Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

1st Edition - July 19, 2006

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  • Editors: Gerhard Rempe, Marlan Scully
  • eBook ISBN: 9780080462547

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Description

This volume of Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics celebrates and honors the work and life of Professor Herbert Walther. Areas of emphasis include quantum optics, in general, and BEC, atomic coherence, quantum interference, etc. in particular.

Key Features

  • Pulls vast amount of information together in cohesive, easy to understand manner
  • Written by people who know and are familiar with Herbert Walther's work
  • Comprehensive articles
  • New developments

Readership

Libraries, Graduate Students and Researchers.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
    Non-Classical Light From Artificial Atoms (T. Aichele, M. Scholz, S. Ramelow and O. Benson)
    Quantum Chaos, Transport and Control – in quantum optics (J. Madroñero, A. Ponomarev, A.R.R. Carvalho, S. Wimberger, C. Viviescas, A. Kolovsky, K. Hornberger, P. Schlagheck, A. Krug and A. Buchleitner)
    Manipulating Single Atoms (D. Meschede and A. Rauschenbeutel)
    Spatial Imaging with Wavefront Coding and Optical Coherence Tomography (T. Hellmuth)
    The Quantum Properties of Multimode Optical Amplifiers Revisited (G. Leuchs, U.L. Andersen and C. Fabre)
    Quantum Optics of Ultra-Cold Molecules (D. Meiser, T. Miyakawa, H. Uys and P. Meystre)
    Atom Manipulation in Optical Lattices (G. Raithel and N. Morrow)
    Femtosecond Laser Interaction with Solid Surfaces: Explosive Ablation and Self-Assembly of Ordered Nanostructures (J. Reif)
    Characterization of Single Photons Using Two-Photon Interference (T. Legero, T. Wilk, A. Kuhn and G. Rempe)
    Fluctuations in Ideal and Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates: From the Laser Phase Transition Analogy to Squeezed States and Bogoliubov Quasiparticles (V.V. Kocharovsky, V.V. Kocharovsky, M. Holthaus, C.H. Raymond Ooi, A. Svidzinsky, W. Ketterle and M.O. Scully)
    LIDAR-Monitoring of the Air with Femtosecond Plasma Channels (L. Wöste, S. Frey and J-P. Wolf)
    Index
    Contents of Volumes in this Serial

Product details

  • No. of pages: 484
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Academic Press 2006
  • Published: July 19, 2006
  • Imprint: Academic Press
  • eBook ISBN: 9780080462547

About the Serial Volume Editors

Gerhard Rempe

Professor Rempe conducts experiments in the research fields of atom interferometry, Bose-Einstein condensation, cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum information processing, and, most recently, cold dipolar molecules.

Affiliations and Expertise

Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany.

Marlan Scully

Professor Scully works in the area of theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physics. His current interests include quantum coherence, Bose Einstein condensation, quantum informatics, and foundations of quantum mechanics.

Affiliations and Expertise

Texas A&M University, Institute for Quantum Physics, College Station, U.S.A.

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