Modern Atomic Physics

Introduction to Atomic Physics Metrology Atomic Units Classical Harmonic Oscillator Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Quantized Radiation Quantized Oscillating Charge - Oscillations, Spontaneous Decay Atoms Spectroscopic Notation Energy Levels of One-Electron Atoms Magnetic Interactions Atoms in Static Electric Fields Permanent Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) Atoms in Oscillatory Fields Manifestation of Nucleus Isotope Effects Hyperfine Structure Multipole Moments of Nucleus Two Level Systems - Resonance Introduction and Classical Analysis Magnetic Resonance Resonance of Quantized Systems/Spin Separated Oscillatory Fields Density Matrix Formalism Resonance Behaviour of Realistic Two Level Systems Interaction of EM Radiation with Atoms - One Photon The Interaction Selection Rules Transition Probabilities Einstein A and B Coefficients Rates of Transition - Order of Magnitude, Saturation Multi-Photon Processes Two-Photon Absorption Raman Scattering Higher-Order Nonlinear Processes Line Shapes Homogeneous versus Inhomogeneous Broadening Lorentzian Line Shape Line Shapes of Molecules in a Gas - Gaussian, Voigt Line Shapes of Confined Particle - Dicke Narrowing, Recoilless Emission Laser Spectroscopy in Gases Doppler-Free Saturation Spectroscopy - Absorption, Polarization Crossover Resonances and Their Elimination Multi-Photon Doppler-Free Photon Recoil Magneto Optic Rotation (MOR) - Faraday Effect, Nonlinear MOR Coherent Control Spectroscopy in Multilevel Atoms Coherent Population Trapping (CPT) Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) Electromagnetically Induced Absorption (EIA) Role of Dressed-State Interference Polarization Rotation Spectroscopy Coherent Control of MOR Laser Cooling and Trapping Light Forces on Atoms Doppler and Polarization-Gradient Cooling Subrecoil Cooling Evaporative Cooling in a Trap Magneto-Optic Trap (MOT) Magnetic Trap Optical Dipole Trap and Optical Tweezers Bose-Einstein Condensation Ion Traps - Paul and Penning Appendices What Is a Photon? 1997 Nobel Prize on Laser Cooling 2001 Nobel Prize on Bose-Einstein Condensation 2005 Nobel Prize in Optics 2009 Nobel Prize for Development of CCD Camera 2012 Nobel Prize for Quantum Manipulation at the Single-Particle Level