Semiclassical Definition

sĕmē-klăsĭ-kəl, sĕmī-
adjective
Of, relating to, or being a work that in style or form falls between the classical and popular genres.
American Heritage
Somewhat classical in form, quality, etc.; specif., designating or of music that is like classical music but is less complex in nature and has a more immediate appeal.
Webster's New World

(physics) Describing any of various approximations to either relativistic or quantum mechanical physics that retains elements of classical physics.

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Semiclassical Sentence Examples

  • We extend the semiclassical theory of scarring of quantum eigenfunctions by classical periodic orbits to include situations where these orbits undergo generic bifurcations.

  • The study of how quantum systems, whose classical counterparts are chaotic, behave in the semiclassical limit has been called quantum chaos.

  • Structure in the angular distributions is analyzed using a semiclassical optical model.

  • This is known as the semiclassical approximation because its validity lies somewhere between that of classical and quantum physics.

  • The semiclassical quantization of the normal form has been investigated and in some cases a very good agreement with quantum results was found.

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