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Perfect/Complete Scattering Experiments - Probing Quantum Mechanics on Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Coincidences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)
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Perfect/Complete Scattering Experiments - Probing Quantum Mechanics on Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Coincidences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)
Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 75
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The main goal of this book is to elucidate what kind of experiment
must be performed in order to determine the full set of independent
parameters which can be extracted and calculated from theory, where
electrons, photons, atoms, ions, molecules, or molecular ions may
serve as the interacting constituents of matter. The feasibility of
such perfect' and-or `complete' experiments, providing the complete
quantum mechanical knowledge of the process, is associated with the
enormous potential of modern research techniques, both, in
experiment and theory. It is even difficult to overestimate the
role of theory in setting of the complete experiment, starting with
the fact that an experiment can be complete only within a certain
theoretical framework, and ending with the direct prescription of
what, and in what conditions should be measured to make the
experiment `complete'. The language of the related theory is the
language of quantum mechanical amplitudes and their relative
phases. This book captures the spirit of research in the direction
of the complete experiment in atomic and molecular physics,
considering some of the basic quantum processes: scattering, Auger
decay and photo-ionization. It includes a description of the
experimental methods used to realize, step by step, the complete
experiment up to the level of the amplitudes and phases. The
corresponding arsenal includes, beyond determining the total cross
section, the observation of angle and spin resolved quantities,
photon polarization and correlation parameters, measurements
applying coincidence techniques, preparing initially polarized
targets, and even more sophisticated methods. The `complete'
experiment is, until today, hardly to perform. Therefore, much
attention is paid to the results of state-of-the-art experiments
providing detailed information on the process, and their comparison
to the related theoretical approaches, just to mention relativistic
multi-configurational Dirac-Fock, convergent close-coupling,
Breit-Pauli R-matrix, or relativistic distorted wave approaches, as
well as Green's operator methods. This book has been written in
honor of Herbert Walther and his major contribution to the field
but even to stimulate advanced Bachelor and Master students by
demonstrating that obviously nowadays atomic and molecular
scattering physics yields and gives a much exciting appreciation
for further advancing the field.
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