This book is an in-depth review of experiment and theory on electric-dipole polarizabilities. It is broad in scope, encompassing atomic, molecular, and cluster polarizabilities. Both static and dynamic polarizabilities are treated (in the absence of absorption) and a full tensor…
This work provides a necessary overview of the quantum description of electromagnetic field in order to understand the various physical processes associated with those photon-atom interactions appearing in atom and molecular physics, quantum optics and laser physics.
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CD-ROM contains: Reviews printed in text -- 40 contributed papers also presented at the conference "Hydrogen Atom 2" held in summer 2000 -- Proceedings of first "Hydrogen Atom" conference held in 1988.
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This book provides a thorough introduction to the interaction of atoms and atomic ions with optical and magnetic fields. Particular emphasis is placed on multilevel effects, where more than two atomic states participate in the interaction. Atomic vapours can exhibit anisotropic …
