Atomic and molecular physics

Many books explain the theory of atomistic computer simulations; this book teaches you how to run them This introductory "e;how to"e; title enables readers to understand, plan, run, and analyze their own independent atomistic simulations, and decide which method to use and which questions to ask in their research project.

This book covers a broad range of interdisciplinary topics, focusing on atoms and molecules in intense laser fields, excitation processes in intense laser fields, photonics and materials, high-order harmonics generation, XFEL, high-power lasers and their applications, and quantum computing.

One of the aims of this book was to focus the attention of specialists to the diversity of the effects of the ionising radiation on biological and physical systems.

The cluster which is an ensemble of two thousands of atoms or molecules, has emerged as a completely new class of materials at the frontier of materials science.

The aim of Advances in Nuclear Physics is to provide review papers which chart the field of nuclear physics with some regularity and completeness.

The method of effective field theory (EFT) is ideally suited to deal with physical systems containing separate energy scales.

Covering a wide range of topics related to neutron and x-ray optics, this book explores the aspects of neutron and x-ray optics and their associated background and applications in a manner accessible to both lower-level students while retaining the detail necessary to advanced students and researchers.

This book provides the first graduate-level, self-contained introduction to recent developments that lead to the formulation of the configuration-interaction approach for open quantum systems, the Gamow shell model, which provides a unitary description of quantum many-body system in different regimes of binding, and enables the unification in the description of nuclear structure and reactions.

The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture series has become a very successful tradition in Swedish physics since it started in 1988.

Statistical Models for Nuclear Decay: From Evaporation to Vaporization describes statistical models that are applied to the decay of atomic nuclei, emphasizing highly excited nuclei usually produced using heavy ion collisions.

Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus is a history of atomic and nuclear physics.

This book gives a comprehensive review of the current status of the theory of the pion-two-nucleon systems at intermediate energies.

This book highlights a major advance in low-energy scattering theory: the Multi-Channel Algebraic Scattering (MCAS) theory, which represents an attempt to unify structure and reaction theory.

This book presents the latest theoretical studies giving new predictions and interpretations on the quantum correlation in molecular dynamics induced by ultrashort laser pulses.

Hans A Bethe received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1967 for his work on the production of energy in stars.

First-hand ''popular physics'' book by very famous theoretical physicist.

This volume is based on the lectures at the NATO Advanced Study Institute, entitled "e;Advanced Technologies Based on Wave and Beam Generated Plasmas"e;, held at Sozopol, Bulgaria, from May 22 till June 1, 1998.

Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology.

Quantitative Microbeam Analysis provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of quantitative microbeam analysis (MQA).

For more than a century, studies of atomic hydrogen have been a rich source of scientific discoveries.

The field of reactive intermediates has been blossoming at a rapid rate in recent years and its impact on chemistry, both "e;pure"e; and "e;applied,"e; as well as on biology, astronomy, and other areas of science, is enormous.

This volume continues the tradition of the Advances series.

Prominent progress in science is inevitably associated with controversies.

For graduate students unfamiliar with particle physics, An Introductory Course of Particle Physics teaches the basic techniques and fundamental theories related to the subject.

This theses reports on an experimental search for an exotic hadron, T+(1540) pentaquark, which is a genuine exotic hadron with a five-quark system of uuddsbar.

This book offers a concise and up-to-date introduction to the popular field of quantum information.

This volume presents the lecture notes of the 24th Advanced Course of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy in March 1994 at Les Diablerets.

Chemical reactions and growth processes on surfaces depend on the diffusion and re-orientation of the adsorbate molecules.

Few-body systems are both technically relatively simple and physically non- trivial enough to test theories quantitatively.

Nikolas Zoller examines the working principles and the underlying theoretical foundations of a microscopic heat engine.

Quantum correlations are not restricted to the well known entanglement investigated in Bell-type experiments.

This volume presents topics in which researchers in elementary particle and nuclear physics are commonly interested: nonperturbative aspects of QCD and chiral properties of hadrons, relativistic heavy ion reactions and quark-gluon plasma, nuclear matter at high temperature/ density, lattice QCD, quark structure of hadrons and nuclei, high q2 phenomena in hadrons and nuclei, heavy quarks and weak interaction, hyperon interactions and hypernuclei, relativistic nuclear theory, recent experimentals and other topics.

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).

The Lake Louise Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in physics.

This book presents a quantitative treatment of the theory and natural variations of light stable isotopes.

This volume presents an authoritative review of the physics of strongly and electroweakly interacting elementary particle matter in extreme conditions that prevailed in the very early Universe, and which are being recreated in high energy physics laboratories today.

This set of lectures deals with the transition from nuclear matter to quark matter.

This book offers a first-hand introduction to the Lanzhou Heavy Ion Research Facility.

It may tum out that, like certain other phenomena studied by sociologists, bouts of interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics tend to come in 60-year cycles.

New Edition: Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics (Revised Edition)This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works.

CHOICE: Highly RecommendedQuarks, Leptons and The Big Bang, Third Edition, is a clear, readable and self-contained introduction to particle physics and related areas of cosmology.

Single-photon generation and detection is at the forefront of modern optical physics research.

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multiphoton processes and multiphoton spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, etc.

This book aims to give a comprehensive view on the present status of a tremendously fast-developing field - the quantum dynamics of fragmenting many-particle Coulomb systems.

Photoelectron Spectroscopy presents an up-to-date introduction to the field by treating comprehensively the electronic structures of atoms, molecules, solids and surfaces.

While quantum theory has been used to study the physical universe with great profit, both intellectual and financial, ever since its discovery eighty-five years ago, over the last fifty years we have found out more and more about the theory itself, and what it tells us about the universe.

This festschrift collects contributions from renowned experts in atomic and molecular physics, chemistry, and related fields dedicated to Professor Dr Naseem K Rahman on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

This volume contains contributions from cooperative research activities in physics and chemistry and addresses heterogeneous systems like atoms and molecules in complex environments, dye molecules like the retinal chromophore in the protein box of the human eye, interacting atoms/molecules in the interlayer of adsorbed structures, nucleation and domain formation processes in magnetic and martensitic systems.