Stochastic Behavior in Classical and Quantum Hamiltonian Systems: Volta Memorial Conference, Como, 1977

✍ Scribed by G. Contopoulos (auth.), Giulio Casati, Joseph Ford (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 93
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Integrable and stochastic behaviour in dynamical astronomy....Pages 1-17
Adiabatic and stochastic motion of charged particles in the field of a single wave....Pages 18-34
Numerical study of particle motion in two waves....Pages 35-43
Stochastic ion heating by a perpendicularly propagating electrostatic wave....Pages 44-50
Preservation of conditionally periodic movements with small change in the Hamilton function....Pages 51-56
On resonant hamiltonians with two degrees of freedom near an equilibrium point....Pages 57-75
A survey of the Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonian with applications to related examples....Pages 76-136
Ergodic components in the stochastic region in a Hamiltonian system....Pages 137-144
A question about the localized mode due to a light impurity....Pages 145-150
Nonlinear oscillation regimes in some physical problems....Pages 151-162
Metric universality in nonlinear recurrence....Pages 163-166
Magnetic flux annihilation in a large Josephson junction....Pages 167-200
Some non-linear physics in crystallographic structures....Pages 201-212
Laser instabilities — an example from synergetics....Pages 213-231
Dynamics and ergodicity of the infinite harmonic crystal a review of some salient features....Pages 232-240
Geodesic correction to stochastic parallel displacement of tensors....Pages 241-249
The method of Dirichlet forms....Pages 250-258
Regular and irregular spectra of molecules....Pages 259-282
Semiclassical studies of bound states and molecular dynamics....Pages 283-292
The role of periodic orbits in semiclassical quantization....Pages 293-298
Semiclassical eigenvalues for rotating triatomic molecules....Pages 299-305
Semiclassical calculation of vibrational energy levels for nonseparable potentials....Pages 306-315
Classical quantization conditions for a dynamical system with stochastic behavior?....Pages 316-325
Semi-classical ergodicity of quantum eigenstates in the Wigner representation....Pages 326-333
Stochastic behavior of a quantum pendulum under a periodic perturbation....Pages 334-352
Periodic solutions of arbitrary period, variational methods....Pages 353-375

✦ Subjects

Physics, general