%0 Journal Article %J Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 7 (2003) 145-204 %D 2003 %T Space-adiabatic perturbation theory %A Gianluca Panati %A Herbert Spohn %A Stefan Teufel %X We study approximate solutions to the Schr\\\\\\\"odinger equation $i\\\\epsi\\\\partial\\\\psi_t(x)/\\\\partial t = H(x,-i\\\\epsi\\\\nabla_x) \\\\psi_t(x)$ with the Hamiltonian given as the Weyl quantization of the symbol $H(q,p)$ taking values in the space of bounded operators on the Hilbert space $\\\\Hi_{\\\\rm f}$ of fast ``internal\\\'\\\' degrees of freedom. By assumption $H(q,p)$ has an isolated energy band. Using a method of Nenciu and Sordoni \\\\cite{NS} we prove that interband transitions are suppressed to any order in $\\\\epsi$. As a consequence, associated to that energy band there exists a subspace of $L^2(\\\\mathbb{R}^d,\\\\Hi _{\\\\rm f})$ almost invariant under the unitary time evolution. We develop a systematic perturbation scheme for the computation of effective Hamiltonians which govern approximately the intraband time evolution. As examples for the general perturbation scheme we discuss the Dirac and Born-Oppenheimer type Hamiltonians and we reconsider also the time-adiabatic theory. %B Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 7 (2003) 145-204 %I International Press %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3041 %1 1292 %2 Mathematics %3 Mathematical Physics %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2008-10-08T12:17:36Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n0201055v3.pdf: 449361 bytes, checksum: a37ea04fc4a4f59a75d03e4b2ec3df16 (MD5)