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The basic adiabatic theorems of classical and quantum mechanics are over-viewed and an adiabatic theorem in quantum mechanics without a gap condition is described.
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Avron, J.E., Elgart, A. (1999). An Adiabatic Theorem without a Gap Condition. In: Dittrich, J., Exner, P., Tater, M. (eds) Mathematical Results in Quantum Mechanics. Operator Theory Advances and Applications, vol 108. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8745-8_1
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