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Download or read book Atomic Physics written by C. J. Foot and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics. However, the elementary atomic physics covered in the early chapters should be accessible to undergraduates when they are first introduced to the subject. The book describes some of the latest advances and the applications to Bose-Einstein condensation of atoms, matter-wave interferometry and quantum computing with trapped ions. To complement the usual quantum mechanical treatment of atomic structure the book strongly emphasizes the experimental basis of the subject, especially in the later chapters.