Table of Contents

1: Early Atomic Physics
2: The Hydrogen Atom
3: Helium
4: The Alkalis
5: The LS-coupling scheme
6: Hyperfine Structure and Isotope Shift
7: The Interaction of Atoms with Radiation
8: Doppler-free Laser Spectroscopy
9: Laser cooling and trapping
10: Magnetic trapping, Evaporative cooling and BEC
11: Atom Interferometry
12: Ion Traps
13: Quantum Computing

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

`This is a very timely book. The author has chosen a very modern set of topics, ones that increasingly are at the heart of the field of atomic and optical physics... I am aware of no competing textbook that offers this wide selection of topics at the cutting edge of this discipline.'
Chris Greene, University of Colorado, Boulder
`...a useful text on atomic physics and fills something of a gap between traditional textbooks and highly specialised books on the more modern topics.'
Charles Adams, University of Durham
`The approach to the modern topics, in particular the many connections to the classical developments of the field is masterly done.'
Klaus Molmer, University of Aarhus