Integrability and chaos in classical and quantum mechanics (Q1177074)
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Integrability and chaos in classical and quantum mechanics (English)
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25 June 1992
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This paper deals with what the authors call Large Poincaré Systems (LPS). At the level of classical mechanics, LPS are characterized by Hamiltonians admitting a representation, in canonical coordinates \((J,\alpha)\), of the form \[ H(J,\alpha)=H_ 0(J)+\lambda V(J,\alpha), \] where \(V\) may be represented as a Fourier integral (not as a Fourier series!) with respect to \(\alpha=(\alpha_ 1,\dots,\alpha_ n)\). Thus, contrary to the familiar KAM theory, the \(\alpha_ i\) must not be viewed as angle coordinates. A characteristic feature of LPS is the occurrence of a continuum of resonances. The authors consider such systems classically as well as quantum mechanically and, in particular, in the context of quantum statistics. They propose a new integration method, in terms of series expansions in \(\lambda\), for the dynamics of density operators that uses an ``internal time'' and a non-unitary transformation induced thereby. One of the goals is to explain the second law of thermodynamics. The paper is written in a qualitative fashion; technical details are announced to appear in forthcoming articles.
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Large Poincaré Systems
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