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Partial reversibility and counterdiabatic driving in nearly integrable systems

Rohan Banerjee, Shahyad Khamnei, Anatoli Polkovnikov, and Stewart Morawetz

Phys. Rev. A - Accepted 7 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/4hkp-j534

Abstract

Adiabatic (or reversible) processes are the key concept unifying our understanding of thermodynamics and dynamical systems. Reversibility in the thermodynamic sense is understood as entropy-preserving processes, such as in the idealized Carnot engine, whereas in integrable dynamical systems it is understood as the conservation of the action variables. Between these two idealized limits, however, things are much less clear. In this work, we study several toy models to assess the extent to which reversible processes are even possible in this regime. We then explore how the dissipative losses resulting from rapidly driving these kinds of systems can be fought by approximate counterdiabatic driving. Finally, we provide numerical evidence that much of the phenomenology should be the same for quantum many-body systems with large degeneracy in the presence of integrability breaking perturbations.

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