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Optically Polarized Atoms Marcis Auzinsh (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Latvia, Latvia)

Optically Polarized Atoms By Marcis Auzinsh (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Latvia, Latvia)

Optically Polarized Atoms by Marcis Auzinsh (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Latvia, Latvia)

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An accessible textbook for students and practitioners of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. It will be useful for scientists working with lasers. The book comes with an extensive freely downloadable software package and many colourful and animated illustrations. Additional materials are available for instructors.

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Optically Polarized Atoms: Understanding light-atom interactions by Marcis Auzinsh (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Latvia, Latvia)

This book is addressed at 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-optical effects. 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.

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I highly recommend Optically Polarized Atoms and will probably use it next time I teach my graduate course. [...] The book is specifically intended for use in a one-semester course in which the symmetry and angular-momentum aspects of atomic structure and laser-atom interactions are central. [...] The level of detail and the clarity of explanations are admirable. * Daniel F.V. James, Physics Today *
The recently published book Optically Polarized Atoms by Marcis Auzinsh, Dmitry Budker and Simon M. Rochester will be a unique and valuable addition to the library of anyone - students or established researchers[...]It provides a rich mine of information about atomic physics that is hard to find elsewhere. I intend to keep a copy on my shelf of favorite physics books. * William Happer, Princeton University *

About Marcis Auzinsh (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Latvia, Latvia)

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.

Table of Contents

I: INTRODUCTION TO LIGHT-ATOM INTERACTIONS ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Atomic States ; 3. A bit of angular-momentum theory ; 4. Atoms in external electric and magnetic fields ; 5. Polarized atoms ; 6. Polarized light ; 7. Atomic transitions ; 8. Coherence in atomic systems ; 9. Optical pumping ; 10. Light-atom interaction observed in transmitted light ; II: ADVANCED TOPICS ; 11. Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation ; 12. Perturbative analysis of light-atom interactions ; 13. Polarization effects in transitions with partially resolved hyperfine structure ; 14. The effect of hyperfine splitting on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation ; 15. Spectral properties of excitation light; ground-state coherence effects revisited ; 16. Collapse and revival in quantum beats ; 17. Nuclear quadrupole resonance and alignment-to-orientation conversion ; 18. Selective addressing of high-rank polarization moments ; 19. Tensor structure of the DC- and AC-Stark polarizabilities ; 20. Photoionization of polarized atoms with polarized light ; Appendix A Constants, units and notations ; Appendix B Units of energy, frequency and wavelength ; Appendix C Reference data for hydrogen and the alkali atoms ; Appendix D Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with hyperfine structure ; Appendix E The Atomic Density Matrix software package

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NPB9780199565122
9780199565122
0199565120
Optically Polarized Atoms: Understanding light-atom interactions by Marcis Auzinsh (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Latvia, Latvia)
Marcis Auzinsh (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Latvia, Latvia)
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Oxford University Press
2010-07-22
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