It is shown that the required high quality of the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry
can be a natural outcome of the multiple QCD axion models. In the axiverse, a
hypothetical mass mixing between the QCD axions and axion-like particles (ALPs)
can occur, which leads to an interesting phenomenon called the level crossing.
In this paper, we investigate this mass mixing between one QCD axion and one
ALP with the explicit PQ symmetry breaking in the early Universe. The dynamics
of the axions and their cosmological evolutions when the level crossing occurs
in this scenario are studied in detail. Then we focus our attention on the
axion dark matter (DM) abundance. With several typical parameter sets for level
crossing, we find that in the presence of the explicit PQ symmetry breaking
term in the mixing, the total axion DM abundance is dominated by ALP and
significantly suppressed.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure