Semiclassical Physics

Brack, Matthias | Bhaduri, Rajat

Editor’s Foreword -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- Quantization of integrable systems -- The single-particle level density -- The extended Thomas-Fermi model -- Gutzwiller’s trace formula for isolated orbits -- Extensions of the Gutzwiller theory -- Quantization of nonintegrable systems -- Shells and periodic orbits in finite fermion systems -- Concluding remarks -- The self-consistent mean field approach -- Inverse Laplace transforms -- More about the monodromy matrix -- Calculation of Maslov indices for isolated orbits