Atomic and Molecular Physics

Catalog description

The course provides a description of the many-electron atoms and molecules and their interaction with electromagnetic fields. Topics to be covered are: helium and multielectron atom, Mean-Field approach, fine structure and Lamb shift, hyperfine structure and magnetic fields, two-state systems: resonance, interaction of an atom with an electromagnetic field, diatomic molecules, molecular bonding and orbitals, molecular rotational and vibrational spectra, electron spectra of molecules, Franck-Condon principle.