Einstein’s Unknown Insight and the Problem of Quantizing Chaos

2005/08/01 by A. Douglas Stone · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #CHAOS (operating system) #Chaos control and synchronization #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Computer security #Einstein #Physics #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics

paper · doi:10.1063/1.2062917

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Abstract

Chaotic systems were beyond the reach of an ingenious coordinate-invariant quantization scheme developed by Albert Einstein, and to this day, their quantization remains a challenge.

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