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By Phillip L Gould, Winthrop W Smith, Robin Cote

This certain ebook highlights the cutting-edge of the booming box of atomic physics within the early twenty first century. It includes nearly all of the invited papers from an ongoing sequence of meetings, held each years, dedicated to vanguard learn and basic experiences in easy atomic physics, extensively outlined. This convention, held on the collage of Connecticut in July 2008, is a part of a sequence of meetings, which begun in 1968 and had its ancient origins within the molecular beam meetings of the I. I. Rabi workforce. It presents an archival and up to date precis of present examine on atoms and straightforward molecules in addition to their interactions with one another and with exterior fields, together with degenerate Bose and Fermi quantum gases and interactions regarding ultrafast lasers, robust box regulate of X-ray approaches, and nanoscale and mesoscopic quantum structures. The paintings of 3 contemporary Nobel Laureates in atomic physics is integrated, starting with a lecture by way of Eric Cornell on “When Is a Quantum gasoline a Quantum Liquid?”. There also are papers through Laureates Steven Chu and Roy Glauber. the amount additionally includes the IUPAP younger Scientist Prize lecture by means of Cheng Chin on “Exploring Universality of Few-Body Physics in line with Ultracold Atoms close to Feshbach Resonances”.

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5), but these are sufficiently straightforward that there is no need to detail them explicitly. Suffice it to say that repeating the steps we have gone through in Sections 2 and 3 leads to a set of coupled equations relating the vector excitation amplitudes βj = βj (t) exp[i(ω0 + δω0 − δωg )t]. 3) j±i in which each of the matrix elements Sij must be regarded as a dyadic Sij = − i γ λik λ∗jk k − k0 − i k + λ∗ik λjk k + k0 . 4) When the vector coupling coefficients of Eq. 2) are inserted in this expression it preserves much of the same form as the integral in Eq.

If one of the atoms is raised to an excited state and radiates a single quantum in returning to its ground state, the other unexcited atoms nearby will have a resonantly large probability of absorbing the quantum and then reradiating it, a cycle which may be repeated in many ways indefinitely many times. Radiation by the atomic system is thus a collective process. The single quantum is radiated not by any one atom but cooperatively by the full collection. We shall show that this process is best described by introducing certain collective excitation modes for the atomic system, which lead to exponential decay with a range of different lifetimes.

G. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 030802 (2006); ibid. 99, 039902 (2007). February 16, 2009 14:30 WSPC - Proceedings Trim Size: 9in x 6in icap2008 46 MORE ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF THE ELECTRON MAGNETIC MOMENT AND THE FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANT D. HANNEKE, S. FOGWELL, N. GUISE, J. DORR and G. 7 and 15 times smaller than for previous measurements in 2006 and 1987. The electron is used as a magnetometer to allow lineshape statistics to accumulate, and its spontaneous emission rate determines the correction for its interaction with a cylindrical trap cavity.

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