Atomic and molecular physics

Volume 16 marks the beginning of a special topic series devoted to modern techniques in protein NMR, under the Biological Magnetic Resonance series.

This book resulted from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Electron Kinetics and Applications of Glow Discharges,"e; held in St.

This book contains contributions to the 172.

The three articles of the present volume pertain to very different subjects, all ofconsiderable current interest.

This volume of Advances in Nuclear Physics addresses two very different frontiers of contemporary nuclear physics - one highly theoretical and the other solidly phenomenological.

This volume presents five pedagogical articles spanning frontier developments in contemporary nuclear physics ranging from the physics of a single nucleon to nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang.

The aim of this volume is to offer a balanced overview of molecular Rydberg spectroscopy as it has developed over recent decades.

At the time when increasing numbers of chemists are being attracted by the fascination of supposedly easy computing and associated colourful imaging, this book appears as a counterpoint.

The history of particle physics, the hunt for the most elusive particle, and the fundamental questions the search has inspiredHow did physicists combine talent and technology to discover the Higgs boson, the last piece in our inventory of the subatomic world?

If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you.

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

This book proposes and develops the equilibrium compound nucleus post-fission theory, a powerful tool for studying the fission process and making numerical calculations of post-fission nuclear data.

In two volumes, this book presents a detailed, systematic treatment of electromagnetics with application to the propagation of transient electromagnetic fields (including ultrawideband signals and ultrashort pulses) in dispersive attenuative media.

This book describes the state-of-the-art in the emerging field of optical trapping of ions, as well as the most recent advances enabling the use of this technique as a versatile tool for novel investigations in atomic physics.

This book presents the current advances in understanding of the fast excitation transfer processes in inorganic scintillation materials, the discovery of new materials exhibiting excellent time resolution, and the results on the evaluation of timing limits for scintillation detectors.

This primer begins with a brief introduction to the main ideas underlying Effective Field Theory (EFT) and describes how nuclear forces are obtained from first principles by introducing a Euclidean space-time lattice for chiral EFT.

This volume presents a selection of articles based on inspiring lectures held at the "e;Capri"e; Advanced Summer School, an original event conceived and promoted by Leonida Antonio Gizzi and Ralph Assmann that focuses on novel schemes for plasma-based particle acceleration and radiation sources, and which brings together researchers from the conventional accelerator community and from the high-intensity laser-matter interaction research fields.

In two volumes, this book presents a detailed, systematic treatment of electromagnetics with application to the propagation of transient electromagnetic fields (including ultrawideband signals and ultrashort pulses) in dispersive absorptive media.

This textbook is a unique and ambitious primer of nuclear physics, which introduces recent theoretical and experimental progresses starting from basics in fundamental quantum mechanics.

This book provides an in-depth and accessible description of special relativity and quantum mechanics which together form the foundation of 21st century physics.

This book covers polarization, alignment, and orientation effects in atomic collisions induced by electron, heavy particle, or photon impact.

This comprehensive volume offers readers a progressive and highly detailed introduction to the complex behavior of neutrons in general, and in the context of nuclear power generation.

This graduate-level text collects and synthesizes a series of ten lectures on the nuclear quantum many-body problem.

This book focuses on the use of novel electron microscopy techniques to further our understanding of the physics behind electron-light interactions.

This comprehensive book on Nanoclusters comprises sixteen authoritative chapters written by leading researchers in the field.

Heavy water (deuterium oxide) played a sinister role in the race for nuclear energy during the World War II.

This volume continues the tradition of the Advances series.

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).

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.

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

This monograph provides a state-of-the-art treatment of learning and robust control in quantum technology.

This text offers a brief introduction to the dispersion relations as an approach to calculate S-matrix elements, a formalism that allows one to take advantage of the analytical structure of scattering amplitudes following the basic principles of unitarity and causality.

This concise primer reviews the latest developments in the field of jets.

The Generator Coordinate Method (GCM) is a mathematical tool for the understanding of stable atomic nuclei.

The book provides an introduction to both theoretical and experimental results on chirality and wobbling in atomic nuclei.

This book provides an accessible introduction to radioactivity.

This book highlights quantum optics technologies that can revolutionize the way we encode, store, transmit, and handle information.

The fifth edition of this well-established, highly regarded two-volume set continues to provide a fundamental introduction to advanced particle physics while incorporating substantial new experimental results, especially in the areas of Higgs and top sector physics, as well as CP violation and neutrino oscillations.

The Langevin and Generalised Langevin Approach To The Dynamics Of Atomic, Polymeric And Colloidal Systems is concerned with the description of aspects of the theory and use of so-called random processes to describe the properties of atomic, polymeric and colloidal systems in terms of the dynamics of the particles in the system.

This book introduces readers to MesoBioNano (MBN) Explorer - a multi-purpose software package designed to model molecular systems at various levels of size and complexity.

This book introduces the ideas and concepts of nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy, outlines its history, and provides insight into the present state of the art of the experimental technology and understanding of nonlinear dielectric effects.

Nuclear spins are highly coherent quantum objects that were featured in early ideas and demonstrations of quantum information processing.