Optimal shortcut approach based on an easily obtained intermediate Hamiltonian

Abstract

We present a general approach to speed up the adiabatic process without adding the traditional counterdiabatic driving (CD) Hamiltonian. The strategy is to design an easy-to-get intermediate Hamiltonian to connect the original Hamiltonian and final transitionless Hamiltonian. With final transitionless Hamiltonian, the same target can be achieved as in the adiabatic process governed by the original Hamiltonian, but in a shorter time. We apply the present approach to a three-level system, and the result shows that the final transitionless Hamiltonian usually has the same structure as the original Hamiltonian but with different time-dependent coefficients, allowing speedup to be achieved in a much easier way compared to previous methods.