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arXiv:2404.14841 · Physical Review A

Floquet dynamics of the Rabi model beyond the counter-rotating hybridized rotating-wave method

Yingying Han, Shuanghao Zhang, Meijuan Zhang, Q. Guan, Wenxian Zhang, Weidong Li

Published May 2, 2024• 2 citations
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Abstract

Monochromatically driven two-level systems (i.e., Rabi models) are ubiquitous in various fields of physics. Though they have been exactly solved, the physical pictures in these exact solutions are not clear. Recently, approximate analytical solutions with neat physics have been obtained by using the counter-rotating hybridized rotating wave (CHRW) method, which has been proven to be effective over a wider range of parameters than the previous analytical solutions. However, the CHRW depends on a parameter $\ensuremath{\xi}$, which has no solution in some regimes. Here, we combine the double-unitary-transformation approach with the generalized Van Vleck nearly degenerate perturbation theory, and present approximate analytical results with clear physics for almost all parameter regimes, which agree well with the numerical solutions and the previous experimental results. Moreover, the dynamic frequencies of the Rabi model are regular, and the frequency with the highest Fourier amplitude changes from the Rabi frequency to $2n\ensuremath{\omega}$ with driving frequency $\ensuremath{\omega}$ and integer $n$, as the driving intensity increases from weak to deep-strong. In addition, we further explore the Floquet dynamics of the dissipative open Rabi model. Remarkably, the dissipations are tunable in the rotating frame, and the approximate analytical results obtained by our method are in good agreement with the numerical results in the strong driving regime. These results pave the way to quantum control using strong and deep-strong driving with applications in quantum technologies.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.109.053704

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