内容简介
Thisbookintroducesthequantummechanicsofclassicallychaoticsystems,orQuantumChaosforshort.Thebasicconceptsofquantumchaoscanbegraspedeasilybyanystudentofphysics,buttheunderlyingphysicalprin-ciplestendtobeobscuredbythemathematicalapparatususedtodescribeit.Theauthor'sphilosophy,therefore,hasbeentokeepthediscussionsimpleandtoillustratetheory,whereverpossible,withexperimentalornumericalexamples.Themicrowavebilliardexperiments,initiatedbytheauthorandhisgroup,playamajorroleinthisrespect.Abasicknowledgeofquantummechanicsisassumed.