Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (eBook)

Ennio Arimondo, Paul R. Berman, Chun C. Lin (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
368 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-088027-3 (ISBN)

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This volume continues the tradition of the Advances series. It contains contributions from experts in the field of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics. The articles contain some review material, but are intended to provide a comprehensive picture of recent important developments in AMO physics. Both theoretical and experimental articles are included in the volume.

. International experts
. Comprehensive articles
. New developments

Inhalt

Front cover 1
Half title 2
Editors 3
Title 4
Copyright 5
Contents 6
Contributors 10
Chapter 1. Ionizing Collisions by Positrons and Positronium Impact on the Inert Atoms 12
Introduction 13
Ion Production by Positron Impact 15
Experimental Methods for Integral Cross-Sections 17
Total Ionization Cross-Sections 20
Direct Ionization 21
Positronium Formation 32
Positronium Ionizing Collisions 38
Background 38
Experimental Methods 42
Results 43
Conclusions and Outlook 47
Acknowledgments 49
References 50
Chapter 2. Interactions Between Thermal Ground or Excited Atoms in the Vapor Phase: Many-Body Dipole--Dipole Effects, Molecular Dissociation, and Photoassociation Probed By Laser Spectroscopy 60
Introduction 62
Detection of Quantum Beating in Atoms and Molecules by Wavepacket Interferometry and a Coherent Nonlinear Optical Process 65
Historical Background, Wavepacket Detection 65
Brief Review of Theory 68
Experimental Arrangement and Data Acquisition 70
Rb Wavepackets: Quantum Beating at 2--18.2 THz 74
Na 5s--4d5 / 2 Quantum Beating at 1348 cm-1 (40.41 THz) 80
PFWM and PSWM in Other Atoms and Molecules 80
Many-Body, Dipole--Dipole Interactions Among Excited Alkali Atoms 81
Introductory Comments 81
Estimates of Many-Body Interaction Energies 82
Experimental Results: Sideband Splittings Observed in the Fourier and Temporal Domains 85
Impact of the Pair Distribution Function 92
Observation of Molecular Dissociation and Nascent Product State Distributions by the Dipole--Dipole Interaction 93
Introduction 93
Electronic Structure and Predissociation of Rb2: Generation of Excited Atomic Fragments 95
Molecular Dissociation Transients, Atomic Product State Distributions 96
Diffusion Description of Amplitude Transients 101
Dominant Rb2 Predissociation Channels 104
Coherent Control of R b 2 Predissociation 106
Photoassociation of Rare-Gas--Halogen Atomic Pairs at Ambient Temperature 111
Introduction, Stationary Phase Approximation 111
Theoretical Considerations 114
Simulations and Derived Xenon Monoiodide Spectroscopic Constants 117
Application of Photoassociation to High Intensity Discharge Lighting 121
Summary and Conclusions 122
Acknowledgments 125
References 125
Chapter 3. Bose--Einstein Condensates in Disordered Potentials 130
Introduction 130
How to Produce a Disordered Potential 132
Speckle Patterns 132
Multi-chromatic Lattices 135
Other Methods 137
Weakly-interacting Regime 138
A Bose--Einstein Condensate in a Disordered Potential 141
The Quest for Anderson Localization 144
Further Directions 152
Observing Anderson Localization 155
Strongly-interacting Regime 156
The Quest for Bose Glass 159
Experiments with Atomic Mixtures 163
Conclusions 165
Acknowledgments 165
References 166
Chapter 4. Dipole--Dipole Interactions of Rydberg Atoms 172
Introduction 173
Principles of Resonant Dipole--Dipole Collisions 177
Dipole Transitions in Rydberg Atoms 177
Dipole--Dipole Interactions 179
Verification of the Predictions 185
Manipulating Resonant Collisions 192
Dipole--dipole Interactions in the Frozen Rydberg Gas 200
Line Broadening and Blockades 209
Mechanical Effects 215
Conclusion 226
Acknowledgments 227
References 227
Chapter 5. Strong-Field Control of X-Ray Processes 230
Motivation 231
Basic concepts 233
Basic X-Ray Processes 233
Strong-Field Laser Physics 235
Theoretical aspects 238
Strong-Field Ionization 238
Laser Dressing 243
Laser-Induced Molecular Alignment 247
General experimental considerations 251
Case studies 253
Orbital Alignment in Strong-Field Ionization 253
Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency 258
Laser-Induced Molecular Alignment 262
Summary and outlook 264
Acknowledgments 266
References 266
Chapter 6. Optical Trapping Takes Shape: The Use of Structured Light Fields 272
Introduction 273
Single beam optical tweezers 275
Optical Tweezers: Theoretical Treatment of Trapping Forces 275
Design Considerations of an Optical Tweezers System 278
Other Incarnations of Optical Trapping 283
Applications within biophysics and the colloidal sciences 285
Molecular and Cell Biology 286
Examples of Studies of Colloidal Systems with Single Beam Optical Tweezers 292
Optical trapping with structured light fields and its applications 293
Structured Light Fields 293
Large Arrays of Optical Traps 295
Non-zero Order Laser Modes 314
Optical binding 334
Conclusions 335
Acknowledgments 336
References 336
Index 350

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Analytische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-088027-4 / 0080880274
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-088027-3 / 9780080880273