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Looking for modern results in semiclassical physics and relevant references

What are some important approximations, especially those that are state-of-the-art, used to approximate the many-body dynamics of atoms and molecules in the semiclassical regime? To be clear, I'm not ...
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Bohr-van Leeuwen theorem and quantum mechanics

Preamble: If one considers an ideal gas of non interacting charged particles of charge $q$ in a uniform magnetic field $\mathbf{B} = \mathbf{\nabla} \wedge \mathbf{A}$, then the classical partition ...
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Alkali atom in oscilating electromagnetic field

I am trying to calculate atom - light (EM field) interaction Hamiltonian, and the results I get seem to me rather unphysical - I get some nonzero matrix elements which should not be there. Please, can ...
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Simulating the evolution of a wavepacket through a crystal lattice

I am interested simulating the evolution of an electronic wave packet through a crystal lattice which does not exhibit perfect translational symmetry. Specifically, in the Hamiltonian below, the ...
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Classical (or semi-classical) interpretation of photoelectric effect?

This site says that "it has recently been proven that the photoelectric effect can be interpreted classically (or at least semi-classically) in non-particle, wavelike terms". Is anyone familiar with ...
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Hawking Radiation from the WKB Approximation

Reading this paper which is itself an exposition of Parikh and Wilczek's paper, I get to a point where I fail to be able to follow the calculation. Now this is undoubtably because my calculational ...
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How does one quantize the phase-space semiclassically?

Often, when people give talks about semiclassical theories they are very shady about how quantization actually works. Usually they start with talking about a partition of $\hbar$-cells then end up ...
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spectral eigenvalue staircase and quantum system

in a d-dimensional system of Quantum physics , does the Eigenvalue staircase $ N(E)= \sum_{E_{n}\le E} 1 $ determine ALL the properties of Quantum System ?? for example, let us assume that the ...