A Trajectory Description of Quantum Processes. I. Fundamentals A Bohmian Perspective /

• Main Authors: Sanz, Ángel S. (Author), Miret-Artés, Salvador (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 850
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Quantum Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

Trajectory-based formalisms are an intuitively appealing way of describing quantum processes because they allow the use of "classical" concepts. Beginning at an introductory level suitable for students, this two-volume monograph presents (1) the fundamentals and (2) the applications of the...

Table of Contents:

• From Trajectories to Ensembles in Classical Mechanics
• Dynamics of Open Classical Systems
• Elements of Quantum Mechanics
• Optics and Quantum Mechanics
• Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems
• Quantum Mechanics with Trajectories
• Trajectories in Optics
• Calculus of Variations
• Stochastic processes.