Prerequisites: CHEM 113 or equivalent; or PHYS 156A and PHYS 156B; or consent of instructor
Description: Theoretical and experi- mental techniques of atom physics. Fine structure and spin-orbit coupling in single-electron atoms; angular momentum coupling and magnetic moments in many-electron atoms; Hartree-Fock solution to many-electron problem; hyperfine structure; atoms in magnetic, electric, and coherent electromagnetic fields; the two-level atom; electron spin resonance spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic resonance spec- troscopy; laser spectroscopy; fundamentals of chemi- cal bonding in molecules.