Atom-Photon Interactions: Basic Processes and Applications (Wiley Science Paperback Series)

✍ Scribed by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jacques Dupont-Roc, Gilbert Grynberg

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 677
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Atom-Photon Interactions: Basic Processes and Applications allows the reader to master various aspects of the physics of the interaction between light and matter. It is devoted to the study of the interactions between photons and atoms in atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics, and laser physics. The elementary processes in which photons are emitted, absorbed, scattered, or exchanged between atoms are treated in detail and described using diagrammatic representation. The book presents different theoretical approaches, including: Perturbative methods The resolvent method Use of the master equation The Langevin equation The optical Bloch equations The dressed-atom approachEach method is presented in a self-contained manner so that it may be studied independently. Many applications of these approaches to simple and important physical phenomena are given to illustrate the potential and limitations of each method.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 20
Introduction......Page 22
I Transition Amplitudes in Electrodynamics......Page 26
II A Survey of Some Interaction Processes between Photons and Atoms......Page 88
III Nonperturbative Calculation of Transition Amplitudes......Page 186
IV Radiation Considered as a Reservoir: Master Equation for the Particles......Page 278
V Optical Bloch Equations......Page 374
VI The Dressed Atom Approach......Page 428
Appendix Quantum Electrodynamics in the Coulomb Gauge-Summary of the Essential Results......Page 642
References......Page 662
Index......Page 666

✦ Subjects

Физика;Квантовая физика;Квантовая оптика;