NONLINEAR DYNAMICS: QUANTUM CHAOS ----------------------------------------------------------- Georgia Tech PHYS 7224 Spring semester 2002 Predrag Cvitanovic' Lecture 10 Tue, Feb 12 2002 12:05-13:25 in Howey S106 Semiclassical density of state, 1-d quantization again ------------------------------------------------- Reading: -------- Classical and Quantum Chaos --- www.nbi.dk/ChaosBook/postscript.html print (if anything) pp. 499-500, 502-504 chapter 22 - Semiclassical quantization We will verify that the Gutzwiller trace, Gutzwiller-Voros determinant reduces to the WKB quantization in 1 dimension. Also get some intutition about the density of states - verify that we are counting the phase-space volume in units of Planck's quanta. -------------------------------------------------------------- Re. problem set from last Tuesday's email: The two problems Problem 21.3) 1-dimensional harmonic oscillator in WKB form chapter 21 - Semiclassical evolution exercises Problem 21.6) Free particle Hamilton's principal function chapter 21 - Semiclassical evolution exercises cases a) and c), case b) optional are formulated in somewhat obscure manner, so if they do not make sense to you, skip them. due Tue Feb 12 2002, in the class, or Predrag's mailbox or hand it to Y. Lan.