Atomic Physics

Published

2004

Publisher

Oxford University Press Academic UK

ISBN-13

9780191037078

ISBN-10

0191037079

Pages

344

Format

Kindle Edition

Language

English

This book is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics. However, the elementary atomic physics covered in the early chapters should be accessible to undergraduates when they are first introduced to the subject. The book describes some of the latest advances and the applications to Bose-Einstein condensation of atoms, matter-wave interferometry and quantum computing with trapped ions. To complement the usual quantum mechanical treatment of atomic structure the book strongly emphasizes the experimental basis of the subject, especially in the later chapters.