Atomic Physics

• Based on extensive teaching experience, class-tested.
• Written for undergraduates.
• Leads students up to the frontiers of latest research.
• Includes recent advances in Bose-Einstein condensation which have also excited interest outside the field.
• Contains many exercises, suitable for use in class.

Readership: Aimed at fourth year undergraduate students and first year graduate students in physics.

C.J. Foot, Department of Physics, University of Oxford

"This is a very timely book. The author has chosen a very modern set of topics, ones that increasingly are at the heart of the field of atomic and optical physics... I am aware of no competing textbook that offers this wide selection of topics at the cutting edge of this discipline." - Chris Greene, University of Colorado, Boulder

"...a useful text on atomic physics and fills something of a gap between traditional textbooks and highly specialised books on the more modern topics." - Charles Adams, University of Durham

"The approach to the modern topics, in particular the many connections to the classical developments of the field is masterly done." - Klaus Molmer, University of Aarhus

1: Early Atomic Physics
2: The Hydrogen Atom
3: Helium
4: The Alkalis
5: The LS-coupling scheme
6: Hyperfine Structure and Isotope Shift
7: The Interaction of Atoms with Radiation
8: Doppler-free Laser Spectroscopy
9: Laser cooling and trapping
10: Magnetic trapping, Evaporative cooling and BEC
11: Atom Interferometry
12: Ion Traps
13: Quantum Computing