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Quantum Tunneling in Condensed Media

By Yu. Kagan , A.J. Leggett

Book information

Publisher
North Holland
Year
1992
ISBN
9780444880413, 0-444-88041-0
LCC
QC173.4.C65 Q36 1992
Open Library ID
OL1716520M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4163759 bytes)
Pages
515\515
Library
Techlib
Time added
2009-11-09 02:42:13

Description

The essays in this book deal with of the problem of quantum tunnelling and related behavior of a microscopic or macroscopic system, which interacts strongly with an "environment" - this being some form of condensed matter. The "system" in question need not be physically distinct from its environment, but could, for example, be one particular degree of freedom on which attention is focussed, as in the case of the Josephson junction studied in several of the papers. This general problem has been studied in many hundreds, if not thousands, of articles in the literature, in contexts as diverse as biophysics and quantum cosmology. The editors have grouped together papers which are representative of the main trends in this area in the last fifteen years or so and sufficiently related in general spirit and terminology that common themes can be discerned. The contributions are primarily theoretical, but the comparison with experiment is discussed wherever possible.

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