Research Catalog

Title

Springer handbook of atomic, molecular, and optical physics / Gordon W.F. Drake (ed.).

Publication

Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Drake, Gordon W. F.

Description

lviii, 1504 p. : ill.; 25 cm +

Summary

One CD-ROM disc in pocket.

Alternative Title

• Atomic, molecular and optical physics
• Handbook of atomic, molecular, and optical physics

Subject

• Atoms > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Physics > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Molecules > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Optics > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Physics
• Quantum theory
• Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
• Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices
• Condensed Matter Physics
• Quantum Physics
• Quantum Optics
• Quantum Theory

Genre/Form

• Handbooks and manuals
• Handbooks and manuals.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows 95/98/ME 32MB RAM, Windows NT 4/2000/XP 65MB RAM; MAC OS9 or higher, 64MB RAM, 333MHz recommended; LINUX pentium I/166 MHz, 64MB RAM.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Units and constants -- PART A: MATHEMATICAL METHODS: Angular momentum theory -- Group theory of atomic shells -- Dynamical groups -- Perturbation theory -- Second quantization -- Density matices -- Computation techniques -- Hydrogenic wave functions -- PART B: ATOMS: Atomic spectroscopy -- High precision calculations for helium -- Atomic multipoles -- Atoms in strong fields -- Rydberg atoms -- Rydberg atoms for strong static fields -- Hyperfine structure -- Precision oscillator strength and lifetime measurements -- Spectroscopy of ions using fast beams and ion traps -- Line shapes and radiation transfer -- Thomas-Fermi and other density-functional theories -- Atomic structure: multiconfiguration Hartress--Fock theories -- Relativistic atomic structure -- Many-body theory of atomic structure and processes -- Photoionization of atoms -- Autoionization -- Green's functions of field theory -- Quantum electrodynamics -- Tests of fundamental physics --^
• Parity nonconserving effects in atoms -- Atomic clocks and constraints on variations of fundamental constrants -- PART C: MOLECULES: Molecular structures -- Molecular symmetry and dynamics -- Spectroscopic techniques: lasers -- Spectroscopic techniques: cavity-enhanced methods -- Spectroscopic techniques: ultraviolet -- PART D: Elastic scattering: classical, quantal, and semiclassical -- Orientation and alignment in atomic and molecular collisions -- Electron-atom, electron-ion, and electron-molecule collisions -- Positron collisons -- Adiabatic and diabatic collision processes at low energies -- Ion-Atom and atom-atom collisions -- Ion-atom charge transfer reactions at low energies -- Continuum distorted wave and Wannier methods -- Ionization in high energy ion-atom collisions -- Electron-ion and ion-ion recombination -- Dielectronic recombination -- Rydberg collision: binary encounter, born and impulse approximations -- Mass transfer at high energy: Thomas peak --^
• Classical trajectory and Monte Carlo technique -- Collision broadening of spectral lines -- PART E: SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS: Photodetachment -- Photon-atom interaction: low energy -- Photon-atom interaction: intermediate energies -- Electron-atom and electron-molecule collisions -- Ion-atom scattering experiments: low energy -- Ion-atom collisiions: high energy -- Reactive scattering -- Ion-molecule reactions -- PART F: QUANTUM OPTICS: Light-matter interaction -- Absorption and gain spectra -- Laser principles -- Theories of lasers -- Nonlinear optics -- Coherent transients -- Multiphoton and strong-field processes -- Cooling and trapping -- Quantum degenerate gases -- De Broglie optics -- Quantized field effects -- Entangled atoms and fields: cavity QED -- Quantum optical tests of the foundations of physics -- Quantum information -- PART G: APPLICATIONS: Applications of atomic and molecular physics to astrophysics -- Comets -- Aeronomy --^
• Application of atomic and molecular physics to global change -- Atoms in dense plasmas -- Conduction of electricity in gases -- Applications to combustion -- Surface physics -- Interface with nuclear physics -- Charged-particle-matter interactions --Radiation physics.

ISBN

038720802X

OCLC

1243759783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library