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Sergey Shevchenko N.
Publication date
2018
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Physics
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English
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A periodically driven quantum system with avoided-level crossing experiences both non-adiabatic transitions and wave-function phase changes. These result in coherent interference fringes in the systems occupation probabilities. For qubits, with repelling energy levels, such interference, named after Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg-Majorana, displays arc-shaped resonance lines. We demonstrate that in the case of a multi-level system with an avoided-level crossing of the two lower levels, the shape of the resonances can change from convex arcs to concave heart-shaped and harp-shaped resonance lines. In this way, the shape of such resonance fringes is defined by the whole spectrum, providing insight on the slow-frequency system spectroscopy. As a particular example, we consider this for valley-orbit silicon quantum dots.
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