"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Debye screening of circular Rydberg states of hydrogenic systems in collinear electric and magnetic fields of arbitrary strengths -- 3. The shape of spectral lines of two-electron Rydberg atoms/ions : analytical solution -- 4. Helium atoms and helium-like ions in the high-frequency laser field -- 5. Cl…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Interface-driven properties using neutron/x-ray reflectometry -- 1.2. Emerging phenomena at interfaces using polarized neutron reflectometry -- 1.3. Thin-film growth mechanisms -- 1.4. Thin-film deposition techniques -- 1.5. Other complementary surface characterisation techniques2. Theory of neutro…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What is an ion trap? -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Equation of motion of ions and Maxwell's equation -- 1.3. Can we trap ions using only a DC electric field? -- 1.4. Trap using DC magnetic field and DC electric field (Penning trap) -- 1.5. Fundamentals of an RF trap -- 1.6. Different configurations of electrodes to give…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-27).Introduction -- Background -- Laser excitation -- Rydberg lifetimes -- Detection -- Interactions -- Current directions -- Rydberg sensors -- Rydberg quantum optics -- Rydberg quantum simulators -- Outlook.Rydberg physics is the land of gentle giants--highly-excited electronic states where an electron is, on …
"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Preliminary concepts. 1. The overall picture -- 1.1. The atomistic structure of matter -- 1.2. The quantum nature of physical laws -- 1.3. The dual nature of physical phenomena2. Essential quantum mechanics -- 2.1. The wavefunction -- 2.2. Quantum operators -- 2.3. Time evolution -- 2.4. Systems of identical parti…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction and overview -- 1.1. Historical background -- 1.2. Structure of the book2. Characterization of optical fields -- 2.1. Electromagnetic field modes in vacuum -- 2.2. Quantization of electromagnetic field modes -- 2.3. Quantized electromagnetic fields -- 2.4. Quantum distribution functions3. Atom-field intera…
"Version: 20210204"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Background and context to warm dense matter -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Features of warm dense matter -- 1.3. Effects of warm dense matter on electronic structure -- 1.4. Equations of state for warm dense matter -- 1.5. Creating and probing warm dense matter2. Shock and ramp compression -- 2.1. General background -- 2…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Modeling approaches for gas discharge plasmas -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Boltzmann kinetic equation and derivation of balance equations for the density, momentum, and energy of plasma particles -- 1.3. Two-fluid equations for plasma -- 1.4. Fluid equations of plasma in drift-diffusion approximation -- 1.5. Limitation…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introductory description of processes related to the negative pressure in liquids -- 1.1. A qualitative picture of the formation of discontinuities in a liquid -- 1.2. Negative pressure -- 1.3. Rayleigh bubble -- 1.4. Viscosity accounting in Rayleigh's equation for a bubble in a liquid -- 1.5. Dynamics of a bubble in t…