Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Preface

Chapter 1. Ultracold Few-Body Systems

1 Introduction

2 Interactions in Ultracold Gases

3 Efimov Physics in Ultracold Quantum Gases

4 Beyond the Efimov Scenario

5 Other Three-Body Systems Relevant for Cold Atom Physics

6 Outlook

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 2. Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

1 Introduction

2 General Formalisms

3 Expansions of Trapped Particles

4 Transport

5 Internal State engineering

6 Wavepacket Splitting

7 Discussion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 3. Excitons and Cavity Polaritons for Optical Lattice Ultracold Atoms

1 Introduction

2 Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Lattice as Artificial Crystals

3 Excitons in Optical Lattices

4 Cavity QED with Excitons: Polaritons

5 Optical Lattices with Defects: Beyond the Mott Insulator State

6 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 4. Quantum Science and Metrology with Mixed-Species Ion Chains

1 Introduction

2 Normal Modes of Mixed-Species Chains

3 Sympathetic Cooling

4 Re-Ordering Ions of Different Mass

5 Quantum Logic Readout

6 Quantum Computation

7 Quantum State Engineering

8 Molecular Cooling and Control

9 Outlook

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 5. Limits to Resolution of CW STED Microscopy

1 Introduction

2 Theory

3 Experiment Setup

4 Results

5 Summary and Outlook

Acknowledgments

Appendix A Confocal Resolution

Appendix B Debye Diffraction Integral

Appendix C Optimal Filling of the Objective

References

Chapter 6. Ultrafast High Power and Stabilized Semiconductor Diode Lasers—Physics, Techniques, and Applications in Coherent Signal Processing

1 Introduction

2 Background Physics

3 Experimental Configurations for Mode-Locked Semiconductor Diode Lasers

4 Applications

5 Summary, Concluding Remarks, and Future Directions

Acknowledgments

References

Index

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