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Beschreibung
Laser cooling is a relatively new technique that has led to new insights into the behavior of atoms as well as confirming with striking detail some of the fundamental notions of quantum mechanics. This text for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students covers the foundations, the important techniques, and a broad range of applications: from atomic clocks and studies of collision processes to diffraction and interference of atomic beams at optical lattices and Bose-Einstein condensation.
Laser cooling is a relatively new technique that has led to new insights into the behavior of atoms as well as confirming with striking detail some of the fundamental notions of quantum mechanics. This text for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students covers the foundations, the important techniques, and a broad range of applications: from atomic clocks and studies of collision processes to diffraction and interference of atomic beams at optical lattices and Bose-Einstein condensation.
Zusammenfassung
Laser cooling is a relatively new technique that has led to new insights into the behavior of atoms as well as confirming with striking detail some of the fundamental notions of quantum mechanics. This text for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students covers the foundations, the important techniques, and a broad range of applications: from atomic clocks and studies of collision processes to diffraction and interference of atomic beams at optical lattices and Bose-Einstein condensation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
I Introduction.- 1 Review of Quantum Mechanics.- 2 The Density Matrix.- 3 Force on Two-Level Atoms.- 4 Multilevel Atoms.- 5 General Properties Concerning Laser Cooling.- II Cooling & Trapping.- 6 Deceleration of an Atomic Beam.- 7 Optical Molasses.- 8 Cooling Below the Doppler Limit.- 9 The Dipole Force.- 10 Magnetic Trapping of Neutral Atoms.- 11 Optical Traps for Neutral Atoms.- 12 Evaporative Cooling.- III Applications.- 13 Newtonian Atom Optics and its Applications.- 14 Ultra-cold Collisions.- 15 deBroglie Wave Optics.- 16 Optical Lattices.- 17 Bose-Einstein Condensation.- 18 Dark States.- IV Appendices.- A Notation and Definitions.- B Review Articles and Books on Laser Cooling.- C Characteristic Data.- D Transition Strengths.- References.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Fachbereich: Elektrizität/Magnetismus/Optik
Genre: Importe, Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
Inhalt: xvi
324 S.
115 s/w Illustr.
7 s/w Fotos
108 s/w Zeichng.
ISBN-13: 9780387987286
ISBN-10: 0387987282
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Metcalf, Harold J.
Straten, Peter Van Der
Straten, Peter Van Der
Hersteller: Springer
Springer US, New York, N.Y.
Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 235 x 155 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Harold J. Metcalf (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.1999
Gewicht: 0,522 kg
Artikel-ID: 103843276