New approach to the semiclassical limit of quantum mechanics. I: Multiple tunnelings in one dimension

DOI10.1007/BF01213012zbMath0483.60094MaRDI QIDQ1163301

Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, Elisabetta Scoppola, Fabio Martinelli

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

semiclassical limitsmall random perturbationsstochastic mechanicsdegeneracy of eigenvalues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Diffusion processes (60J60) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20)

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