Optically Polarized Atoms: Understanding light-atom interactions

Rochester Simon Budker Dmitry Auzinsh Marcis

ISBN 10: 0198705026 / ISBN 13: 9780198705024

Published by Oxford University Press, 2014

About this Item

PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 400.

Seller Inventory # 1897335789

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Optically Polarized Atoms: Understanding light-atom interactions
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198705026
• ISBN 13: 9780198705024
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

This book is addressed to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in research in atomic, molecular, and optical physics. It will also be useful to researchers practising in this field. It gives an intuitive, yet sufficiently detailed and rigorous introduction to light-atom interactions with a particular emphasis on the symmetry aspects of the interaction, especially those associated with the angular momentum of atoms and light. The book will enable readers to carry out practical calculations on their own, and is richly illustrated with examples drawn from current research topics, such as resonant nonlinear magneto-opticals. The book comes with a software package for a variety of atomic-physics calculations and further interactive examples that is freely downloadable from the book's web page, as well as additional materials (such as power-point presentations) available to instructors who adopt the text for their courses.

About the Author

Marcis Auzinsh, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Latvia, Latvia,Dmitry Budker, Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, California,Simon Rochester, Graduate Student Researcher, University of California at Berkeley, California, USA

Marcis Auzinsh is the Rector of the University of Latvia, where he was previously Chairman of the Senate, Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, and Head of Center of Excellence for Basic Research in Nanoscale Physics and Application. He has held visiting positions at universities around the world, and is a Member of Executive Commitee of the European Physical Society.

Dmitry Budker took his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley, where he won the 1994 American Physical Society Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics. He is now a Professor of Physics there. In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and in 2009 became a American Physical Society Outstanding Referee.

Simon M. Rochester is a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, where he holds a NASA Earth System Science Fellowship.