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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 77, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.042319
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We provide rigorous bounds for the error of the adiabatic approximation of quantum mechanics under four sources of experimental error: perturbations in the initial condition, systematic time-dependent perturbations in the Hamiltonian, coupling to low-energy quantum systems, and decoherent time-dependent perturbations in the Hamiltonian. For decoherent perturbations, we find both upper and lower bounds on the evolution time to guarantee that the adiabatic approximation performs within a prescribed tolerance. Our results include explicit definitions of constants, and we apply them to the spin-1/2 particle in a rotating magnetic field and to the superconducting flux qubit. We compare the theoretical bounds on the superconducting flux qubit to simulation results.
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