On the Herman-Kluk semiclassical approximation

Reviews in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1123-1145

  Robert, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Coherent states; Ehrenfest time; Semiclassical Fourier Integral Operator; time dependent Schr dinger equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649525352     PISSN: 0129055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129055X1000417X     Document Type: Article

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