9780444892775 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.50 in. | 3.15 lbs | List price $234.00
About: In the last decade the understanding of the relations between classical and quantum mechanics has advanced tremendously and the following broad themes are dealt with in this book:-• random matrices: a resurgence of an old theory brought in from nuclear physics, now the standard for analysing "signatures" of classical chaos in quantum systems;• the complex quantum behaviour of driven Hamiltonian systems and localization phenomena;• chaos in scattering systems and the properties of S-matrices;• spectra of quantum systems whose classical analogues are the geodesic flows on negatively curved compact manifolds;• the wealth of properties of wave functions for classically chaotic systems;• the rise and growth of the concept of chaos in all sectors of "physics of microscopic media": nuclear, atomic, molecular, solid-state physics.