This book grew out of a graduate course given in the Physics Department of the City College of New York for the first time during the 1976-1977 academic year an

In response to the explosion of theories and experiments since the appearance of the first edition, the author has revised and expanded his basic text. New sect

A thorough introduction to the interaction of atoms with optical and magnetic fields; for graduate students and researchers.

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