Quantum signatures of chaos (Q5918128)

The present version of the classic text [Quantum signatures of chaos. 3rd rev. and enlarged ed. Berlin: Springer (2010; Zbl 1209.81002)] due to the first author, now appears with the co-authorship of S. Gnutzmann and M. Kuś, whose expertize on the monograph subject matter has enabled a number of amendments and extensions of the previous text. Specifically this concerns group theory methods (symmetry issues and these of non-standard symmetries in particular), that of a current status of the level dynamics, and a deepened discussion of supersymmetry methods (background and the analysis of the supersymmetric sigma model) for the study of ensembles of random matrices. Applications of the latter method go beyond the RMT proper and have received attention in chapters on quatum localisation, quantum graphs and universal spectral fluctuations of individual chaotic dynamics. The equivalence of the sigma model and Gutzwiller's semiclassical periodic-orbit theory is demonstrated. Various ideas coming from the nonlinear sigma model theory, and these from kicked top and rotor studies are interwtined in the whole body of the text. The classic elements of the quantum chaos theory, like e.g. an exploration of the meaning of quantization in case of nonlinear dynamical models, setting quantum criterions that discriminate between the regular and irregular motion, description of Wigner-Dyson symmetry classes, are described as well. The random matrix theory is presented both in terms of classic methods and in terms of the supersymmetric sigma model. An overall volume of the monograph grew up from previous 573 pages to 659 pages in the present edition. The chapters order has been changed to make the presentation logically more consistent. In addition to minor revisions of the original text, new subsections and new chapter (Chapter 7 on the ballistic sigma model for individual unitary maps and graphs) have appeared. The former (third edition) chapter on the superanalysis for RMT, in the present edition appears as Chapter 6 on supersymmetry and sigma model for random matrices and has been expaneded by paying more attention to the zero-dimensional sigma model. The exploration of the sigma model takes place in next chapters as well. Lists of references following each chapter, have been selectively updated. Major novelties of the third edition (like e.f. the chapter on quantum mechanics of dissipative systems) are reproduced in the present version. Since the text is both an introduction and the survey of the still expanding (albeit mature) filed of qauntum chaos, the monograph may be used as a reference book, both for professionals and for teaching purposes. Each chapter is followed by a selection of problem which may be regarded as a test, but also are intended to deepen the reader understanding.