Quantum Tunneling in Complex Systems: The Semiclassical Approach: 224 (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 224) - Hardcover

Ankerhold, Joachim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540680748 ISBN 13: 9783540680741

Publisher: Springer, 2007

Synopsis

In the last two decades remarkable progress has been made in understanding and describing tunneling processes in complex systems in terms of classical trajectories. This book introduces recent concepts and achievements with particular emphasis on a dynamical formulation and relations to specific systems in mesoscopic, molecular, atomic and nuclear physics. Advanced imaginary time techniques, e.g. for decay rates and tunnel splittings, are discussed in the first part. The second part covers current developments for wave-packet tunneling in real-time, and the third part describes thermodynamical and nonequilibrium approaches for barrier transmission in dissipative systems.

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In the last two decades remarkable progress has been made in understanding and describing tunneling processes in complex systems in terms of classical trajectories. This book introduces recent concepts and achievements with particular emphasis on a dynamical formulation and relations to specific systems in mesoscopic, molecular, and atomic physics. Advanced instanton techniques, e.g. for decay rates and tunnel splittings, are discussed in the first part. The second part covers current developments for wave-packet tunneling in real-time, and the third part describes thermodynamics and dynamical approaches for barrier transmission in statistical, particularly dissipative systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540680748
• ISBN 13: 9783540680741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 222