Abstract
The Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg (LZS) effect in a model system of interacting tunneling particles is studied numerically and analytically. Each of N tunneling particles interacts with each of the others with the same coupling J. This problem maps onto that of the LZS effect for a large spin The mean-field limit corresponds to the classical limit for the effective spin. It is shown that the ferromagnetic coupling tends to suppress the LZS transitions. For there is a critical value of J above which the staying probability P does not go to zero in the slow sweep limit, unlike the standard LZS effect. For LZS transitions are boosted and for a set of finite values of the sweep rate for Various limiting cases such as strong and weak interaction, slow and fast sweep are considered analytically. It is shown that the mean-field approach works well for arbitrary N if the interaction J is weak.
- Received 5 February 2003
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.68.014414
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