Many examples of quantum independent stationary increment processes are solutions of quantum stochastic differential equations. We give a common characterization of these examples by a quantum stochastic differential equation on an abstract *-bialgebra. Specializing this abstract *-bialgebra and the coefficients of the equation, we obtain the equations for the Unitary Noncommutative Stochastic processes of [12], the Quantum Wiener Process [2], the Azéma martingales [11] and for other examples. The existence and uniqueness of a solution of the general equation is shown. Assuming the boundedness of this solution, we prove that it is a continuous and stationary independent increment process.
We derive an adiabatic theory for a stochastic differential equation, $ \varepsilon\, \mathrm{d} X(s) = L_1(s) X(s)\, \mathrm{d} s + \sqrt{\varepsilon} L_2(s) X(s) \, \mathrm{d} B_s, $ under a condition that instantaneous stationary states of
L1(s) are also stationary states of
L2(s). We use our results to derive the full statistics of tunneling for a driven stochastic Schrödinger equation describing a dephasing process.