Chaos - The Interplay Between Stochastic and Deterministic Behaviour

Stochastic processes from deterministic dynamics.- The interplay of classical and quantum stochastics: Diffusion, measurement and filtering.- Event enhanced and piecewise deterministic quantum theory or the right jump at the right place.- Wave mechanics: The interplay between stochastics and quanta.- Lévy processes and relativistic quantum dynamics.- Quantum coherence and decoherence in a classically chaotic experimentally accessible quantum optical system.- Anomalous diffusion, spontaneous localizations and the correspondence principle.- Quantum open systems as random classical dynamical systems.- Large-Scale Structure of the Universe and Asymptotics of Burgers' Turbulence with Heavy-tailed Dependent Data Yiming Hue and.- Convergence of iterative methods in perturbation theory.- Eigenfunction expansions for time dependent hamiltonians.- Strange attractors in higher-dimensional phase space.- Mathematical classification of complete chaos.- Anomalous diffusion and Lévy statistics in intermittent chaotic systems.- Classical and quantum chaotic scattering.- From fractals to stochastic differential equations.- Dissipative structures and weak turbulence.- Entropy and quantum characteristic exponents. steps towards a quantum pesin theory.- Rigorous numerics of chaotic dynamical systems.- The effect of symmetry breaking on random walks and brownian motion.- Quantum dynamical entropy.- Strange attractors in nonlinear oscillators.- Wave packet propagation, nonlinear dynamics, and constructing Chaotic Eigenstates.- Chaotic dynamics of weakly nonlinear systems.- Computer simulation of Lévy ?-stable variables and processes.- From quantum physics to probability theory and back.- Stochastic approach to many bosons physics.- Ionization of Rydberg atoms in a low frequency field:Modelling by maps of transition to chaotic behavior.- Periodic perturbations of chaotic dynamics.- p-adic stochastics with applications to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox.- Quantum chaos: double resonance

The papers collected here give a broad overview of the new efforts towards reconciling deterministic and stochastic processes as well as classical and quantum physics and towards understanding complex and unpredictable behaviour. The reader will find new views on fundamental concepts and see many applications of chaotic and random phenomena.

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