Author	Teufel, Stefan. author
Title	Adiabatic Perturbation Theory in Quantum Dynamics [electronic resource] / by Stefan Teufel
Imprint	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b13355
Descript	VI, 242 p. online resource

Separation of scales plays a fundamental role in the understanding of the dynamical behaviour of complex systems in physics and other natural sciences. A prominent example is the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in molecular dynamics. This book focuses on a recent approach to adiabatic perturbation theory, which emphasizes the role of effective equations of motion and the separation of the adiabatic limit from the semiclassical limit. A detailed introduction gives an overview of the subject and makes the later chapters accessible also to readers less familiar with the material. Although the general mathematical theory based on pseudodifferential calculus is presented in detail, there is an emphasis on concrete and relevant examples from physics. Applications range from molecular dynamics to the dynamics of electrons in a crystal and from the quantum mechanics of partially confined systems to Dirac particles and nonrelativistic QED

Introduction -- First-order adiabatic theory -- Space-adiabatic perturbation theory -- Applications and extensions -- Quantum dynamics in periodic media -- Adiabatic decoupling without spectral gap -- Pseudodifferential operators -- Operator-valued Weyl calculus for tau-equivariant symbols -- Related approaches -- List of symbols -- References -- Index

1. Physics
2. Operator theory
3. Partial differential equations
4. Physics
5. Theoretical
6. Mathematical and Computational Physics
7. Operator Theory
8. Partial Differential Equations