Quantum Measurement, Quantum Chaos, and Bose-Einstein Condensates
Simon A Gardiner

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Title page, preface, contents

Part 1 Quantum state synthesis and measurement

Chapter 1 Measurement in quantum mechanics
Chapter 2 Nonclassical states and measurement of general motional observables of a trapped ion
Phys Rev A 55, 1683 (1997)

Appendix A Transforming to a rotating frame

Part 2 Quantum chaos

Chapter 3 Chaos in classical dynamical systems
Chapter 4 The classical delta-kicked harmonic oscillator
Chapter 5 Quantum chaos
Chapter 6 The quantum delta-kicked harmonic oscillator
Chapter 7 Quantum chaos in an ion trap: The delta-kicked harmonic oscillator
Phys Rev Lett 79, 4790 (1997)

Appendix B Adiabatic eliminations
Appendix C Extension: Including decoherence

Part 3 Nonlinear wave chaos and Bose-Einstein condensates

Chapter 8 Bose-Einstein condensation and condensates: a brief overview
Chapter 9 Many body dynamics in the presence of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Chapter 10 Nonlinear wave equations and integrability
Chapter 11 Nonlinear matter wave dynamics with a chaotic potential
Phys Rev A 62, 023612 (2000)

Appendix D Wigner function formulation of Gross-Pitaevskii dynamics
Appendix E Hydrodynamic formulation of Gross-Pitaevskii dynamics
Appendix F Fourier methods
Appendix G Moyal bracket

Author index, acknowledgements, Danksagung

Content © Simon A Gardiner, Durham University 2005