Classical, Semiclassical and Quantum Dynamics in Atoms

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Friedrich, Harald (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Eckhardt, Bruno (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 485
• Subjects: Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Atoms.; Physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum physics.; Complex Systems.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

In this book, a number of the world's leading researchers in quantum, classical and atomic physics cooperate to present an up-to-date account of the recent progress in the field. The first part highlights the latest advances in semiclassical theory, whilst the second one is devoted to applicati...

Table of Contents:

• The origins of the trace formula
• Quantum fluids and classical determinants
• Semiclassical cross sections
• Resummation and the turning points of zeta functions
• Tunneling and the semiclassical propagator: A new perspective
• Semiclassical floquet spectra without periodic orbits from ?-expansion of floquet matrix
• Spectral statistics of chaotic and disordered systems
• Microwave ionization of hydrogen rydberg atoms: Chaos, symmetry and dynamical localization
• The periodically driven excited hydrogen atom
• Ionization of hydrogen atoms by circularly polarized microwaves
• Classical orbits and quantum waves in natural atoms and in designer atoms
• Semiclassical approaches to atoms in external fields
• Two-electron atoms: From resonances to fragmentation
• Periodic orbit spectra of simple atoms.