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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820010903321

Autore

Cohen-Tannoudji Claude <1933->

Titolo

Atoms in electromagnetic fields / / C. Cohen-Tannoudji

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2004

ISBN

1-281-88088-4

9786611880880

981-256-785-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (770 p.)

Collana

World Scientific series on atomic, molecular, and optical physics ; ; vol. 3

Disciplina

539.7

Soggetti

Electromagnetic fields

Photonuclear reactions

Atoms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

General Introduction; Contents; Section 1 Atoms in Weak Broadband Quasiresonant Light Fields Light Shifts - Linear Superpositions of Atomic Sublevels; Section 2 Atoms in Strong Radiofrequency Fields The Dressed Atom Approach in the Radiofrequency Domain; Section 3 Atoms in Intense Resonant Laser Beams The Dressed Atom Approach in the Optical Domain; Section 4 Photon Correlations and Quantum Jumps The Radiative Cascade of the Dressed Atom; Section 5 Atoms in High Frequency Fields or in the Vacuum Field Simple Physical Pictures for Radiative Corrections; Section 6 Atomic Motion in Laser Light

Section 7 Sisyphus Cooling and Subrecoil CoolingSection 8 Lévy Statistics and Laser Cooling; Section 9 Bose-Einstein Condensation; Section 10 A Few Review Papers

Sommario/riassunto

This invaluable book presents papers written during the last 40 years by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his collaborators on various physical effects which can be observed on atoms interacting with electromagnetic fields. It consists of a personal selection of review papers, lectures given at schools, as well as original experimental and theoretical papers. Emphasis is placed on physical mechanisms and on general approaches (such as the dressed atom approach) having a wide



range of applications. Various topics are discussed, such as atoms in intense laser fields, photon correlations, quantum jumps