Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics: Volume 59

Contains contributions from some of the experts in the field of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics. This title includes articles that contain some review material, but are intended to provide a comprehensive picture of important developments in AMO physics.

The Casimir Effect in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics - James F. Babb Coherent Population Trapping in Chip-Scale Atomic Devices - John Kitching Dissociative Recombination: Theory and Experiment - Rainer Johnsen & Steven L. Kuberman Permanent Electric Dipole Moments of Atoms and Molecules - Timothy Chupp Spontaneous Decay, Unitarity, and the Weisskopf-Wigner Approximation - Paul Berman & George W. Ford Ultrafast nonlinear optical signals viewed from the molecule's perspective; Kramers-Heisenberg transition amplitudes vs susceptibilities - Shaul Mukamel & Saar Rahav