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Quantum Tunneling in Complex Systems pp 7–20Cite as

Semiclassical Approximation

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In the early days of quantum mechanics - before the concept of matter waves had been introduced - the understanding of atomic spectra was based on classical mechanics combined with conditions for discreteness.

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Ankerhold, J. (2007). Semiclassical Approximation. In: Quantum Tunneling in Complex Systems. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 224. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68076-4_2

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