2001/10/31 by Elmar Bittner, Bittner, Elmar, Harald Markum +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #hep-lat
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/0110222
Contribution to "Bexbach Colloquium on Science - BCS 2000" (Bexbach, Germany, 2000), 18 pages, 14 figures
arxiv created 2001/10/31 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
This article is the written version of a talk delivered at the Bexbach Colloquium of Science 2000 and starts with an introduction into quantum chaos and its relationship to classical chaos. The Bohigas-Giannoni-Schmit conjecture is formulated and evaluated within random-matrix theory. Several examples of physical systems exhibiting quantum chaos ranging from nuclear to solid state physics are presented. The presentation concludes with recent research work on quantum chromodynamics and the quark-gluon plasma. In the case of a chemical potential the eigenvalue spectrum becomes complex and one has to deal with non-Hermitian random-matrix theory.