Modern atomic physics / Vasant Natarajan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Metrology;
Chapter 2: Preliminaries;
Chapter 3: Atoms;
Chapter 4: Nucleus;
Chapter 5: Resonance;
Chapter 6: Interaction;
Chapter 7: Multiphoton;
Chapter 8: Coherence;
Chapter 9: Lineshapes;
Chapter 10: Spectroscopy;
Chapter 11: Cooling and Trapping;
Appendix A: Standards;
Appendix B: What Is a Photon?;
Appendix C: Einstein as Armchair Detective: The Case of Stimulated Radiation;
Appendix D: Frequency Comb.

This book explains core areas of atomic physics. Important topics discussed include the spontaneous emission of radiation, stimulated transitions and the properties of gas, the physics and applications of resonance fluorescence, coherence, cooling and trapping of charged and neutral particles, and atomic beam magnetic resonance experiments. Covering standards, a different way of looking at a photon, stimulated radiation, and frequency combs, the appendices avoid jargon and use historical notes and personal anecdotes to make the topics accessible to non-atomic physics students.