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Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics - NJSF117
Title: Chaos v klasické a kvantové mechanice
Guaranteed by: Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics (32-UCJF)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. Ing. Zdeněk Pluhař, CSc.
prof. RNDr. Pavel Cejnar, Dr., DSc.
Classification: Physics > Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics
Annotation -
Last update: T_UCJF (19.01.2007)
Introductory lectures on basic properties of regular and chaotic motion in classical hamiltonian autonomous systems, on the semiclassical quantization of classical chaotic systems and on the spectral properties of random matrix ensembles. Good knowledge of the basis of classical and quantum mechanics is required.
Literature - Czech
Last update: T_UCJF (19.01.2007)

Gutzwiller: Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Springer, New York 1990

Reichl: The Transition to Chaos in Conservative Classical Systems: Quantum Manife- stations, Springer, New York 1992 Tabor: Chaos and Integrability in Nonlinear Dynamics, Wiley, New York 1989

Syllabus -
Last update: T_UCJF (19.01.2007)

Classical Hamiltonian systems. Conditions of integrability. Regularity of motion of integrable systems. Actions and angles, periodical and quasiperiodical trajectories, rational and irrational tori. Poincare surface of section. Examples: Kepler problem, Toda lattice.

Perturbations of integrable systems. Convergency of perturbation series. Problem of small denominators. Sufficiently irrational tori. The Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem. Fate of rational tori. The Birkhoff fixed-point theorem. Stable and instable trajectories. Lyapounov exponents. Examples: Henon-Heiles system, Seligman-Verbaarschot-Zirnbauer system.

Correspondence between classical and quantum mechanics. Propagators as integrals over paths. Semiclassical quantization of classically chaotic systems. Level density as the Gutzwiller sum over the classical peridic orbits. Examples: anisotropic Kepler problem, hydrogen atom in homogeneous magnetic field.

Fluctuations of energy levels of quantum systems. Basic fluctuation measures: distribution of nearest-neighbor spacings, rigidity, number variance. Random matrix ensembles. Level fluctuations in GUE and GOE (Gaussian unitary ensemble, Gaussian orthogonal ensemble). The Bohigas-Giannoni-Schmit conjecture and its validity.

Literature:

M. Gutzwiller, Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Springer 1990 F. Haake, Quantum Signatures of Chaos, 2nd ed., Springer 2001 L. Reichl, The Transition to Chaos in Conservative Classical Systems, Springer 1992 M. Tabor, Chaos and Integrability in Nonlinear Dynamics, Wiley 1989

 
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