ADVANCES IN ATOMIC PHYSICS

by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Collège de France, France & Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, France) & David Guéry-Odelin (Laboratoire Collisions Agrégats Réactivité, France)

Table of Contents (173k)
Foreword (63k)
Chapter 1: General introduction (149k)

About Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

About David Guéry-Odelin

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the spectacular advances seen in atomic physics during the last 50 years. The authors explain how such progress was possible by highlighting connections between developments that occurred at different times. They discuss the new perspectives and the new research fields that look promising. The emphasis is placed, not on detailed calculations, but rather on physical ideas. Combining both theoretical and experimental considerations, the book will be of interest to a wide range of students, teachers and researchers in quantum and atomic physics.

Contents:

General Introduction

General Background

Light: A Source of Information on Atoms:
- Optical Methods
- Linear Superpositions of Internal Atomic States
- Resonance Fluorescence
- Advances in High Resolution Spectroscopy
Atom-Photon Interactions: A Source of Perturbations for Atoms Which Can Be Useful:
- Perturbations Due to a Quasi Resonant Optical Excitation
- Perturbations Due to a High Frequency Excitation
Atom-Photon Interactions: A Simple System for Studying Higher Order Effects:
- Multiphoton Processes Between Discrete States
- Photoionization of Atoms in Intense Laser fields
Atom-Photon Interactions: A Tool for Controlling and Manipulating Atomic Motion:
- Radiative Forces Exerted on a Two-Level Atom at Rest
- Laser Cooling of Two-Level Atoms
- Sub-Doppler Cooling. Sub-Recoil Cooling
- Trapping of Particles
Ultracold Interactions and Their Control:
- Two-Body Interactions at Low Temperatures
- Controlling Atom-Atom Interactions
Exploring Quantum Interferences with Few Atoms and Photons:
- Interference of Atomic de Broglie Waves
- Ramsey Fringes Revisited and Atomic Interferometry
- Quantum Correlations. Entangled States
Degenerate Quantum Gases:
- Emergence of Quantum Effects in a Gas
- The Long Quest for Bose-Einstein Condensation
- Mean Field Description of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
- Coherence Properties of Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Elementary Excitations and Superfluidity in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Frontiers of Atomic Physics:
- Testing Fundamental Symmetries. Parity Violation in Atoms
- Quantum Gases as Simple Systems for Many-Body Physics
- Extreme Light
- General Conclusion

Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics interested in quantum and atomic physics.

“Advances in Atomic Physics by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and David Guery-Odelin is destined to become a classic. This book describes the spectacular advances of recent decades that have transformed atomic physics into one of the most exciting fields in science. The single volume constitutes a guide, a handbook, a textbook, and an encyclopedia of atomic physics. Throughout, the voice of Claude Çohen-Tannoudji — whose own contributions were seminal to this transformation and whose lectures at the College de France are legendary — rings through with the elegance and transparency that rank him as among the great teachers of our time.”

Daniel Kleppner
Center for Ultracold Atoms, MIT

“This book describes the breathtaking advances of atomic physics during the last decades. The authors have played a major role in these developments and describe them with unique lucidity.”

Wolfgang Ketterle
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

“I think that this book will be of high value for the scientific community involved in atomic physics and in general for students and researchers interested in the last applications of quantum physics, both from an experimental and theoretical perspective. It contains a detailed and comprehensive overview of the most challenging developments in this fascinating field of physics, including the most recent achievements in atomic interferometry, entanglement phenomena and ultracold quantum gases.”

Sandro Stringari
CNR-INO Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation
University of Trento, Italy

“For young students just beginning an education in atomic physics to experienced researchers like myself who have lived through many of the exciting and still ongoing developments recounted here, and for all those in between, this book presents an inviting feast. Bon appétit!”

William D Phillips
Nobel Laureate, 1997
University of Maryland

“It is a most-interesting collection of topics organized in a unique and interesting way.”

Steve Harris
Stanford University

“It is a great occasion that Claude Cohen-Tannoudji as a true master of the AMO field took the effort to summarize the experience of a lifetime in a comprehensive text. David Guéry-Odelin is the ideal sparring partner on such an enterprise … This impressive new book offers a unique overview over half a century of advances in atomic physics. It belongs on the desktops and in the iPads of every serious student of modern atomic physics.”

Jook Walraven
University of Amsterdam

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