Time-Dependent Frequency Harmonic Oscillator

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Homework Statement


Consider an harmonic oscillator with time-dependent frequency as:
\omega (t)=\omega_0 * \exp^{- \lambda t}
Find the time dependence of the ground state energy of this oscillator for \lambda << 1 situation.

Homework Equations


H=H_{0} + V(t)
H_{0} = \frac{p^2}{2m} + \frac{1}{2} m \omega_{0}^{2} x^{2}
and if we use the power series expansion for \lambda << 1 we get
V(t) = - \frac{1}{2} m \omega_{0}^2 \lambda t x^{2}

The Attempt at a Solution


I know that I should use the time-dependent perturbation theory, but I am not good at it. So I need some help to solve this problem.
 
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What are the relevant equations for time dependent perturbation theory?
 
sorry I added them to my original post
 
next, how do we express the energy eigenvalues in time-dependent perturbation theory? ;)
 
To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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