
Applied Bohmian Mechanics
From Nanoscale Systems to Cosmology
- 674 pages
- English
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Applied Bohmian Mechanics
From Nanoscale Systems to Cosmology
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- 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: A Brief Overview
- 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
- Index