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Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No. 166
Quantum Mechanics and Chaos
Proceedings of the International Conference
Edited by Katsuhiro Nakamura, Takahisa Harayama and Kazuo Takatsuka
This volume contains invited lectures at the international conference on
``Quantum Mechanics and Chaos (QMC 2006)", held September 19-21, 2006,
in Osaka, Japan.
Quantum mechanics, the greatest theory born in the 20th century, has been
serving as an indispensable principle constantly guiding today's science and
technology. It explains and even predicts many fundamental phenomena, such
as superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect, Bose-Einstein condensation,
and so on, and offers great promise in quantum computation and quantum
information. Chaos, another great discovery of the 20th century science, has
posed fundamental questions concerning quantum theory and statistical
mechanics. While researchers in the forefront are revealing the essential
nature of the quantum mechanical manifestation of chaos, the essence of
microscopic chaos has not yet been fully elucidated. Given these
circumstances, and in view of the ubiquitous nature of quantum chaos, it
still constitutes a truly important subject in fundamental physics.
The topics covered include:
(1) quantum chaos,
(2) wave chaos in microcavity lasers and Bose-Einstein condensates,
(3) semiclassical theory,
(4) quantum transport and chaotic scattering in mesoscopic systems,
(5) molecular science,
(6) quantum tunneling,
(7) theory of quantum information and mathematical foundation of
quantum chaos,
and so on.
This volume serves as a survey on the recent theoretical and experimental
development in this field, and will be of value to researchers,
as well as to non-experts and students interested in this subject.
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