Atomic Physics

Produktbeschreibung

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). 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* 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 BEC


* 11: Atom Interferometry


* 12: Ion Traps


* 13: Quantum Computing 

Kritik

Absolutely brillant textbook ... Strongly recommended and A textbook that must be definitively be acquired in the Libraries of Universities! Dr. Thierry-Philippe Picornell, GSz 

Autoreninfo

CJ Foot was a Junior Research Fellow of Jesus College in Oxford 1984-86, as well as being awarded the Lindemann Trust Fellowship at Stanford University 1984-85 and the Royal Society University Research Fellowship 1986-1991. In 1991, he became a university lecturer and was awarded the title of Professor of physics in 2002. He won the National Physical Laboratory Metrology Award in 1990.