Pushing the Frontiers of Atomic Physics: Proceedings of the XXI International Conference on Atomic Physics, Storrs, Connecticut, USA 27 July - 1 August 2008

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Robin Coté
World Scientific, 2009 - Science - 372 pages
In memoriam. Herbert Walther, scientist extraordinaire / P. Meystre. Willis E. Lamb / P. Berman -- Nobel Laureate session. When is a quantum gas a quantum liquid? / E.A. Cornell. Cooperative emission of light quanta : a theory of coherent radiation damping / R.J. Glauber. Coherent control of ultracold matter : fractional quantum Hall physics and large-area atom interferometry / S. Chu -- Precision measurements. More accurate measurement of the electron magnetic moment and the fine structure constant / G. Gabrielse. Determination of the fine structure constant with atom interferometry and Bloch oscillations / F. Biraben. Precise measurements of s-wave scattering phase shifts with a juggling atomic clock / K. Gibble. Quantum control of spins and photons at nanoscales / M.D. Lukin -- Quantum information and quantum optics. Atomic ensemble quantum memories / A. Kuzmich. Quantum non-demolition photon counting and time-resolved reconstruction of non-classical field states in a cavity / S. Haroche. Spin squeezing on an atomic-clock transition / V. Vuletić. Quantum micro-mechanics with ultracold atoms / D. Stamper-Kurn. Improved "position squared" readout using degenerate cavity modes / J.G.E. Harris -- Quantum degenerate systems. Tunable interactions in a Bose-Einstein condensate of Lithium : photoassociation and disorder-induced localization / R.G. Hulet. A purely dipolar quantum gas / T. Pfau. Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons / Y. Yamamoto. Anderson localization of matter waves / P. Bouyer. Anderson localization of a non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate / M. Inguscio. Fermi gases with tunable interactions / J.E. Thomas. Photoemission spectroscopy for ultracold atoms / D.S. Jin. Universality in strongly interacting Fermi gases / P.D. Drummond. Mapping the phase diagram of a two-component Fermi gas with strong interactions / Y. Shin. Exploring universality of few-body physics based on ultracold atoms near Feshbach resonances / C. Chin -- Optical lattices and cold molecules. Atom interferometry with a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate / G. Modugno. An optical plaquette : minimum expressions of topological matter / B. Paredes. Strongly correlated bosons and fermions in optical lattices / I. Bloch. Laser cooling of molecules / P. Pillet. A dissipative Tonks-Girardeau gas of molecules / S. Dürr. Spectroscopy of ultracold KRb molecules / W.C. Stwalley. Cold molecular ions : single molecule studies / M. Drewsen -- Ultrafast phenomena. The frontiers of attosecond physics / L.F. DiMauro. Strong-field control of X-ray processes / L. Young
 

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