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Quantum Chaos

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Part of the book series: DMV Seminar ((OWS,volume 27))

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Quantum chaos is defined to be the quantum mechanics for a classically chaoticor, to be definite, ergodic — motion.

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Knauf, A., Sinai, Y.G., Baladi, V. (1997). Quantum Chaos. In: Classical Nonintegrability, Quantum Chaos. DMV Seminar, vol 27. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8932-2_4

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