Applied Bohmian Mechanics (2nd Ed.) From Nanoscale Systems to Cosmology
Coordonnateurs : Pladevall Xavier Oriols, Mompart Jordi
Most textbooks explain quantum mechanics as a story where each step follows naturally from the one preceding it. However, the development of quantum mechanics was exactly the opposite. It was a zigzag route, full of personal disputes where scientists were forced to abandon well-established classical concepts and to explore new and imaginative pathways. Some of the explored routes were successful in providing new mathematical formalisms capable of predicting experiments at the atomic scale. However, even such successful routes were painful enough, so that relevant scientists like Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger decided not to support them.
In this book, the authors demonstrate the huge practical utility of another of these routes in explaining quantum phenomena in many different research fields. Bohmian mechanics, the formulation of the quantum theory pioneered by Louis de Broglie and David Bohm, offers an alternative mathematical formulation of quantum phenomena in terms of quantum trajectories. Novel computational tools to explore physical scenarios that are currently computationally inaccessible, such as many-particle solutions of the Schrödinger equation, can be developed from it.
1. Overview of Bohmian Mechanics 2. Hydrogen Photoionization with Strong Lasers 3. Atomtronics. Coherent Control Of Atomic Flow via Adiabatic Passage 4. Bohmian Pathways into Chemistry 5. Adaptive Quantum Monte Carlo Approach States for High-Dimensional Systems 6. Nanoelectronics. Quantum Electron Transport 7. Beyond the Eikonal Approximation in Classical Optics and Quantum Physics 8. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory 9. Quantum Accelerating Universe 10. Bohmian Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
Xavier Oriols is an associate professor at the UAB. His research interests range from quantum foundations to practical engineering of electron devices. He is the author or coauthor of more than 140 papers and has developed the quantum electron transport simulator, named BITLLES, based on Bohmian mechanics.
Jordi Mompart, after a postdoctoral stay at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, he became an associate professor at the UAB.
Date de parution : 05-2019
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes d’Applied Bohmian Mechanics :
Mots-clés :
Quasi-classical Trajectory; Bohmian Mechanics; Overview of Bohmian Mechanics; Bohmian Trajectories; Hydrogen Photoionization with Strong Lasers; Wave Function; The Role of Trajectories in Quantum Chemistry and Chemical Physics; High Order Harmonic Generation; Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory; Carrier Envelope Phase; Sub-Quantum Accelerating Universe; Quantum Potential; cosmology; Quantum Trajectories; nanoscale electron devices; Eikonal Approximation; Orbital Angular Momenta; Time Dependent Coupling; Energy Density; Klein Gordon Equation; Bohmian Interpretation; Quantum Electron Transport; De Sitter Space; Device Active Region; Potential Energy Surface; Left Circular Polarization; Orthodox Quantum Theory; Time Dependent DFT; Circular Polarization; Geometrical Optics Approximation; Gaussian Clusters; Space Time Positions
