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The Hydrogen Atom

Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems

Editors:

  1. Savely G. Karshenboim

    1. D.I. Mendeleev Institute for Metrology, St. Petersburg, Russia
      MPI for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany

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  2. F. Bassani

    1. Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri, Pisa, Italy

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  3. F.S. Pavone

    1. Dept.of Physics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
      LENS and INFM, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  4. M. Inguscio

    1. Dept. of Physics and LENS, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  5. T.W. Hänsch

    1. MPI for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany

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  • Provides extensive compilation of new knowledge on simple atomic systems
  • The printed book contains tutorial reviews
  • A searchable CD-ROM provides more specialized contributions and historical work
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 570)

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Table of contents (59 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Introduction to Simple Atoms

    1. Introduction to Simple Atoms

      • Savely G. Karshenboim, Francesco S. Pavone
      Pages 1-14

  3. Hydrogen and Helium

    1. Precision Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen

      • F. Biraben, T. W. Hänsch, M. Fischer, M. Niering, R. Holzwarth, J. Reichert et al.
      Pages 17-41

    2. Ultracold Hydrogen

      • Lorenz Willmann, Daniel Kleppner
      Pages 42-56

  4. Positronium and Muonium

    1. Spectroscopy of the Muonium Atom

      • Klaus-Peter Jungmann
      Pages 81-102

    2. Experimental Tests of QED in Positronium: Recent Advances

      • Ralph S. Conti, Richard S. Vallery, David W. Gidley, Jason J. Engbrecht, Mark Skalsey, Paul W. Zitzewitz
      Pages 103-121

  5. Fundamental Constants and Frequency Metrology

    1. A New Type of Frequency Chain and Its Application to Fundamental Frequency Metrology

      • Thomas Udem, Jörg Reichert, Ronald Holzwarth, Scott Diddams, David Jones, Jun Ye et al.
      Pages 125-144

    2. Fundamental Constants and the Hydrogen Atom

      • Peter J. Mohr, Barry N. Taylor
      Pages 145-156

    3. Present Status of g — 2 of Electron and Muon

      • Toichiro Kinoshita
      Pages 157-175

  6. Few-Electron Highly-Charged Ions

    2. The g Factor of Hydrogenic Ions: A Test of Bound State QED

      • G. Werth, H. Häffner, N. Hermanspahn, H.-J. Kluge, W. Quint, J. Verdú
      Pages 204-220

  7. Exotic Atoms

    1. Elementary Relativistic Atoms

      • Leonid Nemenov
      Pages 223-245

    2. Antiprotonic Helium — An Exotic Hydrogenic Atom

      • Toshimitsu Yamazaki
      Pages 246-265

  8. Hydrogen and Helium

    1. Towards a Precise Measurement of the He+ 2S Lamb Shift

      • S. A. Burrows, S. Guérandel, E. A. Hinds, F. Lison, M. G. Boshier
      Pages 303-313

    2. High Precision Measurements on Helium at 1083 nm

      • Pablo Cancio Pastor, Paolo De Natale, Giovanni Giusfredi, Francesco S. Pavone, Massimo Inguscio
      Pages 314-327

    3. Absolute Frequency Measurement of the 1S-3S Transition in Hydrogen

      • Gaëtan Hagel, Rémy Battesti, Catherine Schwob, Francois Nez, Lucile Julien, Francois Biraben et al.
      Pages 328-334

    4. 2s Hyperfine Structure in Hydrogen Atom and Helium-3 Ion

      • Savely G. Karshenboim
      Pages 335-343

    5. Three-Loop Slope of the Dirac Form Factor and the 1S Lamb Shift in Hydrogen

      • Kirill Melnikov, Timo van Ritbergen
      Pages 344-351

    6. Radiative Decay of Coupled States in an External dc Field

      • Vitaly Pal’chikov, Yuri Sokolov, Valery Yakovlev
      Pages 352-355
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About this book

For more than a century, studies of atomic hydrogen have been a rich source of scientific discoveries. These began with the Balmer series in 1885 and the early quantum theories of the atom, and later included the development of QED and the first successful gauge field theory. Today, hydrogen and its relatives continue to provide new fundamental information, as witnessed by the contributions to this book. The printed volume contains invited reviews on the spectroscopy of hydrogen, muonium, positronium, few-electron ions and exotic atoms, together with related topics such as frequency metrology and the determination of fundamental constants. The accompanying CD contains, in addition to these reviews, a further 40 contributed papers also presented at the conference "Hydrogen Atom 2" held in summer 2000. Finally, to facilitate a historical comparison, the CD also contains the proceedings of the first "Hydrogen Atom" conference of 1988. The book includes a foreword by Norman F. Ramsey.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • D.I. Mendeleev Institute for Metrology, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Savely G. Karshenboim

  • MPI for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany

    Savely G. Karshenboim, T.W. Hänsch

  • Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri, Pisa, Italy

    F. Bassani

  • Dept.of Physics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    F.S. Pavone

  • LENS and INFM, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    F.S. Pavone

  • Dept. of Physics and LENS, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    M. Inguscio

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Hydrogen Atom

  • Book Subtitle: Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems

  • Editors: Savely G. Karshenboim, F. Bassani, F.S. Pavone, M. Inguscio, T.W. Hänsch

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45395-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-14340-7Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-45395-6Published: 03 December 2007

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8450

  • Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 296

  • Topics: Quantum Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics

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