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Atom Optics Pierre Meystre

Atom Optics By Pierre Meystre

Atom Optics by Pierre Meystre


Summary

Quantum mechanics does away with the distinction between particles and waves, and one of the more interesting implications of the wave/particle duality - the discovery that atoms may be manipulated in ways analogous to the manipulation of light with lenses and mirrors - has formed the basis for the relatively new field of atom optics.

Atom Optics Summary

Atom Optics by Pierre Meystre

Quantum mechanics does away with the distinction between particles and waves, and one of the more interesting implications of the wave/particle duality - the discovery that atoms may be manipulated in ways analogous to the manipulation of light with lenses and mirrors - has formed the basis for the relatively new field of atom optics. Pierre Meystre's Atom Optics is the first book entirely devoted to this exciting area of research. Reference links to the leading journals in the field, links to research sites, graphics, and updates can be found online.

Atom Optics Reviews

From the reviews:

The book is well laid out and elegantly written.-The Physicist

Atom optics today has reached maturity: It has become both wave (coherent) and nonlinear atom optics. Of course that expansion required generalization in a new book. Pierre Meystre has taken just such a generalist approach in his timely ATOM OPTICS. His were the pioneering works in atom optics; to get information from the first explorer is always most valuable to the reader ... Recommend[ed] to all strata of the physics community.
-PHYSICS TODAY

Pierre Meystre has taken ... a generalist approach in his timely Atom Optics. His were the pioneering works in atom optics; to get information from the first explorer is always most valuable to the reader. ... The circle of potential readers of the book is very wide - from graduate students to professors ... . I therefore recommend it to all strata of the physics community. (Vladilen Letokhov, Physics Today, November, 2002)

Pierre Meystre is a theoretical physicist at the University of Arizona. His book entitled 'Atom Physics' is the first book published on the subject. ... This book is well laid out and elegantly written. I believe that this book, combined with Hal Metcalf's 'Laser Cooling and Trapping', forms an excellent introduction at a postgraduate level to atom optics. (A. G. Truscott, The Physicist, Vol. 39 (4), 2002)

Table of Contents

I. GENERAL CONCEPTS 1. Light forces on atoms 2. Atomic cooling II. LINEAR ATOM OPTICS 3. Atomic beam collimation and focusing 4. Atomic diffraction 5. Atomic traps and activities III. NONLINEAR ATOM OPTICS 6. Collisions 7. Simple applications IV. QUANTUM ATOM OPTICS 8. Review of manybody theory 9. Matter-wave coherence 10. Bose-Einstein condensation 11. Atom lasers 12. Nonlinear wave mixing 13. Mixing of optical and matter waves

Additional information

NLS9781441929303
9781441929303
1441929304
Atom Optics by Pierre Meystre
New
Paperback
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2010-12-03
312
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