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Eine Zusammenstellung verschiedener theoretischer Ansätze zur Beschreibung der physikalischen Phänomene, die aus der Wechselwirkung zwischen Atom und Photon erwachsen. Das enthaltene Material, beispielsweise zu Störungsmethoden, aufgelösten Methoden, der Langevin-Gleichung und optischen Bloch-Methoden, wurde bislang nur in Originalarbeiten und speziellen Monographien veröffentlicht. (06/98)
List of contents
Transition Amplitudes in Electrodynamics.
A Survey of Some Interaction Processes Between Photons and Atoms.
Nonperturbative Calculation of Transition Amplitudes.
Radiation Considered as a Reservoir: Master Equation for the Particles.
Optical Bloch Equations.
The Dressed Atom Approach.
Exercises.
Appendix.
References.
Index.
About the author
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is Professor of Physics at the Collège de France. He is the coauthor of Quantum Mechanics, published by Wiley. Dr. Cohen-Tannoudji is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. He is a corecipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics.
Jacques Dupont-Roc holds a full-time research position at CNRS within the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel at the École Normale Supérieure. Dr. Dupont-Roc earned his PhD in atomic physics at the University of Paris.
Gilbert Grynberg is Professor of Physics at École Polytechnique and maintains a full-time research position at CNRS. Dr. Grynberg earned his PhD in atomic physics at the University of Paris.
