Ankerhold Quantum Tunneling in Complex Systems

The Semiclassical Approach
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-68076-5
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 224, 220 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Ergebnisse der exakten Naturwissenschaften

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ankerhold, Joachim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Semiclassical Approximation.- Tunneling in the Energy Domain.- Wave-packet Tunneling in Real-time.- Tunneling in Open Systems: Thermodynamical Approaches.- Tunneling in Open Systems: Dynamics.- Unified Dynamical Theory -.- Final Remarks and Outlook.