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![]() ADVANCES IN ATOMIC PHYSICS
An Overview
by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Laboratory Kastler Brossel,
France) & David Guéry-Odelin (Laboratory Collisions
Agrégats Réactivité, France)
750pp (approx.)
978-981-277-497-2(pbk): US$48 / £30 US$33.60
/ £21
978-981-277-496-5: US$98 / £61 US$68.60
/ £42.70
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the
spectacular advances seen in atomic physics during the last 50 years.
The authors explain how such progress was possible by highlighting
connections between developments that occurred at different times. They
discuss the new perspectives and the new research fields that look
promising. The emphasis is placed, not on detailed calculations, but
rather on physical ideas. Combining both theoretical and experimental
considerations, the book will be of interest to a wide range of
students, teachers and researchers in quantum and atomic physics.
Contents:
- General Background
- Optical Methods
- Linear Superpositions of Internal Atomic States
- Resonance Fluorescence
- Advances in High Resolution Spectroscopy
- Perturbations Due to a Quasi Resonant Optical
Excitation
- Perturbations Due to a High Frequency
Excitation
- Multiphoton Processes Between Discrete States
- Photoionization of Atoms in Intense Laser
fields
- Radiative Forces
- Laser Cooling of Two-Level Atoms
- Sub-Doppler Cooling, Sub-Recoil Cooling
- Trapping of Particles
- Two-Body Interactions at Low Temperature
- Controlling Atom-Atom Interactions
- Interference of Atomic de Broglie Waves
- Ramsey Fringes Revisited and Atomic
Interferometry
- Quantum Correlations. Entangled States
- Emergence of Quantum Effects in a Gas
- The Long Quest for Bose-Einstein Condensation
- Mean Field Description of a Bose-Einstein
Condensate
- Coherence Properties of Bose-Einstein
Condensates
- Elementary Excitations and Superfluidity in
Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Testing Fundamental Symmetries. Parity
Violation in Atoms
- Towards Extreme Conditions
- Towards Many Body Physics
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