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Dynamics of a two-level system coupled with a quantum oscillator: The very strong coupling limit 6 0 0 Titus Sandu∗ 2 g D´epartement de chimie, Universit´e de Montr´eal, C.P. 6128, u A succursale Centre-ville, Montr´eal, Qu´ebec H3C 3J7, Canada 2 (Dated: February 6, 2008) 2 ] Abstract l l a The time-dependent behavior of a two-level system interacting with a quantum oscillator system h - s is analyzed in the case of a coupling larger than both the energy separation between the two levels e m and the energy of quantum oscillator (Ω ω λ, where Ω is the frequency of the transition . t a between the two levels, ω is the frequency of the oscillator, and λ is the coupling between the two- m - level system and the oscillator). Our calculations show that the amplitude of the expectation value d n of the oscillator coordinate decreases as the two-level system undergoes the transition from one o c [ level to the other, while the transfer probability between the levels is staircase-like. This behavior 1 is explained by the interplay between the adiabatic and the non-adiabatic regimes encountered v 3 during the dynamics with the system acting as a quantum counterpart of the Landau-Zener model. 8 4 The transition between the two levels occurs as long as the expectation value of the oscillator 8 0 6 coordinate is driven close to zero. On the contrary, if the initial conditions are set such that the 0 / expectation values of the oscillator coordinate are far from zero, the system will remai