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Papers from a July 2003 conference reflect recent research in laser spectroscopy related to ultra-precise spectroscopic measurements on atoms and molecules, the production of cold anti-hydrogen, and the behavior of ultra-cold bosons and fermions in optical lattices. Material is organized in sections on precision spectroscopy, ultrafast spectroscopy, quantum degenerate gases, cold molecules and cold collision, atom optics and interferometry, cavity QED, quantum optics and quantum information, novel applications and new laser sources, and medical applications. There is no subject index.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Description
This volume comprises a collection of invited and selected contributions presented at the 16th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy in Palm Cove, Queensland, Australia, 13–18 July 2003. The papers report the latest and most exciting developments in laser spectroscopy and related areas: new ultra-precise spectroscopic measurements based on optical frequency combs including tests of the stability of the fundamental constants; the first realization of Bose–Einstein condensation in cesium and ytterbium; the behavior of ultra-cold bosons and fermions in optical lattices; the production of ultra-cold cesium, helium and fermionic lithium molecules; the production and coherent transport of ultra-cold atoms in microtraps on the surface of chips; the implementation of one- and two-qubit quantum algorithms and experiments towards a scalable quantum computer based on trapped ions; and new medical applications of laser spectroscopy.