The Hanle Effect and Level-Crossing Spectroscopy [E-Book] / edited by Giovanni Moruzzi, Franco Strumia.
I am most pleased and, in a way, I feel honored to write the Foreword for the book The Hanle Effect and Level-Crossing Spectroscopy, which covers such a very wide range of applications not only in the initial areas of atomic and molecular physics, but also in solid state physics, solar physics, lase...
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Personal Name(s): | Moruzzi, Giovanni, editor |
Strumia, Franco, editor | |
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Boston, MA :
Springer,
1991
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Physical Description: |
XVI, 371 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9781461538264 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4615-3826-4 |
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Physics of Atoms and Molecules
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- 1 The Hanle Effect and Level-Crossing Spectroscopy—An Introduction
- 1. Historical Survey
- 2. Classical Interpretation of the Hanle Effect
- 3. Quantum Mechanical Interpretation of the Hanle Effect
- 4. The Density Matrix Formalism for the Hanle Effect (Broad-Band Excitation)
- 5. Laser Excitation and Pressure-Induced Coherences
- 6. Nonzero-Field Level Crossing
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- Appendix. Magnetic Effects on the Polarization of Resonance Fluorescence (original work by Wilhelm Hanle, translated by G. Moruzzi)
- 2 The Hanle Effect and Atomic Physics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Spectroscopic Applications
- 3. Collisions
- 4. Hanle Effect in Strong Laser Fields
- References
- 3 The Hanle Effect and Level-Crossing Spectroscopy on Molecules
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Molecular Level-Crossing Signal
- 3. Comparison with Quantum Beat Experiments
- 4. Excitation of Molecules
- 5. Lifetime Investigations
- 6. Landé g-Factors
- 7. Electric-Field Level Crossing
- 8. Stark-Zeeman Recrossing and High-Field Level Crossing
- 9. Hanle Effect on NO2
- 10. Conclusion
- References
- 4 The Nonlinear Hanle Effect and Its Applications to Laser Physics
- 1. The Nonlinear Hanle Effect and Its Experimental Observation
- 2. Saturation Intensity and Saturated Linewidth
- 3. The Three-Level Case: Homogeneously Broadened Lines
- 4. The Three-Level Case: Doppler-Broadened Lines and the Rate Equations
- 5. The General Case
- 6. The Rate-Equation Approach to the Nonlinear Hanle Effect in Inhomogeneously Broadened Transitions
- 7. The Nonlinear Hanle Effect with a Gaussian Laser Beam
- 8. The Nonlinear Hanle Effect in Absorption
- 9. The Nonlinear Hanle Effect in Laser-Active Media
- References
- 5 Applications of the Hanle Effect in Solar Physics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Brief Review of the Properties of Solar Magnetic Fields
- 3. Overview of the Diagnostic Possibilities and Limitations of the Hanle Effect
- 4. Basic Theoretical Concepts for Applications in Astrophysics
- 5. Diagnostics of Magnetic Fields in Solar Prominences
- 6. Survey of Scattering Polarization on the Solar Disk
- 7. Diagnostics of Turbulent Magnetic Fields
- 8. Diagnostics of Magnetic Fields in the Chromosphere-Corona Transition Region and Above
- 9. Concluding Remarks
- References
- 6 Applications of the Hanle Effect in Solid State Physics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Hanle Effect on Free Electrons
- 3. The Hanle Effect on Excitons
- 4. The Hanle Effect on Impurity Centers
- 5. Summary
- References
- 7 Quantum Theory of the Hanle Laser and Its Use as a Metric Gravity Probe
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Model
- 3. Linear Theory
- 4. Nonlinear Theory
- 5. Vanishing of Diffusion Constant for the Relative Phase
- 6. Applications as a Metric Gravity Probe
- 7. Discussion and Summary
- References.