Shin Takagi

Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A coherent and self-contained account of macroscopic quantum phenomena for graduate students and researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521800020
• ISBN-10: 0521800021
• Artikelnr.: 25498305

Autorenporträt

Shin Takagi is Professor of Physical Sciences at Fuji Tokoha University and is probably best known for the Leggett-Takagi equation explaining the spin dynamics of superfluid helium 3.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Overview of macroscopic quantum tunneling
3. Some candidate systems for macroscopic quantum tunneling
4. Environmental problems
5. Harmonic environment
6. Quantum resonant oscillation in the harmonic environment
7. Quantum decay in the harmonic environment
8. General versus harmonic environments
9. The cat in the moonlight
Appendix A. Euclidean space and Hilbert space
Appendix B. Virtual ground state of a system of a single degree of freedom and its decay
Appendix C. Functional derivative
Appendix D. Miscellanea about spin
References.