Semiclassical physics /
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| Language: | English |
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Reading, Mass. :
Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program,
©1997.
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| Series: | Frontiers in physics ;
v. 96. |
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Table of Contents:
- The quantum propagator
- Old quantum theory
- A ball bouncing off a moving wall
- A pendulum with variable string length
- The phase space of a simple harmonic oscillator
- Three-dimensional anisotropic harmonic oscillator
- Wave packets in Rydberg atoms
- The large-n limit in the Bohr atom
- Where are the periodic orbits in quantum mechanics?
- Chaotic motion: atoms in a magnetic field
- Scaling of classical Hamiltonian and chaos
- Quasi-Landau resonances in atomic photoabsorption
- Chaos and periodic orbits in mesoscopic systems
- Ballistic magnetoresistance in a cavity
- Scars in the wave function
- Tunneling in a quantum diode with a tilted magnetic field
- Electron transport in a superlattice of antidots
- Quantization of integrable systems
- Hamiltonian formalism and the classical limit
- Hamilton-Jacobi theory and wave mechanics
- The WKB method
- WKB in one dimension
- WKB for radial motion
- Torus quantization: from WKB to EBK
- The two-dimensional hydrogen atom
- The three-dimensional hydrogen atom
- The two-dimensional disk billiard
- Connection to classical periodic orbits
- Example: The two-dimensional rectangular billiard
- Transition from integrability to chaos
- Destruction of resonant tori
- The model of Walker and Ford
- The single-particle level density
- Level density and other basic tools
- Separation of g(E) into smooth and oscillating parts
- Some exact trace formulae
- The linear harmonic oscillator
- General spectrum depending on one quantum number
- One-dimensional box.