Modern Atomic Physics

Collecting information previously scattered throughout the literature, this text provides students with one unified guide to contemporary developments in the field. It shows students how atomic physics has played a key role in many other areas of physics. Important topics discussed include the spontaneous emission of radiation, stimulated transitions and the properties of gas, the physics and applications of resonance fluorescence, coherence, cooling and trapping of charged and neutral particles, and atomic beam magnetic resonance experiments.

List of contents

Metrology. Preliminaries. Atoms. Nucleus. Resonance. Interaction. Multiphoton. Coherence. Lineshapes. Spectroscopy. Cooling and Trapping. Appendices. Index.

About the author

Vasant Natarajan is a professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research focuses on laser cooling and trapping of atoms, quantum optics, optical tweezers, quantum computation in ion traps, and tests of time-reversal symmetry violation in the fundamental laws of physics using laser-cooled atoms. He earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Summary

Much of our understanding of physics in the last 30-plus years has come from research on atoms, photons, and their interactions. Collecting information previously scattered throughout the literature, Modern Atomic Physics provides students with one unified guide to contemporary developments in the field.

Product details

• Authors: Natarajan, Vasant Natarajan, Vasant (Indian Institute of Science Natarajan, Natarajan Vasant
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780367077136
• ISBN: 978-0-367-07713-6
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; SCIENCE / Physics / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Lasers & Photonics, SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear, Electrical Engineering, environmental science, engineering & technology, Life sciences: general issues, Optical physics, Atomic & molecular physics, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Atomic and Molecular Physics