Rydberg physics /

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"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 average, far from the nucleus. They are created with a lot of energy, have unusually large size and live relatively long. They are useful because they are extremely sensitive to their environment; so much so that a single photon of light can change the behaviour of not only one, but dozens or hundreds of them, over distances we can easily see under an optical microscope. Wherever Rydberg states are created--in atoms, molecules or solids--they all share common features that are exemplified by the physical description of highly-excited hydrogen atoms, with energy levels described by the Rydberg formula.Final-year undergraduates, new PhD students and early-career scientists.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Nikola ?eSibali?c studied theoretical and experimental physics at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Physics, Serbia. He received his PhD from Durham University, UK, under the supervision of Kevin Weatherill and Charles S Adams. Currently a postdoc, he spends his time between Aarhus University, Denmark, and Institut d'Optique, France, where he continues to explore curiosities of the atom-light interaction, Rydberg states and driven-dissipative many-body dynamics. Charles S Adams studied physics at the University of Oxford and received a PhD on laser physics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. He completed postdoctoral work in Germany and the United States before starting a research group at Durham University in 1995. He is Director of JQC Durham-Newcastle and was awarded the 2014 Institute of Physics Thomson medal for his pioneering work in the field of Rydberg quantum optics.Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 14, 2018).

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1 online resource (viii, 27 pages) :color illustrations.

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English

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9780750316354

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SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular.
Rydberg states.
Atomic & molecular physics.

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Nikola ?eSibali?c, Charles S. Adams.

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