Cold and Ultracold Collisions in Quantum Microscopic and Mesoscopic Systems
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521781213
Subjects: Atomic & molecular physics; Condensed matter physics (liquids & solids); Low temperature physics; Science/Mathematics; Nuclear Physics; Science; Nuclear Energy; Science / Physics; Physics; Collisions (Nuclear physics); Materials at low temperatures
First sentence: In the 1980s the first successful experiments [312] and theory [98], demonstrating that light could be used to cool and confine atoms to submillikelvin temperatures, opened several exciting new chapters in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics.