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Stability and instability in quantum mechanics

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Many problems are still open on investigation of models to understand the instability in quantum mechanics. This lecture was not supposed to exhibit a full set of exhaustive results. It should be a starting point to convince the experts and the beginners to investigate these questions, which are possible to control nowaday, even though very delicate.

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  • Hamiltonian System
  • Schrodinger Equation
  • Countable Intersection
  • Invariant Circle
  • Small Divisor

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Bellissard, J. (1985). Stability and instability in quantum mechanics. In: Graffi, S. (eds) Schrödinger Operators. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1159. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0080334

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