Atomic and molecular physics

Light awakens a child's curious self.

Although used with increasing frequency in many branches of physics, random matrix ensembles are not always sufficiently specific to account for important features of the physical system at hand.

Over the last decade, astrophysical observations of neutron stars - both as isolated and binary sources - have paved the way for a deeper understanding of the structure and dynamics of matter beyond nuclear saturation density.

This proceedings volume includes 66 papers on the latest developments in heavy ion collisions, the synthesis of new elements and nuclei far from stability, nuclear structure, physics with radioactive beams, and applications of heavy ion beams.

Una breve pero «dinámica» historia de la energía y del calor, una interesante manera de aprender la evolución de las ideas acerca de la temperatura, cómo entendemos el mundo que nos rodea, la interrelación entre filosofía, ciencia y política…Todo eso y mucho es Átomos, elementos, calor.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the history and development of power reactors worldwide, from their inception to the present day.

Progress in Optics, Volume 68 highlights new advances in the field of optics, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics in the field.

Spectroscopic techniques form the largest and most important single group of techniques used in chemistry.

"e;French Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is second to none in his understanding of the modern theory and application of atom-photon interactions.

This text describes a comprehensive adjoint sensitivity analysis methodology (C-ASAM), developed by the author, enabling the efficient and exact computation of arbitrarily high-order functional derivatives of model responses to model parameters in large-scale systems.

Progress in Optics, Volume 68 highlights new advances in the field of optics, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics in the field.

This thesis proposes a novel way to catch light energy using an ultrasmall nanostructure.

This book explores novel computational strategies for simulating excess energy dissipation alongside transient structural changes in photoexcited molecules, and accompanying solvent rearrangements.

This book is a compilation of different methods of formulating and solving inverse problems in physics from classical mechanics to the potentials and nucleus-nucleus scattering.

The purpose of this book is two fold.

The Handbook of Nuclear Engineering is an authoritative compilation of information regarding methods and data used in all phases of nuclear engineering.

This updated edition is designed as a self-teaching, calculus-based introduction to the concepts of physics.

This book provides a detailed description of the modern variational methods available for solving the nuclear motion Schrodinger equation to enable accurate theoretical spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules.

This book provides a detailed description of the modern variational methods available for solving the nuclear motion Schrodinger equation to enable accurate theoretical spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules.

The purpose of Encyclopaedia of Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure is to provide teachers with recent researches that allows students to share.

The purpose of Encyclopaedia of Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure is to provide teachers with recent researches that allows students to share.

Spectroscopic techniques form the largest and most important single group of techniques used in chemistry.

Are you afraid of a nuclear reactor accident?

This monograph shares a newly emerging point of view among researchers and students in the field of materials science.

In 1905, Albert Einstein declared speeds greater than light to be impossible.

In 1905, Albert Einstein declared speeds greater than light to be impossible.

This book provides advanced students and postdocs, as well as current practitioners of any field of nuclear physics involving fission an understanding of the nuclear fission process.

The nuclear shell model has had much success when describing nuclear structure.

This book offers a concise and coherent introduction to accelerator physics and technology at the fundamental level but still in connection to advanced applications ranging from high-energy colliders to most advanced light sources, i.

This book reviews the critical scope of nuclear materials, which play an essential role in decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Superatoms are a growing topic of interest in nanoscience, bringing the physics of electronic structure together with the chemistry of atomically precise clusters.

Superatoms are a growing topic of interest in nanoscience, bringing the physics of electronic structure together with the chemistry of atomically precise clusters.

This book introduces you to the physics of cosmic rays, charged particles which reach us from known - and maybe unknown - sources in the cosmos.

This book introduces you to the physics of cosmic rays, charged particles which reach us from known - and maybe unknown - sources in the cosmos.

During the last two decades the experimental investigation of atomic coherence phenomena has made rapid progress.

This book is about several questions regarding how to describe the quantization of the current density in an antenna and about the nature of the quantum electromagnetic field produced by such a quantum current density.

This book is about several questions regarding how to describe the quantization of the current density in an antenna and about the nature of the quantum electromagnetic field produced by such a quantum current density.

This book gives a comprehensive account of modern x-ray science, based on the use of synchrotron radiation and x-ray-free electron lasers (XFELs).

Quantum mechanics - big words for little kids.

Benjamin Bederson contributed to the world of physics in many areas: in atomic physics, where he achieved renown by his scattering and polarizability experiments, as the Editor-in-Chief for the American Physical Society, where he saw the introduction of electronic publishing and a remarkable growth of the APS journals, with ever increasing world-wide contributions to these highly esteemed journals, and as the originator of a number of international physics conferences in the fields of atomic and collision physics, which are continuing to this day.

This title presents the state-of-the-art in molecular engineering and new developments in the fields of materials science, membrane biophysics, interfaces, sensing, and intermolecular interactions including molecular recognition.

Volume 54 of the Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Series contains ten contributions, covering a diversity of subject areas in atomic, molecular and optical physics.

This book presents an overview of the different few-body techniques developed in nuclear physics and their applications to explore the structural properties of neutron-rich unstable nuclei, the so-called halo nuclei.

This book discusses the effect of the excitation of rotational, vibrational, and electronic degrees of freedom on the basic electrical properties of molecules and, as a consequence, on molecular optical and transport properties together with reactivity.

These proceedings gather invited and contributed talks presented at the XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in December 2014.