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"A strong recommendation for any book in one's own field is to see it written the way you would have written it. This is certainly the case here. If you are a researcher or a teacher in laser cooling and trapping or a related field of atomic, molecular, and optical physics, then this is a a ~must buya (TM) text for your bookshelf. And buy one for your students too, because your copy will inevitably disappear." The Physicist

.,."For its intended use, which is to guide newcomers into the field of laser cooling and trapping, the book does a superb joba ]The book is well placed to evolve with the field for many years to come." Physics Today



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Laser cooling allows one to slow atoms to roughly the speed of a mosquito and to control their motions with unprecedented precision. This elegant technique, whereby atoms, molecules, and even microscopic beads of glass, can be trapped in small regions of free space by beams of light and subsequently moved at will using other beams, has revolutionized many areas of physics. In particular, it provides a useful research tool for the study of individual atoms, for investigating the details of chemical reactions, and even for the study of atomic motion in the quantum domain. This text begins with a review of the relevant aspects of quantum mechanics; it then turns to the electromagnetic interactions involved in slowing and trapping atoms, in both magnetic and optical traps. The concluding chapters discuss a broad range of applications, including atomic clocks, studies of ultra-cold collision processes, diffraction and interference of atomic beams, optical lattices, and Bose-Einstein condensation. The book is intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students who have some basic knowledge of optics and quantum mechanics. An extensive bibliography provides access to the current research literature.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent synopsis of laser cooling., 22 Feb 2002
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This book is currently the only one that covers the entire topic of laser-cooling; a topic which is at the forefront of experimental science and has been essentially won two Nobel Prizes in the last few years.
Essentially starting at graduate level, it covers theory, experimental concepts and applications in a well organised fashion, breaking the book in three segments.
In the theory section, the introduction is fleeting. It points out what it assumes the reader knows and then carries on from this advance level. So while it is an introductory book, it requires a good background in physics to get the most from it.
As in all books covering so much detail there are errors and some potential in misunderstanding of fundamental points. As this is an early edition, it is hoped that these are removed: things such as a fundamental convolution in the explanation of the nature of pi-transitions.

However this is an excellent book on an interesting topic. The appendices are very good and in combination with the list of references at the finish it gives a near total insight into aser cooling.

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