Springer Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Springer Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Author: Gordon W. F. Drake

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-02-05

Total Pages: 1505

ISBN-13: 038726308X

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Comprises a comprehensive reference source that unifies the entire fields of atomic molecular and optical (AMO) physics, assembling the principal ideas, techniques and results of the field. 92 chapters written by about 120 authors present the principal ideas, techniques and results of the field, together with a guide to the primary research literature (carefully edited to ensure a uniform coverage and style, with extensive cross-references). Along with a summary of key ideas, techniques, and results, many chapters offer diagrams of apparatus, graphs, and tables of data. From atomic spectroscopy to applications in comets, one finds contributions from over 100 authors, all leaders in their respective disciplines. Substantially updated and expanded since the original 1996 edition, it now contains several entirely new chapters covering current areas of great research interest that barely existed in 1996, such as Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum information, and cosmological variations of the fundamental constants. A fully-searchable CD- ROM version of the contents accompanies the handbook.


Manipulating Quantum Structures Using Laser Pulses

Manipulating Quantum Structures Using Laser Pulses

Author: Bruce W. Shore

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-09-29

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 113950228X

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The use of laser pulses to alter the internal quantum structure of individual atoms and molecules has applications in quantum information processing, the coherent control of chemical reactions and in quantum-state engineering. This book presents the underlying theory of such quantum-state manipulation for researchers and graduate students. The book provides the equations, and approaches for their solution, which can be applied to complicated multilevel quantum systems. It also gives the background theory for application to isolated atoms or trapped ions, simple molecules and atoms embedded in solids. Particular attention is given to the ways in which quantum changes can be displayed graphically to help readers understand how quantum changes can be controlled.


Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0128003014

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Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics publishes reviews of recent developments in a field that is in a state of rapid growth, as new experimental and theoretical techniques are used on many old and new problems. Topics covered include related applied areas, such as atmospheric science, astrophysics, surface physics and laser physics. Articles are written by distinguished experts and contain relevant review material and detailed descriptions of important recent developments. - International experts - Comprehensive articles - New developments


Our Changing Views of Photons

Our Changing Views of Photons

Author: Bruce W. Shore

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-09-11

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 0192607642

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Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light. Increasingly one reads of photons as essential to enterprises in Photonics and Quantum Technology, with career and investment opportunities. Notions of photons have evolved from the energy-packet crowds of Planck and Einstein, the later field modes of Dirac, the seeming conflict of wave and particle photons, to the ubiquitous laser photons of today. Readers who take interest in contemporary technology will benefit from learning what photons are now considered to be, and how our views of photons have changed — in learning about the various operational definitions that have been used for photons and their association with a variety of quantum-state manipulations that include Quantum Information, astronomical sources and crowds of photons, the boxed fields of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and single photons on demand, the photons of Feynman and Glauber, and the photon constituents of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The narrative points to contemporary photons as causers of change to atoms, as carriers of messages, and as subject to controllable creation and alteration — a considerable diversity of photons, not just one kind. Our Changing Views of Photons: A Tutorial Memoir presents those general topics as a memoir of the author's involvement with physics and the photons of theoretical Quantum Optics, written conversationally for readers with no assumed prior exposure to science. It offers lay readers a glimpse of scientific discovery — of how ideas become practical, as a small scientific community reconsiders its assumptions and offers the theoretical ideas that are then developed, revised, and adopted into technology for daily use. For readers who want a more detailed understanding of the theory, three substantial appendices provide tutorials that, assuming no prior familiarity, proceed from a very elementary start to basics of discrete states and abstract vector spaces; Lie groups; notions of quantum theory and the Schrödinger equation for quantum-state manipulation; Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism, with wave modes that become photons, possibly exhibiting quantum entanglement; and the coupling of atoms and fields to create quasiparticles. The appendices can be seen as a companion to traditional textbooks on Quantum Optics.


Quantum Optics for Engineers

Quantum Optics for Engineers

Author: F.J. Duarte

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2024-02-29

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1003845681

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The second edition of Quantum Optics for Engineers: Quantum Entanglement is an updated and extended version of its first edition. New features include a transparent interferometric derivation of the physics for quantum entanglement devoid of mysteries and paradoxes. It also provides a utilitarian matrix version of quantum entanglement apt for engineering applications. Features: Introduces quantum entanglement via the Dirac–Feynman interferometric principle, free of paradoxes. Provides a practical matrix version of quantum entanglement which is highly utilitarian and useful for engineers. Focuses on the physics relevant to quantum entanglement and is coherently and consistently presented via Dirac’s notation. Illustrates the interferometric quantum origin of fundamental optical principles such as diffraction, refraction, and reflection. Emphasizes mathematical transparency and extends on a pragmatic interpretation of quantum mechanics. This book is written for advanced physics and engineering students, practicing engineers, and scientists seeking a workable-practical introduction to quantum optics and quantum entanglement.


Laboratory Astrochemistry

Laboratory Astrochemistry

Author: Stephan Schlemmer

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-12-08

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 3527653163

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Written by leading scientists in the field and intended for a broader readership, this is an ideal starting point for an overview of current research and developments. As such, the book covers a broad spectrum of laboratory astrophysics and chemistry, describing recent advances in experiments, as well as theoretical work, including fundamental physics and modeling chemical networks. For researchers as well as students and newcomers to the field.


The Proceedings of the Festschrift in Honor of Bruce H.J. McKellar and Girish C. Joshi

The Proceedings of the Festschrift in Honor of Bruce H.J. McKellar and Girish C. Joshi

Author: Raymond R. Volkas

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9812770305

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These proceedings honor the long careers in theoretical particle physics of B H J McKellar and G C Joshi, who established theoretical particle physics research at the University of Melbourne. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Three Nucleon Forces and Nuclear Structure (356 KB). Contents: Three Nucleon Forces and Nuclear Structure (B R Barrett); How Magnetic is the Neutrino? (N F Bell); Anions and Anomalies (M Bawin et al.); Property Values (R Delbourgo); Interacting Bose Gas Confined by an External Potential (G Gnanapragasam & M Das); Variation of the Fundamental Constants: Theory and Observations (V V Flambaum); Mirror Dark Matter (R Foot); Analytic, Non-Perturbative, Almost-Exact QED: The Two-Point Function (H M Fried); Sterile Neutrinos in a 6 x 6 Matrix Approach (T Goldman); Particle Physics in Condensed Matter (C Hamer); CP Violation (X-G He); Quantum Computation in Silicon OCo Device Modeling, Transport and Fault-Tolerance (L C L Hollenberg); Born Reciprocity in Two Dimensions: Quaplectic Group Symmetry, Branching Rules and State Labelling (P D Jarvis); QuarkOCoLepton Symmetry and Quartification in Five Dimensions (K L McDonald); MSW in Reverse, What SNO Says About PseudoOCoDirac Neutrinos (G J Stephenson, Jr); Looking Forward to the Large Hadron Collider (G N Taylor); Some Recent Lattice QCD Results from the CSSM (S Boinpolli et al.). Readership: Physicist and academic.


Exoplanet Atmospheres

Exoplanet Atmospheres

Author: Sara Seager

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2010-08-22

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0691146454

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Describes the basic physical processes, including radiative transfer, molecular absorption, and chemical processes, common to all planetary atmospheres as well as the transit, eclipse, and thermal phase variation observations that are unique to exoplanets.


Progress in Optics

Progress in Optics

Author: Emil Wolf

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2009-05-06

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0444533508

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In the fourty-seven years that have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series which have appeared up to now contain more than 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments. Backscattering and Anderson localization of light Advances in oliton manipulation in optical lattices Fundamental quantum noise in optical amplification Invisibility cloaks


Progress in Optics

Progress in Optics

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Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2007-11-07

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0080931944

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In the fourty-six years that have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series which have appeared up to now contain nearly 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments. - Historical Overview - Attosecond Laser Pulses - History of Conical Refraction - Particle Concept of Light - Field Quantization in Optics - History of Near-Field Optics - History of Tunneling - Influence of Young's Interference Experiment on Development of Statistical optics - Planck, Photon Statistics and Bose-Einstein Condensation