Postmodern Quantum Mechanics

JUL 01, 1993

Recent progress in semiclassical theory has overcome barriers posed by classical chaos and cast light on the correspondence principle. Semiclassical ideas have also become central to new experiments in atomic, molecular, microwave and mesoscopic physics.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881358

Eric J. Heller

Steven Tomsovic

Postmodern movements are well known in the arts. After a major artistic revolution, and after the “modern” innovations have been assimilated, the threads of premodern thought are always reconsidered. Much of value may be rediscovered and put to new use. The modern context casts new light on premodern thought, which in turn shades perspectives on modernism.

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More about the authors

Eric J. Heller, Harvard University, Harvard‐Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Steven Tomsovic, University of Washington in Seattle.