Optically Polarized Atoms: Understanding Light-Atom Interactions

by Marcis Auzinsh, Dmitry Budker, Simon Rochester, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198705026
• ISBN13: 9780198705024
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"