Adiabatic vanishing conjecture for the transient current

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Let HH be the coupled Hamiltonian, let Pd(H)P^{d}(H) be the projection onto the subspace generated by the discrete eigenfunctions of HH, and let ϱα(t){\varrho}_{\alpha}(t) denote the time-dependent state for coupling parameter α>0\alpha>0. Let χ\chi be any smoothed out characteristic function of one of the reservoirs. Adiabatic vanishing conjecture.

limα0lim suptTr{ϱα(t)Pd(H)[H,χ]}=0.\lim_{\alpha\searrow 0}\limsup_{t\to \infty}\left \vert {\rm Tr} \{{\varrho}_{\alpha} (t)P^{d}(H)[H,\chi]\}\right \vert =0.

This conjecture asserts that the transient-current contribution associated with the discrete spectrum vanishes in the adiabatic limit. It is motivated by the expectation that adiabatic switching removes the oscillations caused by interference between different eigenfunctions; the source presents the claim as an open problem.

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Horia D. Cornean, Hagen Neidhardt and Valentin A. Zagrebnov, “The effect of time-dependent coupling on non-equilibrium steady states”, arXiv:0708.3931 (2007).

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