A Trajectory Description of Quantum Processes. I. Fundamentals

Download or read book A Trajectory Description of Quantum Processes. I. Fundamentals written by Ángel S. Sanz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trajectory-based formalisms are an intuitively appealing way of describing quantum processes because they allow the use of "classical" concepts. Beginning at an introductory level suitable for students, this two-volume monograph presents (1) the fundamentals and (2) the applications of the trajectory description of basic quantum processes. This first volume is focussed on the classical and quantum background necessary to understand the fundamentals of Bohmian mechanics, which can be considered the main topic of this work. Extensions of the formalism to the fields of open quantum systems and to optics are also proposed and discussed.