原子光学是近年来兴起的基于量子力学的物理学前沿领域，涉及原子物理、分子物理和量子光学等物理学分支。原子光学基础的建立可追溯到1929年，其深入的实验研究则是近几年的事。本书重点关注光在原子光学中的应用以及对光与原子相互作用的理解。全书包括基本概念、线性原子光学、非线性原子光学与量子原子光学四部分共13章，分别为：光作用于原子的力，原子冷却，原子束的准直与聚焦，原子折射，原子陷阱与腔，碰撞，（碰撞的）简单应用，多体理论回顾，物质波相干，玻色－爱因斯坦凝聚，原子激光，非线性混波，光波与物质波的混波。对于从事原子激光、原子捕获、玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚等领域研究的或尝试进入这些领域的研究人员，本书是一本系统的入门参考书。

Preface

Ⅰ General Concepts

 1 Light Forces on Atoms

1.1 Two-Level Atoms

1.2 Adiabatic Elimination

1.3 Dipole and Radiation Pressure Forces

1.4 Dissipation

 2 Atomic Cooling

2.1 Ray and Wave Atom Optics

2.2 Doppler Cooling

2.3 Sisyphus Cooling

2.4 Subrecoil Cooling

2.5 Evaporative Cooling

Ⅱ Linear Atom Optics

 3 Atomic Beam Collimation and Focusing

3.1 Collimation by Radiation Pressure Force

3.2 Focusing

3.3 Channeling by Standing Waves

3.4 Evanescent Field Mirrors

3.5 Focused Laser Beam Mirror

  4 Atomic Diffraction

4.1 Raman-Nath and Bragg Diffraction

  4.1.1 Raman-Nath Regime

  4.1.2 Bragg Regime

4.2 Stern-Gerlach Regime

4.3 Spontaneous Emission

4.4 Mechanical Gratings

4.5 Atom Interferometers

  5 Atomic Traps and Cavities

5.1 Magneto-Optical Traps

5.2 Magnetic Traps

  5.2.1 Quadrupole Traps

  5.2.2 Ioffe-Pritchard Traps

5.3 Optical Traps

5.4 Gravitational Cavities

5.5 Atomic Waveguides

Ⅲ Nonlinear Atom Optics

 6 Collisions

6.1 Near-Resonant Dipole-Dipole Interaction

6.2 Propagation Effects

 6.2.1 Free-Space-Like Regime

 6.2.2 Large Interatomic Separations, x/c >> F-1

6.3 s-Wave Scattering and Pseudopotentials

 6.3.1 s-Wave Scattering

 6.3.2 Pseudopotentials

 7 Simple Applications

7.1 Dipole-Dipole Interaction in an Atomic Cavity

 7.1.1 Momentum Selection Rules

 7.1.2 Energy Selection Rules

7.2 Atomic Diffraction by a SchrSdinger Field

Ⅳ Quantum Atom Optics

 8 Review of Manybody Theory

8.1 SchrSdinger Field Quantization

8.2 The Hartree Approximation

8.3 Quasiparticles

 9 Matter-Wave Coherence

9.1 Review of Optical Coherence Theory

9.2 Coherence of Matter Waves

9.3 Electronic Coherence

9.4 Density Coherence

 9.4.1 Multimode Density Correlations

  9.5 Field Coherence

 9.5.1 Higher-Order Correlations

 10 Bose-Einstein Condensation

10.1 Bose-Einstein Condensation in Free Space

10.2 Bose-Einstein Condensation in Traps

10.3 Experimental Realization in Alkali Vapors

10.4 Mean-Field Theory

10.5 Finite Temperatures

10.6 Coherence and Bose-Einstein Condensation

 10.6.1 Hartree Description

 10.6.2 Wave Packet Description

 10.6.3 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Description

 11 Atom Lasers

11.1 Experiments

11.2 Theory of a Binary-Collision Atom Laser

 11.2.1 Atom Number and Atom Statistics

 11.2.2 Linewidth

11.3 Matter-Wave Solitons

 11.3.1 Soliton Solutions of the Nonlinear Schr6dinger Equa tion

 11.3.2 Gap Solitons in Multicomponent Condensates

 11.3.3 Gap Soliton Control

 12 Nonlinear Wave Mixing

12.1 Stability of a Two-Component Condensate

12.2 Three-Component Spinor Condensate

 12.2.1 Hartree Ground State

 12.2.2 Spin Domains

 12.2.3 Exact ground state

12.3 Atomic four-wave mixing

12.4 Quantum Theory of Atomic Four-Wave Mixing

 12.4.1 Angular Momentum Representation

 12.4.2 Dynamics

 12.4.3 Quantum Correlations

 13 Mixing of Optical and Matter Waves

13.1 Parametric Amplification of Atomic and Optical Fields

13.2 Four-Wave Mixing

 13.2.1 Instability and Gain

 13.2.2 Entanglement between Atomic and Optical Fields

13.3 Matter-Wave Superradiance

13.4 Phase-Coherent Matter-Wave Amplification

References

Index