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Modern Developments in Atomic and Molecular Physics

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Over the last few years, several very interesting new developments in atomic and molecular physics were initiated that have considerably widened our understanding of the interaction of light with matter and opened new possibilities for many applications. In this chapter we will briefly discuss some of the experiments that have pushed forward these developments.

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Demtröder, W. (2018). Modern Developments in Atomic and Molecular Physics. In: Atoms, Molecules and Photons. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55523-1_12

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