Manifestations of chaos in atoms, molecules and quantum wells

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1755, 1999, Pages 1359-1379

  Monteiro, T S ^a   Owen, S M ^a   Saraga, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atoms; Chaos; Mesoscopic physics; Quantum chaos; Semiclassical methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348137480     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0378     Document Type: Article

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