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Classical and Quantum Dynamics

From Classical Paths to Path Integrals

Martin Reuter author Walter Dittrich author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:28th Jul '18

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Graduate students who wish to become familiar with advanced computational strategies in classical and quantum dynamics will find in this book both the fundamentals of a standard course and a detailed treatment of the time-dependent oscillator, Chern-Simons mechanics, the Maslov anomaly and the Berry phase, to name just a few topics. Well-chosen and detailed examples illustrate perturbation theory, canonical transformations and the action principle, and demonstrate the usage of path integrals.
The fifth edition has been revised and enlarged to include chapters on quantum electrodynamics, in particular, Schwinger’s proper time method and the treatment of classical and quantum mechanics with Lie brackets and pseudocanonical transformations. It is shown that operator quantum electrodynamics can be equivalently described with c-numbers, as demonstrated by calculating the propagation function for an electron in a prescribed classical electromagnetic field.

ISBN: 9783319863696

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 771g

489 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 5th ed. 2017