Ebook: A Trajectory Description of Quantum Processes. II. Applications: A Bohmian Perspective
- Genre: Physics // Quantum Physics
- Tags: Physics general, Theoretical Mathematical and Computational Physics
- Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 831
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Trajectory-based formalisms are an intuitively appealing way of describing quantum processes because they allow the use of "classical" concepts. Beginning as an introductory level suitable for students, this two-volume monograph presents (1) the fundamentals and (2) the applications of the trajectory description of basic quantum processes. This second volume is focussed on simple and basic applications of quantum processes such as interference and diffraction of wave packets, tunneling, diffusion and bound-state and scattering problems. The corresponding analysis is carried out within the Bohmian framework. By stressing its interpretational aspects, the book leads the reader to an alternative and complementary way to better understand the underlying quantum dynamics.
Trajectory-based formalisms are an intuitively appealing way of describing quantum processes because they allow the use of "classical" concepts. Beginning as an introductory level suitable for students, this two-volume monograph presents (1) the fundamentals and (2) the applications of the trajectory description of basic quantum processes. This second volume is focussed on simple and basic applications of quantum processes such as interference and diffraction of wave packets, tunneling, diffusion and bound-state and scattering problems. The corresponding analysis is carried out within the Bohmian framework. By stressing its interpretational aspects, the book leads the reader to an alternative and complementary way to better understand the underlying quantum dynamics.
Trajectory-based formalisms are an intuitively appealing way of describing quantum processes because they allow the use of "classical" concepts. Beginning as an introductory level suitable for students, this two-volume monograph presents (1) the fundamentals and (2) the applications of the trajectory description of basic quantum processes. This second volume is focussed on simple and basic applications of quantum processes such as interference and diffraction of wave packets, tunneling, diffusion and bound-state and scattering problems. The corresponding analysis is carried out within the Bohmian framework. By stressing its interpretational aspects, the book leads the reader to an alternative and complementary way to better understand the underlying quantum dynamics.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Wave-Packet Dynamics: The Free-Particle Physics....Pages 1-48
Quantum Interference and Superposition....Pages 49-95
Interference and Interferometry....Pages 97-133
Bound System Dynamics....Pages 135-172
Tunneling Dynamics....Pages 173-211
Atom Scattering from Periodic Surfaces....Pages 213-248
Scattering from Surface Defects and Activated Diffusion....Pages 249-269
Many-Body Systems and Quantum Hydrodynamics....Pages 271-303
Back Matter....Pages 305-333