Atomic and molecular physics

This book is intended for graduate students in Physics.

This is the first comprehensive textbook on the physical aspects of organic solids.

The central subject of this thesis is the theoretical description of ultrafast dynamical processes in molecular systems of chemical interest and their control by laser pulses.

This book presents the state of the art on thermophysical and thermochemical properties, fabrication methodologies, irradiation behaviours, fuel reprocessing procedures, and aspects of waste management for oxide fuels in general and for thoria-based fuels in particular.

This book develops a methodology for the real-time coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and phonons in nanostructures, both isolated structures and those open to an environment.

Atomic and Molecular Photoabsorption: Partial Cross Sections is a companion work to Joseph Berkowitz's earlier work, Atomic and Molecular Photoabsorption: Absolute Total Cross Sections, published with Academic Press in 2002.

The use of ion accelerators for purposes other than nuclear l physics research has expanded to the point where lother uses are now the most typical.

This series, established in 1965, is concerned with recent developments in the general area of atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

Quantum logic gates are the crucial information-processing operation of quantumcomputers.

The workshop "e;Nonhnear MHD Waves and Turbulence"e; was held at the - servatoire de Nice, December 1-4, 1998 and brought together an international group of experts in plasma physics, fluid dynamics and applied mathematics.

This book is intended for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physics, nuclear engineering, health physics and nuclear medicine, and for specialized training courses for radiation protection personnel and environmental safety engineers.

Since their initial discovery, Diamond Like Carbon films have enjoyed an overwhelming interest from both the scientific and industrial community.

At least 10 years have elapsed since a comprehensive monograph concer- ned with the broad subject of cryogenics has been published.

High energy gamma-ray photons are the prime probes of the relativistic or high-energy universe, populated by black holes, neutron stars, supernovae, quasars, and matter-antimatter annihilations.

This book reports on the search for a new heavy particle, the Vector-Like Top quark (VLT), in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

These Proceedings report the scholarly work presented in Leningrad at the largest conference ever held on luminescence.

This book introduces the vast subject of supersymmetry along with many specific examples of engineering applications, for example: The design of quantum unitary gates using supersymmetric actions Bosonic and Fermionic noise in quantum systems using the Hudson-Parthasarathy quantum stochastic calculus Superstring theory applied to the quantum mechanics of neurons and supersymmetric quantum filtering theory which can, for example, be used to filter out the noise in a cavity resonator electromagnetic field produced by the presence electrons and positrons in a bath surrounding it Simplified versions of super-Yang-Mills theory with gauge and gaugino fields, both transforming under the adjoint representation of the gauge group and elementary super-gravity models have also been introduced All through the book, emphasis is laid upon exploiting the supersymmetry existing in the nature of Boson-Fermion exchange in designing engineering systems like quantum computers and analyzing the performance of systems in the presence of supersymmetric quantum noise.

This book systematically provides an overview of the use of a wide range of spectroscopic methods (Mid- and Near-Infrared, Infrared Emission, Raman, Solid-State Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, X-ray Photoelectron, Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, X-ray Absorption Near Edge, Electron Spin and Mossbauer spectroscopy) to investigate kaolin minerals (kaolinite, dickite, nacrite and halloysite) and their modifications (intercalation compounds, nanocomposites and other modifications).

Theory of Nonlinear Propagation of High Harmonics Generated in a Gaseous Medium establishes the theoretical tools to study High-Order Harmonic Generation (HHG) by intense ultrafast infrared lasers in atoms and molecules.

This NATO Advanced Study Institute was concerned with modern ab initio methods for the determination of the electronic structure of molecules.

The recent high precision results from the LEP supercollider at CERN appear favorable for supergravity unification of the electroweak and the strong forces.

Volume 21 provides the basis of the MHD theory in two extended reviews.

This book presents and describes a series of unusual and striking strong-field phenomena concerning atoms and free electrons.

This workshop brought together theorists actively working in studies of QCD and general aspects of dynamics in non-Abelian gauge theories.

This book describes recent theoretical and experimental developments in the study of static and dynamic properties of atomic nuclei, many-body systems of strongly interacting neutrons and protons.

A Nobel Foundation Symposium on the subject: "e;Nonlinear Effects 1n Plasmas"e;, was held at Aspenasgarden, Lerum, in the G6teborg area of Sweden from June 11-17, 1976.

These proceedings comprise a selection of invited and contributed papers presented at the 15th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (ICXRL 2016), held at the Nara Kasugano International Forum, Japan, from May 22 to 27, 2016.

These peer-reviewed NIC XV conference proceedings present the latest major advances in nuclear physics, astrophysics, astronomy, cosmochemistry and neutrino physics, which provide the necessary framework for a microscopic understanding of astrophysical processes.

This volume provides up-to-date information on selected topics in nuclear physics and their future prospects.

From the early examples of what was to be called MRI, extending the te- nique to higher fields than those of less than 0.

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which has evolved only within the last 20 years, has become one of the very important tools in chemistry and physics.

Gaseous Dielectrics VIII covers recent advances and developments in a wide range of basic, applied, and industrial areas of gaseous dielectrics.

This proceedings volume describes many-body effects in highly correlated systems with special emphasis on metal clusters and transition from the free atom to the solid state limit and on strong laser field effects.

This volume outlines the status of fundamental physics at the threshold of the 21st century.

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

This second edition adds 46 new problems, for a total of 203.

Diamond nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers can transform quantum information science into practical quantum information technology, including fast, safe computing.

New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is "e;a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century"e; (The New York Review of Books).

From World War II to the present day, nuclear power has remained a controversial topic in the public eye.

The papers collected in this book show the results of investigations performed by Russian scientists in the field of low dose irradiation action.

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The solution of the Dirac equation for an electron in a Coulomb field is systematically treated here by utilizing new insights provided by supersymmetry.

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.

The symposium and workshop "e;Continuous Advances in QCD / Arkadyfest"e; was the fifth in the series of meetings organized by the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota.

This monograph reviews all relevant technologies based on mass spectrometry that are used to study or screen biological interactions in general.

This book grew out of an ongoing effort to modernize Colgate University's three-term, introductory, calculus-Ievel physics course.

A variety of standard problems in theoretical nuclear-structure physics is addressed by the well-documented computer codes presented in this book.

Nuclear isomers are the long-lived excited states of nuclei.

The aim of this book is to present review articles describing the latest theoretical and experimental developments in the field of cold atoms and molecules.