Quantum Signatures of Chaos

• Main Author: Haake, Fritz (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Synergetics, 54
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Quantum Physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

This by now classic text provides an excellent introduction and survey to the continuously expanding field of quantum chaos . The topics treated include a detailed exploration of the quantum aspects of nonlinear dynamics, quantum criteria to distinguish regular and irregular motion, antiunitary symm...

Table of Contents:

• Time Reversal and Unitary Symmetries
• Level Repulsion
• Random-Matrix Theory
• Level Clustering
• Level Dynamics
• Quantum Localization
• Dissipative Systems
• Classical Hamiltonian Chaos
• Semiclassical Roles for Classical Orbits
• Superanalysis for Random-Matrix Theory.