Time-independent counterdiabatic driving for emergent two-level subspaces in many-body systems

Abstract

We show that geodesic motion in the Riemannian manifold of quantum states provides a direct route to time-independent counterdiabatic driving. Using the relation between the counterdiabatic Hamiltonian and the quantum metric tensor, we prove that a constant-speed geodesic makes the Hilbert-Schmidt norm of the counterdiabatic Hamiltonian constant. For effective two-level systems whose counterdiabatic correction has a fixed operator direction, this further implies that the full counterdiabatic Hamiltonian itself is time independent. We illustrate this result with the Landau-Zener model, three-level Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage and a collectively driven Rydberg ensemble in the blockade regime. Limitations of this approach in realistic many-body systems are discussed, where the two-level reduction is only emergent and leakage out of the effective subspace bounds the achievable speedup. In all cases, time-independent counterdiabatic driving achieves unit-fidelity state preparation on timescales substantially shorter than conventional adiabatic protocols while replacing temporally shaped auxiliary controls by fixed-amplitude fields.