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This text will thoroughly update the existing literature on atomic physics. Intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics, the book will lead the students up to the latest advances and the applications to Bose-Einstein Condensation of atoms, matter-wave inter-ferometry and quantum computing with trapped ions. The elementary atomic physics covered in the early chapters should be accessible to undergraduates when they are first introduced to the subject. To complement the usual quantum mechanical treatment of atomic structure the book strongly emphasizes the experimental basis of the subject, especially in the later chapters. It includes ample tutorial material (examples, illustrations, chapter summaries, graded problem sets).
Content:-
1. Early atomic physics
2. The hydrogen atom
3. Helium
4. The alkalis
5. The LS-coupling scheme
6. Hyperfine structure and isotope shift
7. The interaction of atoms with radiation
8. Doppler-free laser spectroscopy
9. Laser cooling and trapping
10. Magnetic trapping, evaporative cooling and Bose–Einstein condensation
11. Atom interferometry
12. Ion traps
13. Quantum computing
Appendix A: Perturbation theory
Appendix B: The calculation of electrostatic energies
Appendix C: Magnetic dipole transitions
Appendix D: The line shape in saturated absorption spectroscopy
Appendix E: Raman and two-photon transitions
Appendix F: The statistical mechanics of Bose–Einstein condensation
References
Index
Author Details
"Christopher J. Foot"
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