The Semiclassical Way to Dynamics and Spectroscopy

Synopsis

Part I. Classical Mechanics With An Eye To Quantum Mechanics -- The Lagrangian And The Action -- Canonical Transformations -- Time Evolution In Phase Space -- Classical Resonance Theory -- Part Ii. Quantum And Semiclassical Mechanics -- Aspects Of Time-dependent Quantum Mechanics -- Stationary Phase Integration -- Feynman Path Integral To Van Vleck Propagator -- Stressing The Vvmg Propagator -- Phase Space Representations Of Wavefunctions And Densities -- Gausian Wavepackets And Linear Dynamics -- Guassian Wavepacket Methods For Nonlinear Time Evolution -- Wkb Methods -- Tunneling -- Bixon-jortner And Fano-anderson Models -- Power Of Degeneracy -- Part Iii. Applications To Spectroscopy -- Born-oppenheimer Approximation And Its Implications -- Time Dependent Formulations Of Spectroscopy -- Semiclassical Spectroscopy -- Semiclassical Dynamics And One-photon Spectroscopy -- Semiclassical Dynamics And Two-photon Spectroscopy -- Part Iv. Chaos And Quantum Dynamics -- Aspects Of Quantum Chaology -- Quantum Scars Of Classical Periodic Orbits -- Random Waves And Nodal Structues Of Eigenstates -- Branched Flow -- Decoherence -- Multiple Scattering Theory. Eric J. Heller. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.