The Van Vleck formula, Maslov theory, and phase space geometry

DOI10.1007/BF01048836zbMATH Open0925.58094MaRDI QIDQ1379396FDOQ1379396

Authors: Robert G. Littlejohn 

Publication date: 25 February 1998

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum chaossemiclassical mechanicsWKB theoryMaslov theoryGutzwiller trace formulavan Vleck formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Applications of dynamical systems (37N99) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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• Path integration over closed loops and Gutzwiller's trace formula
• Quantum zeta function for perturbed cat maps
• WKB propagators in position and momentum space for a linear potential with a `ceiling' boundary
• Semiclassical theory and the Koopman-van Hove equation ^*
• The Van Vleck formula on Ehrenfest time scales and stationary phase asymptotics for frequency-dependent phases
• Bateman's dual system revisited: quantization, geometric phase and relation with the ground-state energy of the linear harmonic oscillator
• Semiclassical theory of long time propagation in quantum chaos. First part
• Semiclassical theory of long time propagation in quantum chaos. Second part
• Why is the transference theory of causation insufficient? The challenge of the Aharonov-Bohm effect
• A scaling theory of bifurcations in the symmetric weak-noise escape problem.
• Slepian eigenvalues as tunnelling rates
• Diffraction of Wigner functions
• Uniformization of WKB functions by Wigner transform
• Semiclassical theory of weak values
• Asymptotic approximations for the phase space Schrödinger equation
• Asymptotic solutions of the one-dimensional linearized Korteweg-de Vries equation with localized initial data
• Symplectic structure for Gaussian diffusions
• Theories between theories: asymptotic limiting intertheoretic relations.
• Four-dimensional quantum gravity with a cosmological constant from three-dimensional holomorphic blocks

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