TY - BOOK AU - Hertel,Ingolf V. AU - Schulz,Claus-Peter TI - Atoms, Molecules and Optical Physics 2: Molecules and Photons - Spectroscopy and Collisions T2 - Graduate Texts in Physics, SN - 9783662520444 (Pbk) U1 - 539 H4A 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Atoms KW - Electrodynamics KW - Microscopy KW - Optics KW - Physical chemistry KW - Physics KW - Spectroscopy KW - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics KW - Classical Electrodynamics KW - Physical Chemistry KW - Spectroscopy and Microscopy N1 - Laser, Light Beams and Light Pulses -- Coherence and Photons -- Diatomic Molecules -- Polyatimic Molecules -- Molecular Spectroscopy -- Basics of Atomic Collision Physics: Elastic Processes -- Inelastic Collissions - a First Overview -- Electron Impact Excitation and Ionization -- The Density Matrix - a First Approach -- Optical Bloch Equations -- Appendices N2 - This is the second volume of textbooks on atomic, molecular and optical physics, aiming at a comprehensive presentation of this highly productive branch of modern physics as an indispensable basis for many areas in physics and chemistry as well as in state of the art bio- and material-sciences. It primarily addresses advanced students (including PhD students), but in a number of selected subject areas the reader is lead up to the frontiers of present research. Thus even the active scientist is addressed. This volume 2 introduces lasers and quantum optics, while the main focus is on the structure of molecules and their spectroscopy, as well as on collision physics as the continuum counterpart to bound molecular states. The emphasis is always on the experiment and its interpretation, while the necessary theory is introduced from this perspective in a compact and occasionally somewhat heuristic manner, easy to follow even for beginners ER -