Download or read book Dissipative Quantum Chaos and Decoherence written by Daniel Braun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview of the state of the art of research in an exciting field mainly emphasizes the development of a semiclassical formalism that allows one to incorporate the effect of dissipation and decoherence in a precise, yet tractable way into the quantum mechanics of classically chaotic systems.