The Majorana formula and the Landau-Zener-Stückelberg treatment of the avoided crossing problem
E.E. Nikitin a, b,
F.D. Dzhakomo c
a Max-Planck Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Tammannstrasse 6, Göttingen, D-37077, Germany
b Department of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
c Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Via del Castro Laurenziano 7, Rome, I-00161, Italy
The Majorana formula for the probability of spin-
flipping in a time-dependent magnetic field which almost
vanishes at a certain moment is discussed in connection with
the celebrated work by Landau, Zener, and Stuückelberg for
nonadiabatic dynamics in the avoided crossing situation.
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