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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)
800pp (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
describes the breathtaking advances
of atomic physics during the last
decades. The authors have played a
major role in these developments and
describe them with unique lucidity."
-- Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT-Harvard Center
for Ultracold Atoms
"I think that this
book will be of high value for the
scientific community involved in
atomic physics and in general for
students and researchers interested
in the last applications of quantum
physics, both from an experimental
and theoretical perspective. It
contains a detailed and
comprehensive overview of the most
challenging developments in this
fascinating field of physics,
including the most recent
achievements in atomic
interferometry, entanglement
phenomena and ultracold quantum
gases." -- Sandro
Stringari, CNR-INO Center on
Bose-Einstein Condensation, University
of Trento, Italy
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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