Atoms, Molecules and Optical Physics 1

Ingolf Volker Hertel, Claus-Peter Schulz

W. T. Hill, Chi H. Lee

This book draws together the principal ideas that form the basis of atomic, molecular, and optical science and engineering. It covers the basics of atoms, diatomic molecules, atoms and molecules in static and electromagnetic fields and nonlinear optics. Exercises and bibliographies supplement each chapter, while several appendices present such important background information as physics and math definitions, atomic and molecular data, and tensor algebra. Accessible to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, or researchers who have been trained in one of the conventional curricula of physic

Hans‐A. Bachor, K. Kumar, Brian Albert Robson

Charles Day

Fine Control of Ultracold Polar MoleculesThe ability to store molecules in reconfigurable optical traps could allow researchers to harness the rich physics of molecules in quantum applications.By Charles Day U ltracold atoms are a promising platform for quantum science.Molecules could be even better thanks to properties that atoms lack, such as polarity and the availability of rotational states.Now two independent groups have succeeded in filling one-dimensional arrays of optical traps with ultracold polar molecules assembled from ultracold atoms [1, 2].The groups also demonstrated that they could set, change, and read out the individual quantum states of the molecules.The feat may enable techniques developed for trapped atoms to be implemented with molecules, making the richer molecular physics available to new quantum applications.

Misha Ivanov, P. C. Haljan, E. Constant +4 more

Some aspects of quantum well physics are very closely related to atomic and molecular physics. Quantum well and quantum dot semiconductor structures are, in some sense, artificial atoms (single well structures) and molecules (multiple well structures). We use this analogy to extend the ideas and results on laser interaction with atoms and molecules to the physics of laser interaction with quantum wells. We also try to use ideas developed in quantum well physics to understand molecular phenomena. For example, motivated by the analogy between quantum wells and atoms, we have experimentally demonstrated all-optical control of the direction of photocurrent in quantum well devices.