Advances in Atomic Physics: An Overview

For young students just beginning an education in atomic physics to experienced researchers like myself who have lived through many of the exciting and still ongoing developments recounted here, and for all those in between, this book presents an inviting feast. Bon appétit! –William D Phillips Nobel Laureate 1997, University of Maryland

Advances in Atomic Physics by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and David Guery-Odelin is destined to become a classic. This book describes the spectacular advances of recent decades that have transformed atomic physics into one of the most exciting fields in science. The single volume constitutes a guide, a handbook, a textbook, and an encyclopedia of atomic physics. Throughout, the voice of Claude Çohen-Tannoudji whose own contributions were seminal to this transformation and whose lectures at the College de France are legendary rings through with the elegance and transparency that rank him as among the great teachers of our time. –Daniel Kleppner, Center for Ultracold Atoms, MIT

“French Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is second to none in his understanding of the modern theory and application of atom-photon interactions. He is also known for his lucid and accessible writing style … Advances in Atomic Physics is an impressive and wonderful-to-read reference text … Certainly researchers in the fields of atom-photon interactions and atom traps will want it as a reference on their bookshelves … A selection of chapters may be of benefit to students: the early chapters for those entering the field, the later chapters for those already doing atom-laser PhD thesis work.” —Jook Walraven, University of Amsterdam

Advances in Atomic Physics by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and David Guery-Odelin is destined to become a classic. This book describes the spectacular advances of recent decades that have transformed atomic physics into one of the most exciting fields in science. The single volume constitutes a guide, a handbook, a textbook, and an encyclopedia of atomic physics. Throughout, the voice of Claude Çohen-Tannoudji whose own contributions were seminal to this transformation and whose lectures at the College de France are legendary rings through with the elegance and transparency that rank him as among the great teachers of our time. –Daniel Kleppner, Center for Ultracold Atoms, MIT

“This book describes the breathtaking advances of atomic physics during the last decades. The authors have played a major role in these developments and describe them with unique lucidity.” — Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

“I think that this book will be of high value for the scientific community involved in atomic physics and in general for students and researchers interested in the last applications of quantum physics, both from an experimental and theoretical perspective. It contains a detailed and comprehensive overview of the most challenging developments in this fascinating field of physics, including the most recent achievements in atomic interferometry, entanglement phenomena and ultracold quantum gases.”– Sandro Stringari, CNR-INO Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation, University of Trento, Italy

“For young students just beginning an education in atomic physics to experienced researchers like myself who have lived through many of the exciting and still ongoing developments recounted here, and for all those in between, this book presents an inviting feast. Bon appétit!” –William D Phillips, Nobel Laureate, 1997, University of Maryland

“It is a most-interesting collection of topics organized in a unique and interesting way.” — Steve Harris, Stanford University

“It is a great occasion that Claude Cohen-Tannoudji as a true master of the AMO field took the effort to summarize the experience of a lifetime in a comprehensive text. David Guéry-Odelin is the ideal sparring partner on such an enterprise … This impressive new book offers a unique overview over half a century of advances in atomic physics. It belongs on the desktops and in the iPads of every serious student of modern atomic physics.” —Jook Walraven, University of Amsterdam

“French Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is second to none in his understanding of the modern theory and application of atom-photon interactions. He is also known for his lucid and accessible writing style … Advances in Atomic Physics is an impressive and wonderful-to-read reference text … Certainly researchers in the fields of atom-photon interactions and atom traps will want it as a reference on their bookshelves … A selection of chapters may be of benefit to students: the early chapters for those entering the field, the later chapters for those already doing atom-laser PhD thesis work.” — Physics Today

“Advances in Atomic Physics is destined to become a classic guide, handbook and textbook for students, teachers and researchers in modern atomic physics, but it will also be surely appreciated for the clear and engaging historical presentation of theoretical, experimental and instrumental developments that led to the fascinating discoveries of the Bose-Einstein condensation in ultra-cold gases and to the experimental achievement of the gedanken experiment on quantum entanglement in the past ten years.” —II Nuovo Saggiatore