CHAOS LIGHT - CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM

Classics Illustrated version based on lecture overheads

some overheads (wildly incomplete) from P. Cvitanović's lectures based on ChaosBook.org:

Chapter 1 - Overture

Chapter 2 - Go with the flow

Chapter 3 - Discrete time dynamics

Chapter 4 - Local stability

Chapter 5 - Cycle stability

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Chapter 6 - Lyapunov exponents

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Chapter 7 - Hamiltonian dynamics

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Chapter 8 - Billiards

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Chapter 9 - World in a mirror

Chapter 10 - Relativity for cyclists

Chapter 11 - Charting the state space

Chapter 12 - Qualitative dynamics, for cyclists

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Chapter 13 - Fixed points, and how to get them

Chapter 14 - Walkabout: Transition graphs

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Chapter 15 - Counting

Chapter 16 - Transporting densities

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Chapter 17 - Averaging

Chapter 18 - Trace formulas

Chapter 19 - Spectral determinants

Chapter 20 - Cycle expansions

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Chapter 21 - Discrete factorization

Chapter 22 - Why cycle?

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Chapter 23 - Why does it work?

Chapter 24 - Intermittency

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Chapter 25 - Deterministic diffusion

Chapter 26 - Turbulence?

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Chapter 27 - Irrationally winding

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Chapter 28 - Noise

Chapter 29 - Relaxation for cyclists

Chapter 30 - Quantum chaos - prologue

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Chapter 31 - Quantum mechanics, briefly

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Chapter 32 - WKB quantization

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Chapter 33 - Semiclassical evolution

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Chapter 34 - Semiclassical quantization

Chapter 35 - Quantum scattering

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Chapter 36 - Chaotic multiscattering

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Chapter 37 - Helium atom

Chapter 38 - Diffraction distraction

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Epilogue

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Appendix A - A brief history of chaos

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Appendix B - Go straight

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Appendix C - Linear stability

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Appendix D - Finding cycles

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Appendix E - Symbolic dynamics techniques

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Appendix F - Counting itineraries

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Appendix G - Implementing evolution

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Appendix H - Transport of vector fields

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Appendix I - Discrete symmetries of dynamics

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Appendix J - Convergence of Fredholm determinants

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Appendix K - Infinite dimensional operators

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Appendix L - Thermodynamic formalism

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Appendix M - Statistical mechanics recycled

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Appendix N - Noise/quantum corrections

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Appendix T - Projects

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