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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Main symbols used in text
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 The existence of atoms
• 1.2 The size of atoms
• 2 The structure of the atom
• 2.1 First models – the Thomson atom
• 2.2 Probing the atom
• 2.3 The nuclear model of the atom
• 2.4 Comparison of the model with experiment
• 2.5 The impossibility of the classical nuclear atom
• 3 The quantum mechanical picture of the atom
• 3.1 The electron as a quantum particle
• 3.2 Schrodinger’s equation
• 3.3 An electron in the electric field of the nucleus
• 3.4 Electron eigenfunctions
• 3.5 The physical meaning of the quantum numbers n, I, m
• 3.6 The hydrogen atom
• 4 Atomic spectra
• 4.1 Spectroscopy as a source of information about atoms
• 4.2 The general characteristics of gas discharge spectra
• 4.3 The hydrogen spectrum
• 4.4 Hydrogen-like spectra
• 4.5 Fine structure in hydrogen and hydrogen-like spectra
• 5 Fine structure of spectral lines and electron spin
• 5.1 Fine structure in the hydrogen spectrum
• 5.2 Calculation of the spin-orbit coupling energy
• 5.3 The quantized electron spin
• 5.4 Other causes of fine structure
• 5.5 The widths of spectral lines
• 6 The interaction of atoms and radiation
• 6.1 Absorption and emission of radiation
• 6.2 Equilibrium between atoms and the radiation field
• 6.3 The physics of the A and Β coefficients
• 6.4 Physical model of the field-atom interaction
• 6.5 Fermi’s ‘golden rule’ for transitions
• 6.6 Allowed and forbidden transitions.
• 6.7 Spontaneous emission
• 6.8 Spontaneous emission and the quantization of the e.m. field
• 6.9 States of the quantized radiation field
• 6.10 The photon
• 7 More complex atoms
• 7.1 Schrödinger s equation for more complex systems
• 7.2 The Pauli exclusion principle
• 7.3 The Aufbau principle and electron configurations
• 7.4 The periodic table
• 8 The helium atom and term symbols for complex atoms
• 8.1 Spectra and energy level diagrams for helium
• 8.2 Eigenfunctions for the helium electrons – singlet and triplet states
• 8.3 Energy eigenvalues
• 8.4 The effect of the electron-electron interaction
• 8.5 Term symbols and fine structure
• 8.6 Hund’s rules for energy level splitting
• 9 Further discussion of atomic structure
• 9.1 Hydrogen-like atoms
• 9.2 Helium-like atoms
• 9.3 The structure of carbon
• 9.4 Other elements
• 9.5 The calculation of atomic orbitāls
• 9.6 Self-consistent field calculation of eigenfunctions
• 9.7 The effects of spin-orbit coupling energy – coupling schemes
• 10 The atomic physics of lasers
• 10.1 Stimulated emission and amplification
• 10.2 The laser oscillator
• 10.3 Semi-classical theory of the laser
• 10.4 Mode interactions
• 10.5 Quantized-field laser theory
• 10.6 Practical atomic gas lasers
• 10.7 The argon ion laser
• 10.8 The helium-neon laser
• 11 Atoms in external fields
• 11.1 The Stern-Gerlach experiment
• 11.2 Atoms in homogeneous magnetic fields – the Zeeman effect
• 11.3 Strong magnetic fields – the Paschen-Back effect
• 11.4 Atoms in static electric fields – the Stark Effect
• 11.5 Intense electromagnetic fields – Rabi oscillation
• 11.6 Atomic beam experiments
• 11.7 The Lamb shift in hydrogen
• 12 Single atom experiments
• 12.1 Experiments on single electrons and ions
• 12.2 Trapping neutral atoms
• 12.3 The quantum ‘watched pot’
• 12.4 Cavity quantum electrodynamics
• Appendix A Rutherford’s scattering formula
• Appendix B Angular momentum operators
• Appendix C Time-independent perturbation theory
• Appendix D Time-dependent perturbation theory – the calculation of the Einstein B coefficient
• Appendix E Quantization of the electromagnetic field
• Appendix F The Pauli exclusion principle
• Appendix G Eigenstates in helium
• Appendix H Exercises
• Appendix I Further reading
• Appendix J Useful constants
• Index