Advances in Physics of Rydberg Atoms and Molecules
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Rydberg atoms are extremely sensitive to even weak electric fields and electromagnetic radiation. They also strongly interact with each other. Studies of Rydberg atoms and molecules have applications in highly-responsive sensing, quantum optics, quantum computing, quantum chaos, ultracold Rydberg gases and plasmas, anti-hydrogen formation, and plasma diagnostics.
This book presents in detail the latest advances in studying one- or two-electron Rydberg atoms and molecules, both for the isolated Rydberg systems and those immersed in a plasma. The book provides the results on classical trajectories of Rydberg electrons in some of these systems, allowing the visualization of, and better physical insight into, the dynamics of Rydberg atoms and molecules. The book also presents studies of the energy shift of Rydberg atoms and molecules and the shapes of spectral lines emitted by them, surveying many counterintuitive results.
At the cutting edge of its field, this research and reference text is ideal for graduate level students and researchers in quantum optics, quantum computing, plasma, and sensing technologies.
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Professor Oks has founded and co-founded new research fields including intra-Stark spectroscopy, masing without inversion, and quantum chaos. He has developed and implemented a large number of advanced spectroscopic methods for diagnosing various laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, and has published over 500 papers and 9 books. He is the Chief Editor of the journal "International Review of Atomic and Molecular Physics" and the Editor-in-Chief of the Physical Sciences section of the journal "Foundations".
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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Debye screening of circular Rydberg states of hydrogenic systems in collinear
electric and magnetic fields of arbitrary strengths
3. Two-electron Rydberg atoms and ions: counterintuitive analytical results on the
shape of their spectral lines
4. Helium atoms and helium-like ions in the high-frequency laser field
5. Classical Analytical Description of Negative Hydrogen Ions (to include the
6. Radio lines emitted by Rydberg hydrogen atoms in the Universe: classical
calculations of new data for their Stark broadening
7. Oscillatory-Precessional Motion of a Rydberg Electron around a Polar Molecule
(plus the effect of a magnetic field - to be studied)
8. The possibility of measuring nuclear shapes by using spectral lines of muonic ions
9. Muonic-electronic helium and helium-like ions
9.1. Classical analytical solution
9.2. Counterintuitive possibility of the linear Stark effect
10. Rydberg States of Positive Muonic Hydrogen Ion and Negative Muonic
Antihydrogen Ion
11. One-electron Rydberg quasimolecules
