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Module 1: Atomic and molecular physics, 10 lectures, Ben Sauer Collision physics at low temperature, 4 lectures, Misha Ivanov Module 2: Laser cooling and trapping of neutrals, 8 lectures, Ed Hinds Cold molecules, 7 lectures, Mike Tarbutt. Atomic and molecular physics.
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Module 1: Atomic and molecular physics, 10 lectures, Ben Sauer Collision physics at low temperature, 4 lectures, MishaIvanov Module 2: Laser cooling and trapping of neutrals, 8 lectures, Ed Hinds Cold molecules, 7 lectures, Mike Tarbutt
Atomic and molecular physics • Review of hydrogen • gross structure • fine structure and perturbation theory • hyperfine structure • Structure of helium • central fields • direct and exchange integrals • Angular momentum • symmetry and transformation • rotations and angular momentum • addition of angular momentum • spherical tensors and Wigner-Eckart theorem • transitions
Why bother? Rb: a two level atom Doppler broadened Doppler free
Textbooks David J. Griffiths, Introduction to quantum mechanics, 2nd edition, 2005. Cohen-Tannoudji, Die, Laloë, Quantum mechanics (2 volumes, 1500 pages) Sakurai, Modern quantum mechanics Merzbacher, Quantum mechanics Woodgate, Elementary atomic structure Zare, Angular momentum Edmonds, Angular momentum in quantum mechanics Weissbluth, Atoms and molecules