Classical and Quantum Dynamics: From Classical Paths to Path Integrals

Graduate students seeking 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.

Graduate students seeking 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 sixth edition has been enlarged to include the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian, Schwinger''s source theory treatment of the low-energy π-ρ-N physics and general relativity, where Riemann''s (Einstein''s) ideas on space and time and their philosophical implications are discussed.  

• | Author: Martin Reuter, Walter Dittrich
• | Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• | Publication Date: Feb 07, 2021
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9783030367886
• | ISBN-10: 3030367886