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This text will thoroughly update the existing literature on atomic physics. Intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics, the book will lead the students up to the latest advances and the applications to Bose-Einstein Condensation of atoms, matter-wave inter-ferometry and quantum computing with trapped ions. The elementary atomic physics covered in the early chapters should be accessible to undergraduates when they are first introduced to the subject. To complement the usual quantum mechanical treatment of atomic structure the book strongly emphasizes the experimental basis of the subject, especially in the later chapters. It includes ample tutorial material (examples, illustrations, chapter summaries, graded problem sets).

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Editorial Reviews: Review “An altogether useful, enjoyable book that can be used a resource, course text, and introduction to modern atomic research topics.”–CHOICE”Foot presents a textbook for an undergraduate course in atomic physics for students who understand quantum mechanics at the level of an introductory university course, including the Schrödinger equation in three dimensions and perturbation theory. After describing the basic principles of atomic structures and reviewing the classical ideas, he discusses laser spectroscopy, laser cooling, the Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute atomic vapors, matter-wave interferometry, and ion trapping.”–SciTech Book News About the Author CJ Foot was a Junior Research Fellow of Jesus College in Oxford 1984-86, as well as being awarded the Lindemann Trust Fellowship at Stanford University 1984-85 and the Royal Society University Research Fellowship 1986-1991. In 1991, he became a university lecturer and was awarded the title of Professor of physics in 2002. He won the National Physical Laboratory Metrology Award in 1990.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Not useful for learning material rigorously. The justification for many steps in deriving equations is either hidden, implied, or absent.

⭐This has the same problem as Introduction to Plasma by Chen where the text is printed too close to the spine. The reason print exists is so that you can read words on flat sheets of paper, instead of having to crane your neck to see what’s on the other side.

⭐A very useful reference text for advanced undergraduate or higher atomic physics. It moves rather quickly and assumes prior knowledge of quantum mechanics, but provides a lot of good information on modern experimental techniques.

⭐Well written. Requires knowledge of basic physics.

⭐it’s good

⭐I used the book for a course on semiclassical interaction matter-radiation (chapters 7-10), and I found it quite bad. It often lacks rigour, hiding under colloquial explanations a fundamentally superficial approach. It never reaches a deep comprehension of the Physics involved: the discussion of BE condensation, for instance, is simply non-sense. I leafed through the first chapters and I found them sloppy too. Maybe useful for experimentalists for the several experimental techniques explained, but other sourches are recommended.

⭐This book has two types of material; both well done. The first could have been written decades ago, and is the “traditional” atomic physics. Where you start with the hydrogen atom, and investigate its spectroscopy with the Schrodinger equation. Then the book takes the next logical step by going to helium and thence to heavier atoms. LS and JJ coupling and other refinements. Such material is now quite well known and you need this for a solid background.But the book also has much more recent material. On quantum computing using qubits. These attempt to use the quantum states of small groups of atoms, to perform computations fundamentally different from current digital efforts. Enough detail is given for you to appreciate the severe experimental travails of the field, and how much more remains to be done, if qubits are ever to become useful.

⭐All the copies of this book are always out in my university’s library! Says it all really, what more could an undergrad want? (Perhaps a little more space from the print to the spine of the book… but dont let that deter you)

⭐brought this for my dad. he really likes it.

⭐There are a lot of equations in this book and I was wondering why are no keys to the symbols. Then I found in the text a reference to the key table inside the back cover of the book. There is none. Without this the book is just about impossible to use. I wonder if this is because of some print-on-demand system that Amazon is using.

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