Atom-Photon Interactions: Basic Processes and Applications

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

Book Overview

Eine Zusammenstellung verschiedener theoretischer Ans?tze zur Beschreibung der physikalischen Ph?nomene, die aus der Wechselwirkung zwischen Atom und Photon erwachsen. Das enthaltene Material, beispielsweise zu St?rungsmethoden, aufgel?sten Methoden, der Langevin-Gleichung und optischen Bloch-Methoden, wurde bislang nur in Originalarbeiten und speziellen Monographien ver?ffentlicht. (06/98)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471293369
• ISBN13: 9780471293361
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Wiley-Vch
• Length: 678 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

One of the best books

This is one of the best books in the field of QED. I used it for self-study. Only downside (also upside) about it is that everything is explained so completely that the reaser might become a bit lazy at times to spend some intellectual effort. An excellent book for self-study.

Very useful

Atom Photon Interactions is an excellent text for atomic and optical physics. I refer back to the review material---transition amplitudes, quantum electrodynamic fundamentals, etc--- over and over again. Naturally, these sections are very brief, and the book works best along side Cohen-Tannoudji's more elementary texts Quantum Mechanics and Photons and Atoms, or their equivalents. The later chapters are rich in techniques and intuition applicable to atom-trapping, spectroscopy, laser theory, etc. Cohen-Tannoudji covers a lot of material, and manages to link it all to a few basic fundamental principles. The book is extremely well-organized, with bite-sized sections and appendices to each chapter. An excellent collection of exercises with solutions is included in the back. Unfortunately, the text does not prompt the reader to try working these problems at appropriate times (sadly, I didn't realize the exercises were there until I'd been using the book for some time). Like Photons and Atoms, this is primarily a book for theorists; its one weakness, I feel, is that the principles, however clear, never seem connected to the actual numbers that an experimentalist or system designer can relate to.