Dissipative Quantum Chaos and Decoherence

• Main Author: Braun, Daniel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 172
• Subjects: Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Quantum optics.; Complex Systems.; Quantum Optics.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

Dissipative Quantum Chaos and Decoherence provides an over- view of the state of the art of research in this exciting field. The main emphasis is on the development of a semiclassical formalism that allows one to incorporate the effect of dissipation and decoherence in a precise, yet tractable way i...

Table of Contents:

• Classical Maps
• Unitary Quantum Maps
• Dissipation in Quantum Mechanics
• Decoherence
• Dissipative Quantum Maps
• Semiclassical Analysis of Dissipative Quantum Maps
• Saddle-Point Method for a Complex Function of Several Arguments
• The Determinant of a Tridiagonal, Periodically Continued Matrix
• Partial Classical Maps and Stability Matrices for the Dissipative Kicked Top.