原子及分子与光的相互作用——激光时代的原子物理(影印版)

Preface
Part I Atom-light interaction
1 The classical physics pathway
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Damped harmonic oscillator
1.3 The damped driven oscillator
1.4 The Bohr model
1.5 de Broglie waves
Appendix 1.A Damping force on an accelerating charge
Appendix 1.B Hanle effect
Appendix 1.C Optical tweezers
2 Interaction of two-level atoms and light
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Quantum mechanical view of driven optical transitions
2.3 Rabi oscillations
2.4 The dressed atom picture
2.5 The Bloch vector and Bloch sphere
Appendix 2.A Pauli matrices for motion of the Bloch vector
Appendix 2.B The Ramsey method
Appendix 2.C Echoes and interferometry
Appendix 2.D Adiabatic rapid passage
Appendix 2.E Superposition and entanglement
3 The atom-light interaction
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The three primary approximations
3.3 Light fields of finite spectral width
3.4 Oscillator strength
3.5 Selection rules
Appendix 3.A Proof of the oscillator strength theorem
Appendix 3.B Electromagnetic fields
Appendix 3.C The dipole approximation
Appendix 3.D Time resolved fluorescence from multilevel atoms
4 "Forbidden" transitions
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Extending the electric dipole approximation
4.3 Extending the perturbation approximation
Appendix 4.A Higher-order approximations
5 Spontaneous emission
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Einstein A- and B-coefficients
5.3 Discussion of this semi-classical description
5.4 The Wigner-Weisskopf model
Appendix 5.A The quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator
Appendix 5.B Field quantization
Appendix 5.C Alternative theories to QED
6 The density matrix
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Basic concepts
6.3 The optical Bloch equations
6.4 Power broadening and saturation
Appendix 6.A The Liouville-von Neumann equation
Part II Internal structure
7 The hydrogen atom
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Hamiltonian of hydrogen
7.3 Solving the angular part
7.4 Solving the radial part
7.5 The scale of atoms
7.6 Optical transitions in hydrogen
Appendix 7.A Center-of-mass motion
Appendix 7.B Coordinate systems
Appendix 7.C Commuting operators
Appendix 7.D Matrix elements of the radial wavefunctions
8 Fine structure
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The relativistic mass term
8.3 The fine-structure "spin-orbit" term
8.4 The Darwin term
8.5 Summary of fine structure
8.6 The Dirac equation
8.7 The Lamb shift
Appendix 8.A The Sommerfeld fine-structure constant
Appendix 8.B Measurements of the fine structure
9 Effects of the nucleus
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Motion,size,and shape of the nucleus
9.3 Nuclear magnetism - hyperfine structure
Appendix 9.A Interacting magnetic dipoles
Appendix 9.B Hyperfine structure for two spin- 1/2 particles
Appendix 9.C The hydrogen maser
10 The alkali-metal atoms
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Quantum defect theory
10.3 Non-penetrating orbits
10.4 Model potentials
10.5 Optical transitions in alkali-metal atoms
Appendix 10.A Quantum defects for the alkalis
Appendix 10.B Numerov method
11 Atoms in magnetic fields
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The Hamiltonian for the Zeeman effect
11.3 Zeeman shifts in the presence of the spin-orbit interaction
Appendix 11.A The ground state of atomic hydrogen
Appendix 11.B Positronium
Appendix 11.C The non-crossing theorem
Appendix 11.D Passage through an anti-crossing: Landau-Zener transitions
12 Atoms in electric fields
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Electric field shifts in spherical coordinates
12.3 Electric field shifts in parabolic coordinates
12.4 Summary
13 Rydherg atoms
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The Bohr model and quantum defects again
13.3 Rydberg atoms in external fields
13.4 Experimental description
13.5 Some results of Rydberg spectroscopy
14 The helium atom
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Symmetry
14.3 The Hamiltonian for helium
14.4 Variational methods
14.5 Doubly excited states
Appendix 14.A Variational calculations
Appendix 14.B Detail on the variational calculations of the ground state
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15 The periodic system of the elements
16 Molecules
17 Binding in the hydrogen molecule
18 Ultra-cold chemistry
Part III Applications
19 Optical forces and laser cooling
20 Confinement of neutral atoms
21 Bose-Einstein condensation
22 Cold molecules
23 Three-level systems
24 Fundamental physics
Part IV Appendix
Appendix A Notation and definitions
Appendix B Units and notation
Appendix C Angular momentum in quantum mechanics
Appendix D Transition strengths
References
Index