Classical Systems# Non Linear Systems, Chaotic Motion, Normal Forms, Maps, Integrable and Quasi-integrable Systems, Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory, Formation of Chaos (poincare-birkhoff), Characterization of Chaos, Transport in Phase Space. Quantum Systems# Quantization of Chaotic Systems, Spectral Statistics, Periodic Orbits And The Density of States, Relation to Random Matrix Theory, Time Dependent Systems and Dynamical Localization. Experimental Manifestation In# Microwave Cavities, Hydrogen Atom in Magnetic Field, Atomic Billiards, Kicked Atoms.

Faculty: Physics
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Pre-required courses

(114036 - Statistical and Thermal Physics and 114101 - Analytical Mechanics and 115203 - Quantum Physics 1)


Parallel course

115204 - Quantum Physics 2


Course with no extra credit

118098 118134