Editors:
- An indispensable resource with unparalleled coverage in a single volume, carefully edited to ensure uniformity of coverage and style
- Each chapter provides a summary of key ideas, techniques, and results, incl. diagrams of apparatus, graphs, and tables of data
- Includes contributions from over 100 leading experts, from atomic spectroscopy to applications to comets and global change
- Provides a unique starting point for research, with a comprehensive index, whilst also acting as a guide to the literature for further reading
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Table of contents (91 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This handbook comprises a comprehensive reference source that unifies the entire fields of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics, assembling the principal ideas, techniques and results of the field from atomic spectroscopy to applications to comets and global change. Its 91 chapters are written by over 100 authors, all leaders in their respective disciplines.
Carefully edited to ensure a uniform coverage and style and with extensive cross references, together with a guide to the primary research literature, it is both a source of information and an inspiration for graduate students and other researchers new to the field. All chapters offer diagrams of apparatus, graphs, and tables of data.
Twenty-seven years on since the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Handbook was first published, and sixteen years since the publication of the revised Springer edition, the Springer AMO Physics Handbook has become a standard reference in the field, and a starting point for generations of graduate students. In recent years, there have been dramatic advances in many areas of AMO physics involving both fundamental changes and new applications in areas such as quantum information, ultracold atoms, and searches for dark matter. This new edition contains an expanded coverage of these rapidly emerging fields.
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. of Physics, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Gordon W. F. Drake
About the editor
Gordon W.F. Drake, FRSC, is a University Professor of Physics at the University of Windsor, Canada, and Principal of Canterbury College affiliated with the University of Windsor. He is a past Chair of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP), the IUPAP Commission C15, and is a past President of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). He continued to serve on the Executive of the CAP as Director, International Affairs, and Chair of the Canadian National IUPAP Liaison Committee until 2014.
He received his B.Sc. degree from McGill University, 1964, M.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario, 1965, and Ph.D. from York University, 1967, followed by a postdoctoral position at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1967-69).
He has published 230 refereed research papers, and is widely cited for his high precision calculations for two and three-electron atoms, including relativistic and quantum electrodynamic effects. He has received numerous prizes and awards for his work, including a Killam Fellowship (1990-92), the Canadian Association of Physicists Medal for Achievement in Physics (1994), the Windsor Alumnni Teaching Award (2003), and the Peter Kirkby Memorial Medal for Outstanding Service to Canadian Physics (2015).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Springer Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Editors: Gordon W. F. Drake
Series Title: Springer Handbooks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73893-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73892-1Published: 17 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73893-8Published: 09 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2522-8692
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8706
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: LXX, 1415
Number of Illustrations: 200 illustrations in colour
Topics: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Physics, Quantum Optics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics