Quantum Chaos and Quantum Dots (Mesoscopic Physics and Nanotechnology (3))

Microscopic billiards is the medium through which Nakamura (applied physics, Osaka City U.) and Harayama, a senior researcher with a communications company in Kyoto, introduce quantum chaos and quantum transport to students and scholars with little or no previous knowledge about classical chaos theory, which they generally downplay in favor of the semiclassical approach. The discussion is limited to ballistic microstructures like quantum dots and anti-dots, and neglects several essential themes of quantum chaos, but the analytic methods and the approximations they explain should be applicable to generic systems other than billiards. They have substantially rewritten and expanded their Japanese Quantum Chaos--On the State of Quantum Billiards published by Baifukan Publishing, Tokyo, in 2000. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR