Gauging a quantum heat bath with dissipative Landau-Zener transitions
  We calculate the exact Landau-Zener transitions probabilities for a qubit with arbitrary linear coupling to a bath at zero temperature. The final quantum state exhibits a peculiar entanglement between the qubit and the bath. In the special case of a diagonal coupling, the bath does not influence the transition probability, whatever the speed of the Landau-Zener sweep. It is proposed to use Landau-Zener transitions to determine both the reorganization energy and the integrated spectral density of the bath. Possible applications include circuit QED and molecular nanomagnets. 
Martijn Wubs, Keiji Saito, Sigmund Kohler, Peter H\"anggi, and Yosuke   Kayanuma