The rapid progress of the research field of quantum chaos and its applications called for a book that keeps students abreast of the new developments and at the same time provides a solid basis in subjects which form the canon of the field. This book discusses the following topics: Spectral statistics and their semiclassical interpretation in terms of the Gutzwiller trace formula, Quantum chaos and its applications in mesoscopic physics, Spectral statistics and conductance fluctuations and Quantum chaos in systems with many degrees of freedom. The book connects and continues past and present achievements and prepares the ground for a future full of intriguing and important developments.

Quantum and chaos, key concepts in contemporary science, are incompatible by nature. This volume presents an investigation into quantum transport in mesoscopic or nanoscale systems which are classically chaotic and shows the success and failure of quantal, semiclassical, and random matrix theories in dealing with questions emerging from the mesoscopic cosmos. These traditional theories are critically analysed, and this leads to a new direction. To reconcile quantum with chaos and to restore genuine temporal chaos in quantum systems, a time-discrete variant of quantum dynamics is proposed. Audience:This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in physics, chemistry and mathematics, whose work involves fundamental questions of quantum mechanics in chaotic systems.

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on `Quantum Chaos -- Theory and Experiment', held at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, from 28 May to 1 June 1991. The work brings together leading quantum chaos theorists and experimentalists and greatly improves our understanding of the physics of quantum systems whose classical limit is chaotic. Quantum chaos is a subject of considerable current interest in a variety of fields, in particular nuclear physics, chemistry, statistical mechanics, atomic physics, condensed matter physics and nonlinear dynamics. The volume contains lectures about the currently most active fronts of quantum chaos, such as scars, semiclassical methods, quantum diffusion, random matrix spectra, quantum chaos in atomic and nuclear physics, and possible implications of quantum chaos for the problem of quantum measurement. Part of the book -- The Physics of Quantum Measurements -- is dedicated to the memory of John Bell.

Spectral twinkling: A new example of singularity-dominated strong fluctuations (summary) / M. Berry -- Quantum chaos in GaAs/AlxGa1-x As microstructures / A. M. Chang -- Ground state spin and Coulomb blockade peak motion in chaotic quantum dots / J. A. Folk ... [et al.] -- Quantum chaos and transport phenomena in quantum dots / A. S. Sachrajda -- Conductance of a ballistic electron billiard in a magnetic field: Does the semiclassical approach apply? / T. Blomquist and I. Zozoulenko -- Semiconductor billiards - a controlled environment to study fractals / R. P. Taylor ... [et al.] -- Experimental signatures of wavefunction scarring in open semiconductor billiards / J. P. Bird, R. Akis, and D. K. Ferry -- Chaos in quantum ratchets / H. Linke ... [et al.] -- Statistics of resonances in open billiards / H. Ishio -- The exterior and interior edge states of magnetic billiards: Spectral statistics and correlations / K. Hornberger and U. Smilansky -- Non-universality of chaotic classical dynamics: implications for quantum chaos / M. Wilkinson -- Chaos and interactions in quantum dots / Y. Alhassid -- Stochastic aspects of many-body systems: The embedded Gaussian ensembles / H. A. Weidenmuller -- Quantum-classical correspondence for isolated systems of interacting particles: Localization and ergodicity energy space / F. M. Izrailev -- Effect of symmetry breaking on statistical distributions / G. E. Mitchell and J. F. Shriner, Jr. -- Quantum chaos and quantum computers / D. L. Shepelyansky -- Disorder and quantum chronodynamics - non-linear [symbol] models / T. Guhr and T. Wilke -- Correlations between periodic orbits and their role in spectral statistics / M. Sieber and K. Richeter -- Quantum spectra and wave functions in terms of periodic orbits for weakly chaotic systems / R. E. Prange, R. Narevich and O. Zaitsev -- Bifurcation of periodic orbit as semiclassical origin of superdeformed shell structure / K. Matsuyanagi -- Wavefunction localization and its semiclassical description in a 3-dimensional system with mixed classical dynamics / M. Brack, M. Sieber and S. M. Reimann -- Neutron stars and quantum billiards / A. Bulgac and P. Magierski -- Scars and other weak localization effects in classically chaotic systems / E. J. Heller -- Tunneling and chaos / S. Tomsovic -- Relaxation and fluctuations in quantum chaos / G. Casati -- Rydberg electrons in crossed fields: A paradigm for nonlinear dynamics beyond two degrees of freedom / T. Uzer -- Classical analysis of correlated multiple ionization in strong fields / B. Eckhardt and K. Sacha -- Classically forbidden processes in photoabsorption spectra / J. B. Delos ... [et al.] -- Quantum Hall effect breakdown steps due to an instability of laminar flow against electron-hole pair formation / L. Eaves -- Dynamical and wave chaos in the Bose-Einstein condensate / W. P. Reinhardt and S. B. McKinney -- Wave dynamical chaos: An experimental approach in billiards / A. Richter -- Acoustic chaos / C. Ellegaard, K. Schaadt and P. Bertelsen -- Ultrasound resonances in a rectangular plate described by random matrices / K. Schaadt, G. Simon and C. Ellegaard -- Quantum correlations and classical resonances in an open chaotic system / W. T. Lu ... [et al.] -- Why do an experiment, if theory is exact, and any experiment can at best approximate theory? / H.-J. Stockmann -- Wave-Chaotic optical resonators and lasers / A. D. Stone -- Angular momentum localization in oval billiards / J. U. Nockel -- Chaos and time-reversed acoustics / M. Fink -- Single-mode delay time statistics for scattering by a chaotic cavity / K. J. H. van Bemmel, H. Schomerus and C. W. J. Beenakker.

This classic text provides an excellent introduction to a new and rapidly developing field of research. Now well established as a textbook in this rapidly developing field of research, the new edition is much enlarged and covers a host of new results.