Module 1: Atomic and molecular physics, 10 lectures, Ben SauerCollision physics at low temperature, 4 lectures, Misha Ivanov

Module 2:Laser cooling and trapping of neutrals, 8 lectures, Ed HindsCold molecules, 7 lectures, Mike Tarbutt

Review of hydrogen • gross structure• fine structure and perturbation theory• hyperfine structure

Structure of helium• central fields• direct and exchange integrals

Angular momentum• symmetry and transformation• rotations and angular momentum• addition of angular momentum• spherical tensors and Wigner-Eckart theorem• transitions

Atomic and molecular physics

Why bother? Rb: a two level atom

Doppler broadened

Doppler free

Textbooks

David J. Griffiths, Introduction to quantum mechanics, 2nd edition, 2005.Cohen-Tannoudji, Die, Laloë, Quantum mechanics (2 volumes, 1500 pages)Sakurai, Modern quantum mechanicsMerzbacher, Quantum mechanics

Woodgate, Elementary atomic structure

Zare, Angular momentumEdmonds, Angular momentum in quantum mechanicsWeissbluth, Atoms and molecules