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Theoretical Atomic Physics

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Harald Friedrich

    1. Physics Department T30, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

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  • Covers up to date topics
  • Approx. 50 problems and solutions
  • Unrivaled, comprehensive course, bridging Quantum Physics and Atomic Phyiscs
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Review of Quantum Mechanics

    Pages 1-84

  3. Atoms and Ions

    Pages 85-143

  4. Atomic Spectra

    Pages 145-241

  5. Simple Reactions

    Pages 243-323

  6. Special Topics

    Pages 325-437

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 439-506
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level, and a good understanding of the links to classical mechanics is almost always helpful. The aim ofTheoretical Atomic Physics remains to provide the reader with a solid foundation of this sort of advanced quantum mechanics. In preparing the third edition I have again tried to do justice to the rapid development of the ?eld. I have included references to important new work whenever this seemed appropriate and easy to do. Chapter 1 now includes a section on processes involving (wave packets of) continuum states and also an expanded treatment of the semiclassical approximation. Chapter 3 begins with a section illuminating the characteristic di?erences in the near-threshold properties of long-ranged and shorter-ranged potentials, and the ?rst section of Chap. 4 contains a more elaborate discussion of scattering lengths. As a further “special topic” in Chap. 5 there is a section describing some aspects of atom optics, including discusions of the interactions of atoms with material surfacesandwithlight?elds. Theappendixonspecialmathematicalfunctions has been slightly expanded to accommodate a few results that I repeatedly found to be useful. I am grateful to many colleagues who continue to inspire me with num- ous discussions involving atomic physics, quantum mechanics and semiclas- cal connections, in particular Robin Cot ˆ ´ e at the University of Connecticut, Manfred Kleber at the Technical University Munich and Jan-Michael Rost at the Max–Planck–Institute for Complex Systems in Dresden.

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  • Physics Department T30, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

    Harald Friedrich

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