Quantum Chaos and Disorder: An Introduction with Sample Programs and Exercises (Lecture Notes in Physics, 1049)

This textbook on quantum chaos, quantum disorder, and connections to modern atomic and condensed matter physics is accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, but will also be a useful reference for researchers.As well as presenting a unique set of topics, the goal of the book is to develop physical intuition, but unlike other texts on quantum chaos, the reader is invited to explore the subject via a selection of numerical simulations tasks.To achieve this goal, the book introduces and discusses subjects like quantum chaos, quantum disorder, random matrix theory, and the Anderson model, illustrating them with the quantum kicked rotor (QKR).The kicked rotor, a paradigmatic system for both quantum chaos and quantum disorder, is conceptually very simple but many interesting aspects of its dynamics (both quantum and classical) can be easily simulated.A chapter on ultracold atoms allows the reader to understand the experimental realization of the QKR using only Masters-level