Quantum versus Chaos: Questions Emerging from Mesoscopic Cosmos By Katsuhiro Nakamura
English | PDF(True) | 2002 | 224 Pages | ISBN : 0792345576 | 8.45 MB
Quantum and chaos, key concepts in contemporary science, are incompatible by nature. This volume presents an investigation into quantum transport in mesoscopic or nanoscale systems which are classically chaotic and shows the success and failure of quantal, semiclassical, and random matrix theories in dealing with questions emerging from the mesoscopic cosmos. These traditional theories are critically analysed, and this leads to a new direction. To reconcile quantum with chaos and to restore genuine temporal chaos in quantum systems, a time-discrete variant of quantum dynamics is proposed.