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We consider quantum Hamiltonians of the form H(t)=H+V(t) where the spectrum of H is semibounded and discrete, and the eigenvalues behave as E n ∼n α, with 0<α<1. In particular, the gaps between successive eigenvalues decay as n α−1. V(t) is supposed to be periodic, bounded, continuously differentiable in the strong sense and such that the matrix entries with respect to the spectral decomposition of H obey the estimate ‖V(t) m,n ‖≤ε|m−n|−pmax {m,n}−2γ for m≠n, where ε>0, p≥1 and γ=(1−α)/2. We show that the energy diffusion exponent can be arbitrarily small provided p is sufficiently large and ε is small enough. More precisely, for any initial condition Ψ∈Dom(H 1/2), the diffusion of energy is bounded from above as 〈H〉 Ψ (t)=O(t σ), where \(\sigma=\alpha/(2\lceil p-1\rceil \gamma-\frac{1}{2})\) . As an application we consider the Hamiltonian H(t)=|p|α+ε v(θ,t) on L 2(S 1,dθ) which was discussed earlier in the literature by Howland.
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Duclos, P., Lev, O. & Šťovíček, P. On the Energy Growth of Some Periodically Driven Quantum Systems with Shrinking Gaps in the Spectrum. J Stat Phys 130, 169–193 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-007-9419-5
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