Angular momentum coupling, Dirac oscillators, and quantum band rearrangements in the presence of momentum reversal symmetries

Abstract

We investigate the elementary rearrangements of energy bands in slow-fast one-parameter families of systems whose fast subsystem possesses a half-integer spin. Beginning with a simple case without any time-reversal symmetries, we analyze and compare increasingly sophisticated model Hamiltonians with these symmetries. The models are inspired by the time-reversal modification of the Berry phase setup which uses a family of quadratic spin-quadrupole Hamiltonians of Mead [Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 161–164 (1987)] and Avron et al [Commun. Math. Phys. 124(4), 595–627 (1989)]. An explicit correspondence between the typical quantum energy level patterns in the energy band rearrangements of the finite particle systems with compact slow phase space and those of the Dirac oscillator is found in the limit of linearization near the conical degeneracy point of the semi-quantum eigenvalues.