Theoretical Atomic Physics

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Atomic physics is a pioneering discipline at the forefront of theoretical and experimental physics. It has played a major role in advancing our understanding of chaotic systems. The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for progress in cooling atoms to extremely low temperatures. This new edition of Theoretical Atomic Physics takes into account recent developments and includes sections on semiclassical periodic orbit theory, scaling properties for atoms in external fields, threshold behaviour of ionization cross sections, classical and quantum dynamics of two-electron atoms, and Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases. Moreover, for students there are 48 problems with complete solutions which makes this course the most thorough introduction to the field available.
Atomic physics is a pioneering discipline at the forefront of theoretical and experimental physics. It has played a major role in advancing our understanding of chaotic systems. The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for progress in cooling atoms to extremely low temperatures. This new edition of Theoretical Atomic Physics takes into account recent developments and includes sections on semiclassical periodic orbit theory, scaling properties for atoms in external fields, threshold behaviour of ionization cross sections, classical and quantum dynamics of two-electron atoms, and Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases. Moreover, for students there are 48 problems with complete solutions which makes this course the most thorough introduction to the field available.

Nobel Prize winning discipline

Course was updated and enlarged

48 problems with complete solutions

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Harald Siegfried Friedrich

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"Das Buch kombiniert tiefes pädagogisches Einfühlungsvermögen mit maximaler Stoffvermittlung. Es ist für Studium und Forscher gleichermaßen geeignet. Kompromißlos wird der Leser von den Anfangsgründen der Quantenmechanik bis zu den aktuellsten Problemen der Atomphysik geführt: Quantenchaos und Bose-Einstein-Kondensation. Es spricht für das pädagogische Geschick des Autors, daß dabei praktisch kein Vorwissen vorausgesetzt wird. Das Buch bildet eine geschlossene Einheit und ist daher auch zum Selbststudium hervorragend geeignet. ...Insgesamt eine äußerst moderne Darstellung der Atomphysik, die einen neuen Standard gesetzt hat."
(Physikalische Blätter 55/1999)
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