same work hypothesizes an axiomatic definition of the effective Hamiltonian. The first two of the proposed axioms define $\mathcal H_{\text{eff}}$ to (i) be analytic and (ii) generate a stroboscopic time evolution. In this work we probe a third axiom---motivated by the smoothed trajectories mentioned above---namely, (iii) a variational principle stating that the integral of the Hamiltonian's positive eigenvalue taken over the full pulse duration is minimized by this $\mathcal H_{\text{eff}}$. We numerically refute the validity of this third axiom via a variational minimization of the said integral.

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