Table of Contents

Contents

1. Magnetic resonance contributions to other sciences
Norman F. Ramsey

2. A single quantum system: evolution, prediction, observation
Peter E. Toschek

3. The Quantum SI: A possible new international system of units
Peter J. Mohr

4. Studies of light halo nuclei from atomic isotope shifts
G.W.F. Drake

5. Quantum electrodynamics in one- and two-electron high-Z ions
Th. Stöhlker, A. Gumberidze, A. Kumar, R. Reuschl and M. Trassinelli

6. Precise atomic masses for fundamental physics determined at SMILETRAP
R. Schuch, I. Bergström, T, Fritioff, Sz. Nagy, A. Solders and M. Suhonen

7. HITRAP: A facility at GSI for highly charged ions
H.-J. Kluge, T. Beier, K. Blaum, L. Dahl, S. Eliseev, F. Herfurth, B. Hofmann, O. Kester, S. Koszudowski, C. Kozhuharov, G. Maero, W. Nörtershäuser, J. Pfister, W. Quint, U. Ratzinger, A. Schempp, R. Schuch, T. Stöhlker, R.C. Thompson, M. Vogel, G. Vorobjev, D.F.A. Winters and G. Werth

8. Structure of vacuum and elementary matter: From superheavies via hypermatter to antimatter – The vacuum decay in supercritical fields
Walter Greiner

9. Asymptotic behavior of MP2 correlation energies for closed-shell atoms
Karol Jankowski, Romuald S³upski and Jesus R. Flores

10. A computer–algebraic approach to the derivation of Feynman–Goldstone perturbation expansions for open–shell atoms and molecules
Stephan Fritzsche, Brajesh K. Mani and Dilip Angom

11. Experiments on highly charged heavy ions in conjunction with exotic atoms
Paul Indelicato, M. Trassinelli, D.F. Anagnostopoulos, S. Boucard, D.S. Covita, G. Borchert, A. Dax, J.P. Egter, E. Gotta, A. Gruber, A. Hirtl, M. Hennebach, H. Fuhrmann, E.-O. Le Bigot, Y.-W. Liu, B. Manil, N. Nelms, S. Schlesser, J.M.F. dos Santos, L.M. Simons, L. Stingelin, J. Veloso, A. Wasser, A. Wells and J. Zmeskal

12. Conceptual problems in phenomenological interpretation in searches for variation of constants & violation of various invariances
Savely G. Karshenboim

13. Extensive calculations of high-precision energy levels in hydrogen and deuterium through a last-squares adjustment
Eric-Olivier Le Bigot, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Svetlana Kotochigova, Peter J. Mohr and Barry N. Taylor

About the Author

I was born in Springfield, Mass, and Educated at Williams College (BA) and the University of New Hampshire (PhD). Following that, I was a postdoctoral at Uppsala University in Sweden, and at Northwestern University in Evanston. For the past four decades, I have worked in the Quantum Theory Project, Department of Physics, at the University of Florida. My interests have always been in the theory of molecular electronic structure. More recently, I have been working on the interaction of fast particles, mostly protons and alpha particles, with proto-biological molecules, in terms of the transfer of energy from the projectile to the molecular target, and the outcome of that energy transfer. Such energy transfer is primarily electronic, and the initial electronic excitation results in target electronic and vibrational excitation, ionization, fragmentation, charge exchange, and other processes. The study of these processes, known as stopping power, has applications in fields from microelectronics to tumor therapy. The investigations are interesting and continue.