This book presents a clear and concise introduction to the field of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, suitable for graduate students in mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, and in natural sciences in general. This second edition includes additional material and in particular a new chapter on di
Nonlinear Dynamics and Quantum Chaos: an introduction
โ Scribed by Wimberger, Sandro
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 215
- Series
- Graduate Texts in Physics
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Introduction.- Fundamental terminology.- Complexity.- Classical versus quantum dynamics.- Problems.- References.- Dynamical systems.- Evolution law.- One-dimensional maps.- Problems.- References.- Nonlinear Hamiltonian systems.- Integrable examples.- Hamiltonian formalism.- Important techniques in the Hamiltonian formalism.- Integrable systems.- Non-integrable systems.- Perturbation of low-dimensional systems.- Canonical perturbation theory.- Transition to chaos in Hamiltonian systems.- Criteria for local and global chaos.- Appendix.- Problems.- References.- Aspects of quantum chaos.- Introductory remarks on quantum mechanics.- Semiclassical quantization of integrable systems.- Semiclassical description of non-integrable systems.- Wave functions in phase space.- Anderson and dynamical localization.- Universal level statistics.- Concluding remarks.- Appendix.- Problems.- References.- Index.
โฆ Subjects
Nichtlineare Dynamik;Quantenchaos
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