Atom-Photon Interactions: Basic Processes and Applications - Softcover

Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude; Dupont-Roc, Jacques; Grynberg, Gilbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471293369 ISBN 13: 9780471293361

Publisher: Wiley-VCH, 1998

Synopsis

Atom-Photon Interactions: Basic Processes and Applications allows the reader to master various aspects of the physics of the interaction between light and matter. It is devoted to the study of the interactions between photons and atoms in atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics, and laser physics. The elementary processes in which photons are emitted, absorbed, scattered, or exchanged between atoms are treated in detail and described using diagrammatic representation. The book presents different theoretical approaches, including:

• Perturbative methods
• The resolvent method
• Use of the master equation
• The Langevin equation
• The optical Bloch equations
• The dressed-atom approach

Each method is presented in a self-contained manner so that it may be studied independently. Many applications of these approaches to simple and important physical phenomena are given to illustrate the potential and limitations of each method.

About this title

About the Author

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is Professor of Physics at the College de France. He is the coauthor of Quantum Mechanics, published by Wiley. Dr. Cohen-Tannoudji is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. He is a corecipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics.

Jacques Dupont-Roc holds a full-time research position at CNRS within the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel at the Ecole Normale Superieure. Dr. Dupont-Roc earned his PhD in atomic physics at the University of Paris.

Gilbert Grynberg is Professor of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique and maintains a full-time research position at CNRS. Dr. Grynberg earned his PhD in atomic physics at the University of Paris.

From the Back Cover

Atom-Photon Interactions: Basic Processes and Applications allows the reader to master various aspects of the physics of the interaction between light and matter. It is devoted to the study of the interactions between photons and atoms in atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics, and laser physics. The elementary processes in which photons are emitted, absorbed, scattered, or exchanged between atoms are treated in detail and described using diagrammatic representation. The book presents different theoretical approaches, including:
* Perturbative methods
* The resolvent method
* Use of the master equation
* The Langevin equation
* The optical Bloch equations
* The dressed-atom approach

Each method is presented in a self-contained manner so that it may be studied independently. Many applications of these approaches to simple and important physical phenomena are given to illustrate the potential and limitations of each method.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471293369
• ISBN 13: 9780471293361
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 678