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This book is terrible
This book so intractable, I don't see how you can understand it unless you are the crack addict that taught this guy how to write textbooks in the first place.This book Presupposes that you have a PhD before you read it.I don't.I am attempting to get mine.It is incredibly difficult when woodgate just spouts things off rediculously.The circus of confusion starts when he begins to define the energy of photons in terms of inverse centimeters.While it is quite clear why you COULD do this, it has never been made clear to me why you WOULD do this.And why does woodgate have an aversion to using eV?He relies on Kelvin a lot.If you intend to use this book, be sure you have GRADUATE Stat/Mech or Stat Thermo FIRST.A full GRADUATE treatment of quantum mechanics is also a MUST.Don't even attempt to pick up this deceptively light book until then.You simply can't teach yourself anything out of this book.For example he tells you that you need to take the norm of the J+J- Matrix for part of one of his many derivations.That's all well and good and if you are an AMO physicist, it is probably quite clear to you what he is talking about, but according to all my linear algebra textbooks, the "norm" is one of the most poorly defined words there is.If it's a vector, then it could be the length.If it's a matrix it's any positive number associated with the matrix that has one of six or so properties.....so how are you suppossed to figure out which one he's talking about?A brief comment would have helped here...but then the book would be 800 pages if it were properly annotated.In short this book sucks.

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Excellent text on Atomic spectroscopy-written by an expert. ... Read more

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This book is concerned with a wide range of general principles that govern the behaviour of atoms in solids, and these principles are applied to the full range of types of materials known to man. The dual focus is on the structures of materials at an atomic level and on how the atoms vibrate inside solids. This dual focus comes together to explore how the atomic principles determine the behaviour and properties of materials. Attention is also given to experimental methods. The general principles include the factors that determine the packing of atoms to form the huge variety of structures, the formal description of real and reciprocal space, the types of atomic bonding, the formalism of atomic vibrations, and the theories of phase transitions. The tools covered include diffraction and spectroscopy, both laboratory and large-scale facilities. ... Read more

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The primary objectives of this book are, firstly, to present the essential theoretical background needed to understand recent fusion research and, secondly, to describe the current status of fusion research for graduate students and senior undergraduates. It will also serve as a useful reference for scientists and engineers working in the related fields. In Part I, Plasma Physics, the author explains the basics of magneto-hydrodynamics and kinetic theory in a simple and compact way and, at the same time, covers important new topics for fusion studies such as the ballooning representation, instabilities driven by energetic particles, and various plasma models for computer simulations. Part II, Controlled Nuclear Fusion, attempts to review the "big picture" in fusion research. Mathematical derivations are comprehensively explained to better enable readers to later concentrate on the physics. All important phenomena and technologies are addressed, with a particular emphasis on the topics of most concern in current research.

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This text is intended to teach the fundamentals of physics to computer scientists, electrical engineers, and others interested in electronics. The presentation is thus directed toward understanding the fundamental physics of how a computer works, while still providing a broad and effective one-year introduction to classical and modern physics.The first half of the book includes many of the topics of a standard introductory physics course, but with the selection and presentation tailored to be of use in the second half, which develops the physics of semiconductor devices. This second part covers the fundamentals of quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, crystal structure, semiconductor devices, and logic circuits. The mathematical complexities are alleviated by intuitive physical arguments. Students are encouraged to use their own programming skills to solve problems. Some knowledge of calculus is a prerequisite, and the second part can serve by itself as an introduction to the physics of electronic materials and devices for students who have had a standard two-semester introductory physics course. In this second edition, the material on electronic devices has been updated and the coverage of carrier transport, operation of bipolar transistors and MOSFETs, and fabrication of integrated circuits has been expanded. New material includes descriptions of the fundamentals of solar cells, dynamic random-access memories, charged-coupled-device imaging arrays, and of such compound semiconductor devices as light-emitting diodes and heterostructure lasers. ... Read more

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Too short and not enough info
This book does not elaborate the topics . It is very short and not enough info to gain knowledge. So I am looking for a good study guide for this book, it might help. ... Read more

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Atomic and Molecular Beams covers the state of the art in this field both theoretically and experimentally. With many contributions from leading researchers, including several Nobel laureates, this book will serve as a long lasting source of reference on all aspects of fundamental research into or using atomic and molecular beams. The topics covered in this volume include amongst others laser cooling and manipulation of atoms and molecules, alignment, relaxation and condensation in supersonic jets, photodissociation, spectroscopy and state imaging in beams, dynamics of elementary molecular collisions, production and properties of clusters and nanoparticles and beam interactions with surfaces. ... Read more

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Volume 55 of the Advances Series contains seven contributions, covering a diversity of subject areas in atomic, molecular and optical physics. In their contribution, Stowe, Thorpe, Peer, Ye, Stalnaker, Gerginov, and Diddams explore recent developments in direct frequency comb spectroscopy. Precise phase coherence among successive ultrashort pulses of a frequency comb allows one to probe fast dynamics in the time domain and high-resolution structural information in the frequency domain for both atoms and molecules. The authors provide a detailed review of some of the current applications that exploit the unique features of frequency comb spectroscopy and discuss its future directions. Yurvsky, Olshanii and Weiss review theory and experiment of elongated atom traps that confine ultracold gases in a quasi-one-dimensional regime. Under certain conditions, these quasi-one-dimensional gases are well-described by integrable one-dimensional many-body models with exact quantum solutions. Thermodynamic and correlation properties of one such model that has been experimentally realized are reviewed. DePaola, Morgenstein and Andersen discuss magneto-optical trap recoil ion momentum spectroscopy (MOTRIMS), exploring collisions between a projectile and target resulting in charged target fragments. MOTRIMS combines the technology of laser cooling and trapping of target atoms with the momentum analysis of the charged fragments that recoil from the target.The authors review the different MOTRIMS experimental approaches and the spectroscopic and collisional investigations performed so far. Safronova and Johnson give an overview of atomic many-body perturbation theory and discuss why extensions of the theory are needed. They present all-order results based on a linearized version of coupled cluster expansions and apply the theory to calculations of energies, transition matrix elements and hyperfine constants.Another contribution on atomic theory, authored by Fischer, explores the advantages of expanding the atomic radial wave functions in a B-spline basis.The differential equations are replaced by non-linear systems of equations and the problems of orthogonality requirements can be dealt with using projection operators.Electron-ion collisional processes are analyzed by Mueller, including descriptions of the experimental techniques needed to obtain cross section data and typical values for these cross sections.The present status of the field is discussed in relation to the detailed cross sections and rate coefficients that are needed for understanding laboratory or astrophysical plasmas.Finally, Duan and Monroe review ways to achieve scalable and robust quantum communication, state engineering, and quantum computation. Using radiation and atoms, ions, or atomic ensembles, they show that they can construct scalable quantum networks that are inherently insensitive to noise. Progress in experimental realization of their proposals is outlined.

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Atomic Structure Theory is a textbook for students with a background in quantum mechanics. The text is designed to give hands-on experience with atomic structure calculations. Material covered includes angular momentum methods, the central field Schrödinger and Dirac equations, Hartree-Fock and Dirac-Hartree-Fock equations, multiplet structure, hyperfine structure, the isotope shift, dipole and multipole transitions, basic many-body perturbation theory, configuration interaction, and correlation corrections to matrix elements. Numerical methods for solving the Schrödinger and Dirac eigenvalue problems and the (Dirac)-Hartree-Fock equations are given as well. B-spline basis sets are used to carry out sums arising in higher-order many-body calculations. Illustrative problems are provided, together with solutions. FORTRAN programs implementing the numerical methods in the text are included.

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Molecular Processes in Plasmas describes elementary collision processes in plasmas, particularly those involving molecules or molecular ions. Those collision processes (called molecular processes) maintain plasmas, produce reactive species and emissions, and play a key role in energy balance in plasmas or more specifically in determining the energy distribution of plasma particles. Many books on plasma physics mention the elementary processes, but normally rather briefly. They only touch upon the general feature or fundamental concept of the collision processes. On the other hand, there are many books on atomic and molecular physics, but most of them are too general or too detailed to be useful to people in the application fields. The present book enumerates all the possible processes in the collisions of electrons, as well as ions, with molecules. For each process, a compact but informative description of its characteristics is given together with illustrative examples. Since the author has much experience as a practitioner in the field of atomic and molecular physics, the description is based on a thorough and up-to-date knowledge of the processes.

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The study of chaos is today one of the most active and prolific areas in atomic physics. This book describes the manifestations of chaos in atoms and molecules, and is an introduction to this fascinating area. The first part of the book deals with the theory and principles of classical chaos, which are then applied to actual atomic and molecular physics systems in the second part of the book. The book covers microwave-driven surface state electrons, the hydrogen atom in a strong microwave field, the kicked hydrogen atom, chaotic scattering with CsI molecules and the helium atom. The book contains many diagrams and a detailed reference list. ... Read more

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Lucid, pleasant introduction to the field
If you're an atomic physicist, or someone interested in quantum physics in general which might have a chaotic classical regime, this is a fantastic light treatment of the subject. I think it's written clearly enough, a first year graduate student shouldn't have much difficulty with it. Any Ph.D. in physics should be able to read it. It is a start to finish survey of the field as current in 1997.

It starts off with a decent explanation of chaos in classical mechanics, leading up to what is probably the best brief treatment of chaos in quantum mechanical (and wave mechanical) systems I have ever read. You won't become an expert in 'quantum chaos' from reading chapter 4, but you will be well informed in the subject. From there, the book goes on to treat the standard models and experimental systems; the kicked rotor, the microwave ionization of hydrogen (as pioneered by Jim Bayfield and Peter Koch). It ends up with a nice treatment of the helium atom. There are a few experimental odds and ends I would have put in this chapter (easy for me to say), dealing with experimental reasons chaos in helium may be unobservable, but that's probably a silly complaint on my part.

I didn't really understand why they put in the chapter on CdI scattering; I figure diamagnetic hydrogen is a more important and interesting quantum chaotic system -I'm guessing this is because the authors did some work with this system. No accounting for taste, I suppose.

There are things I'd like to see included in such a book; I think Joe Ford's late contributions to the field were very important. For example, I do not think the "Ford paradox" has been adequately thought through by anyone, and I think it is a very important question. It should be one of the great challenges of science; it touches on the very roots of quantum mechanics (and dynamics) in a clear and compelling way. Of course, only a few of my chums have even heard of the Ford paradox, so I probably can't complain too much that B & R don't think it is important enough to talk about. Future editions should probably also treat the Loschmidt Echo, as that seemed to be a fertile area of research as to characterization of quantum chaos around the time I left the field.

All in all, this is a great example of clear, witty scientific writing on a very interesting subject.

A good Summary, but not a good text book
This text is a very good summary of chaos in atomic and molecular physics. It starts by giving some examples in the first champter and then builds its way up from numerical chaos, classical chaos, and finally quantum chaos.Unfortunately, this material is relatively new and not part of the corecirriculum of most undergrade physics programs so most of the material isunfamiliar to most students. However, along with a book which goes more indepth to the fundementals of the subject it would make a fine text (but notalone). ... Read more

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Great book

This is a very good book in AMO.Very intelligible, nice flow, stuff comes naturally.. It's a classical text, but very well done.(I recommend Liboff for QM and introduction to AMO, and Bransden for good AMO).

Excellent Atomic and Molecular physics book
This book is excellent for a 1st year graduate course on Atomic and Molecular physics.The initial sections cover QM in as good and concise a manner as I've ever seen.The coverage of perturbation theory is also very clear.After that the book concentrates on Atomic and Molecular topics like fine structure, Hyperfine strucutre, Hartree-Fock, and a very nice section on Atomic collision physics.It's truly regrettable that this book is out of print.

a good book
here is a classic of a book. the contents are an exposition of the applied aspects of quantum mechanics. suitable for undergraduate/graduate text. a must have for any practising physicist. ... Read more