Overview
- Written by the author of the widely acclaimed textbook Theoretical Atomic Physics
- Includes sections on near-threshold quantization and scattering, quantum reflection, tunable Feshbach resonances
- Useful for advanced students and researchers
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 872)
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About this book
This book presents a concise and modern coverage of scattering theory. It is motivated by the fact that experimental advances have shifted and broadened the scope of applications where concepts from scattering theory are used, e.g. to the field of ultracold atoms and molecules, which has been experiencing enormous growth in recent years, largely triggered by the successful realization of Bose-Einstein condensates of dilute atomic gases in 1995.
In the present treatment, special attention is given to the role played by the long-range behaviour of the projectile-target interaction, and a theory is developed, which is well suited to describe near-threshold bound and continuum states in realistic binary systems such as diatomic molecules or molecular ions.
The level of abstraction is kept as low as at all possible, and deeper questions related to mathematical foundations of scattering theory are passed by. The book should be understandable for anyone with a basic knowledge of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. It is intended for advanced students and researchers, and it is hoped that it will be useful for theorists and experimentalists alike.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scattering Theory
Authors: Harald Friedrich
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38282-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-38282-6Published: 12 June 2013
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 287
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Low Temperature Physics