UID:
edocfu_9959238065802883
Format:
1 online resource (349 p.)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-19-150963-9
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0-19-852584-2
Content:
This book illustrates the history of Atomic Physics and shows how its most recent advances allow the possibility of performing precise measurements and achieving an accurate control on the atomic state. Written in an introductory style, this book is addressed to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to more experienced researchers who need to remain up-to-date with the most recent advances. The book focuses on experimental investigations, illustrating milestoneexperiments and key experimental techniques, and discusses the results and the challenges of contemporary research.
Note:
"University of Florence Department of Physics and Astronomy, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) and National Research Council (CNR), Italy."
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Cover; Contents; 1 Hydrogen; 1.1 The hydrogen spectrum; 1.2 Balmer-α: from Bohr to QED; 1.2.1 Fine structure; 1.2.2 Doppler effect and saturation spectroscopy; 1.2.3 Lamb shift; 1.3 1s-2s: a quest for precision; 1.3.1 Two-photon spectroscopy; 1.4 Optical frequency measurements; 1.4.1 Frequency chains; 1.4.2 Frequency combs; 1.4.3 The Rydberg constant; 1.5 New frontiers of hydrogen; 1.5.1 Spectroscopy of exotic hydrogen; 1.5.2 Spectroscopy of antimatter; 2 Alkali atoms and laser cooling; 2.1 Alkali atoms; 2.2 Atomic clocks; 2.2.1 Microwave atomic clocks; 2.2.2 Ramsey spectroscopy; 2.2.3 Masers
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2.3 Laser cooling2.3.1 Radiation pressure; 2.3.2 Atomic beam deceleration; 2.3.3 Doppler cooling; 2.3.4 Sub-Doppler cooling; 2.3.5 Magneto-optical traps; 2.3.6 Laser cooling in multi-level atoms; 2.4 Laser-cooled atomic clocks; 2.4.1 Improving atomic fountain clocks; 2.5 Atom interferometry; 2.5.1 Gravity measurements; 2.5.2 Interferometers for inertial forces; 3 Bose-Einstein condensation; 3.1 Experimental techniques; 3.1.1 Magnetic traps; 3.1.2 Evaporative cooling; 3.1.3 Sympathetic cooling; 3.1.4 Atom-atom interactions and Feshbach resonances; 3.1.5 Imaging ultracold atoms
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3.2 Bose-Einstein condensates3.2.1 BEC transition; 3.2.2 BEC excitations; 3.2.3 Superuidity; 3.2.4 Phase coherence; 3.2.5 BEC for precision measurements; 3.2.6 Interferometry with BECs; 3.3 Fermi gases; 3.3.1 Fermionic superuidity; 3.4 Non-alkali BECs; 3.4.1 Hydrogen; 3.4.2 Two-electron atoms; 3.4.3 Dipolar atoms; 3.5 Cold molecules; 3.5.1 Cooling molecules; 3.5.2 Quantum gases with dipolar interaction; 3.5.3 Tests of fundamental physics; 4 Helium; 4.1 The helium spectrum; 4.1.1 Helium laser spectroscopy; 4.2 Helium fine structure; 4.2.1 Microwave measurements; 4.2.2 Optical measurements
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4.3 Quantum degenerate metastable helium4.3.1 Detecting atom-atom correlations; 4.4 More on helium spectroscopy; 4.4.1 Helium nuclear charge radius; 4.4.2 Antiprotonic helium; 4.5 The fine structure constant α; 4.5.1 Electron gyromagnetic anomaly; 4.5.2 h/m ratio; 4.5.3 Quantum Hall effect; 4.5.4 Helium fine structure and three-body QED; 5 Alkaline-earth atoms and ions; 5.1 Alkaline-earth atoms; 5.1.1 Laser cooling of alkaline-earth atoms; 5.2 Optical traps; 5.2.1 Optical dipole force; 5.2.2 Applications of optical trapping; 5.3 Optical clocks; 5.3.1 Neutral atoms lattice clocks
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5.3.2 Sub-Hz lasers5.4 Trapped ions; 5.4.1 Ion traps; 5.4.2 Ion cooling; 5.5 Ion clocks; 5.5.1 General relativity tests; 5.5.2 Stability of fundamental constants; 6 Optical lattices and precise measurements; 6.1 Quantum transport in periodic potentials; 6.1.1 Bloch theorem and energy bands; 6.1.2 Dynamics of a Bloch wavepacket; 6.1.3 Bloch oscillations; 6.1.4 Josephson picture of the tight-binding limit; 6.2 Optical lattices; 6.3 Experiments with cold atoms; 6.3.1 Observation of Bloch oscillations; 6.3.2 Measurement of h/m with optical lattices; 6.3.3 Large-area atom interferometers
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6.4 Experiments with quantum gases
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-83293-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-178005-7
Language:
English
