What are the fundamental properties of single atoms, ions, molecules, and photons? Once we combine them together, what are the laws governing emergent many-body phenomena such as superfluidity and magnetism? Can we create and study new states of matter that have never existed in nature before? And how can we exert control over quantum properties to engineer useful systems such as precise clocks, new sensors, fundamentally improved measurements, and new paradigms of quantum computation?Īt MIT, researchers trap and manipulate individual ions, photons, spins, and clouds of atoms and molecules. Pappalardo Fellowships show submenu for “Pappalardo Fellowships”Ītomic physics seeks to understand and control the quantum behavior of matter at the smallest scale.Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment.Research Areas show submenu for “Research Areas”.Mentoring Programs Information show submenu for “Mentoring Programs Information”.PhD in Physics, Statistics, and Data Science.For Graduate Students show submenu for “For Graduate Students”.For Undergraduate Students show submenu for “For Undergraduate Students”.Academic Programs show submenu for “Academic Programs”.Administration show submenu for “Administration”.The final chapter is devoted to charge independence and isospin in low-energy nuclear physics. This chapter ends with the application of the theory of thermonuclear reactions to the design of a thermonuclear power plant. The penultimate chapter deals with self-sustaining nuclear reactions, with particular reference to the nuclear physics of fission reactors and the nuclear aspects of stellar physics. The theory of nuclear reactions is discussed by highlighting the concepts of cross-section and resonance. Quantum mechanics is also used to treat nuclear decay in the next chapter. Spin and static electric and magnetic moments are then examined from the perspective of quantum mechanics rather than through the vector model of angular momentum. This book also discusses the nuclear periodic table, radioactivity, and unstable nuclear states as well as nuclear mass and nuclear binding energy.
This text consists of six chapters and begins with an introduction to nuclear physics, followed by a discussion on nuclear structure at a fairly basic level. The Fermi Golden Rule is given emphasis throughout. Nuclear Physics is concerned primarily with low-energy nuclear physics rather than high-energy or elementary particle physics, although examples from particle physics are used where appropriate.
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