Precision Physics of Simple Atoms and Molecules


Book Description

This volume presents multidisciplinary treatments of important areas and new developments within precision physics. It concentrates on new topics and those not treated in the previous volumes about the precision physics of simple atoms, all published in LNP. For example, it concentrates on the proton structure and its effects on the energy levels, on simple molecules, on atoms somewhat more complicated than hydrogen (such as lithium), on exotic atoms and atoms with exotic nuclei.




Precision Physics of Simple Atoms and Molecules


Book Description

This volume presents multidisciplinary treatments of important areas and new developments within precision physics. It concentrates on new topics and those not treated in the previous volumes about the precision physics of simple atoms, all published in LNP. For example, it concentrates on the proton structure and its effects on the energy levels, on simple molecules, on atoms somewhat more complicated than hydrogen (such as lithium), on exotic atoms and atoms with exotic nuclei.




The Hydrogen Atom


Book Description

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.




Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems


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Recent progress with precision physics of simple atoms / S.G. Karshenboim, V.B. Smirnov -- Part I. The hydrogen atom: Coulomb green function and its applications in atomic theory / L.N. Labzowsky, D.A. Solovyev -- Part II. Muonic and exotic atoms and nuclear effects: Atomic cascade and precision physics with light muonic and hadronic atoms / T.S. Jensen, V.E. Markushin -- The structure of light nuclei and its effect on precise atomic measurements / J.L. Friar -- Deeply bound pionic states as an indicator of chiral symmetry restoration / T. Yamazaki -- Part III. Hydrogen-like ions: Virial relations for the dirac equation and their applications to calculations of hydrogen-like atoms / V.M. Shabaev -- Lamb shift experiments on high-Z one-electron systems / T. Stöhlker, D. Banaś, H. Beyer, A. Gumberidze -- Part IV. Testing quantum electrodynamics: Simple atoms, quantum electrodynamics, and fundamental constants / S.G. Karshenboim -- Resent results and current status of the muon (g-2) experiment at BNL / S.I. Redin [and others] -- Part V. Precision mearuements and fundamental constants: Single ion mass spectrometry at 100 ppt and beyond / S. Rainville, J.K. Thompson, D.E. Pritchard -- Current status of the problem of cosmological variability of fundamental physical constants / D.A. Varshalovich, A.V. IVANCHIK, A.V. Orlov, A.Y. Potekhin.







Relativistic Quantum Theory of Atoms and Molecules


Book Description

This book is intended for physicists and chemists who need to understand the theory of atomic and molecular structure and processes, and who wish to apply the theory to practical problems. As far as practicable, the book provides a self-contained account of the theory of relativistic atomic and molecular structure, based on the accepted formalism of bound-state Quantum Electrodynamics. The author was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1992.




Atoms, Molecules and Optical Physics 1


Book Description

This is the first volume of textbooks on atomic, molecular and optical physics, aiming at a comprehensive presentation of this highly productive branch of modern physics as an indispensable basis for many areas in physics and chemistry as well as in state of the art bio- and material-sciences. It primarily addresses advanced students (including PhD students), but in a number of selected subject areas the reader is lead up to the frontiers of present research. Thus even the active scientist is addressed. This volume 1 provides the canonical knowledge in atomic physics together with basics of modern spectroscopy. Starting from the fundamentals of quantum physics, the reader is familiarized in well structured chapters step by step with the most important phenomena, models and measuring techniques. The emphasis is always on the experiment and its interpretation, while the necessary theory is introduced from this perspective in a compact and occasionally somewhat heuristic manner, easy to follow even for beginners.










The Fundamentals of Atomic and Molecular Physics


Book Description

The Fundamentals of Atomic and Molecular Physics is intended as an introduction to the field for advanced undergraduates who have taken quantum mechanics. Each chapter builds upon the previous, using the same tools and methods throughout. As the students progress through the book, their ability to use these tools will steadily increase, along with their confidence in their efficacy. The book treats the two-electron atom as the simplest example of the many-electron atom—as opposed to using techniques that are not applicable to many-electron atoms—so that it is unnecessary to develop additional equations when turning to multielectron atoms, such as carbon. External fields are treated using both perturbation theory and direct diagonalization and spontaneous emission is developed from first principles. Only diatomic molecules are considered with the hydrogen molecular ion and neutral molecule treated in some detail. This comprehensive coverage of the quantum mechanics of complex atoms and simple diatomic molecules, developed from the very basic components, is extremely useful for students considering graduate studies in any area of physics.