Atomic Physics 15 : Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Atomic Physics, Zeeman-Effect Centenary, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 5-9 August 1996

by Heuvell, H.B. Van Linden Van Den; Walraven, J.T.M. (Editor); Reynolds, M.W. (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9789810231866
• ISBN10: 9810231865
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Generation of a "Schrodinger cat" of radiation and observation of its decoherence	1	(15)
S. Haroche
M. Brune
J.M. Raimond
E. Hagley
C. Wunderlich
A. Maali
J. Dreger
X. Maitre
Synthesis of entangled states and quantum computing	16	(15)
J.I. Cirac
S. Gardiner
T. Pellizzari
J. Poyatos
P. Zoller
Entangled states of atomic ions for quantum metrology and computation	31	(16)
D.J. Wineland
C. Monroe
D.M. Meekhof
B.E. King
D. Leibfried
W.M. Itano
J.C. Bergquist
D. Berkeland
J.J. Bollinger
J. Miller
Entanglement and indistinguishability: Coherence experiments with photon pairs and triplets	47	(15)
A. Zeilinger
Atom optics as a testing ground for quantum chaos	62	(20)
C.F. Bharucha
J.C. Robinson
F.L. Moore
K.W. Madison
S.R. Wilkinson
B. Sundaram
M.G. Raizen
Coherent ultra-bright XUV lasers and harmonics	82	(15)
J.S. Wark
K. Burnett
D. Chambers
M.H. Key
S.G. Preston
A. Sanpera
C.G. Smith
J.B. Watson
M. Zepf
J. Zhang
C.L.S. Lewis
A.G. McPhee
A.E. Dangor
P. Lee
A. Dyson
G.J. Pert
P.B. Holden
J.A. Ploues
G.J. Tallents
L. Dwivedi
M. Holden
P.A. Norreys
D. Neely
P. Fews
S. Moustazis
M. Bakarezos
P. Loukakos
Hollow atoms	97	(16)
R. Morgenstern
Interdisciplinary experiments with polarized noble gases	113	(19)
E.W. Otten
The creation and study of Bose-Einstein condensation in a cold alkali vapor	132	(13)
C.E. Wieman
E.A. Cornell
D. Jin
J. Ensher
M. Matthews
C. Myatt
E. Burt
R. Ghrist
Macroscopic quantum phenomena in trapped Bose-condensed gases	145	(13)
Yu. Kagan
E.L. Surkov
G.V. Shlyapnikov
Doppler-free spectroscopy of trapped atomic hydrogen	158	(11)
T.C. Killian
D.G. Fried
C.L. Cesar
A.D. Polcyn
T.J. Greytak
D. Kleppner
QED and the ground state of helium	169	(11)
W. Hogervorst
K.S.E. Eikema
W. Vassen
W. Ubachs
Towards coherent atomic samples using laser cooling	180	(12)
J. Dalibard
Bose-Einstein condensation of a weakly-interacting gas	192	(20)
C.G. Townsend
N.J. van Druten
M.R. Andrews
D.S. Durfee
D.M. Kurn
M.-O. Mewes
W. Ketterle
Zeeman and his contemporaries: Dutch physics around 1900	212	(9)
A.J. Kox
Zeeman's great discovery	221	(16)
P.F.A. Klinkenberg
The Zeeman effect: A tool for atom manipulation	237	(16)
C. Cohen-Tannoudji
The Zeeman effect a century later: New insights into classical physics	253	(18)
J.B. Delos
QED effects in few-electron high-Z systems	271	(18)
I. Lindgren
H. Persson
S. Salomonson
P. Sunnergren
Lamb shift experiments on high-Z one- and two-electron systems	289	(16)
Th. Stohlker
Fundamental constants of nature	305	(8)
L.B. Okun
Response of atoms in photonic lattices	313	(15)
D. van Coevorden
R. Sprik
P. de Vries
A. Lagendijk
Hydrogen-like systems and quantum electrodynamics	328	(15)
M.G. Boshier
New experiments with atomic lattices bound by light	343	(15)
A. Gorlitz
M. Weidemuller
T. Hansch
A. Hemmerich
Bloch oscillations of atoms in an optical potential	358	(16)
E. Peik
M.B. Dahan
I. Bouchoule
Y. Castin
Ch. Salomon
Quantum decoherence and inertial sensing with atom interferometers	374	(17)
D.E. Pritchard
M.S. Chapman
T.D. Hammond
D.A. Kokorowski
A. Lenef
R.A. Rubenstein
E.T. Smith
J. Schmiedmayer
Quantum effects in He clusters	391	(18)
J. Harms
M. Hartmann
W. Schollkopf
J.P. Toennies
A.F. Vilesov
Atoms in super-intense radiation fields	409	(13)
H.G. Muller
Wave packet dynamics of excited atomic electrons in intense laser fields	422	(9)
K.C. Kulander
K.J. Schafer
Nonlinear laser-electron scattering	431	(15)
D.D. Meyerhofer
Comparing the antiproton and proton and progress toward cold antihydrogen	446	(14)
G. Gabrielse
D.S. Hall
A. Khabbaz
T. Roach
P. Yesley
C. Heimann
H. Kalinowsky
W. Jhe
B. Brown
Author Index	460