The Hydrogen Atom : Proceedings of the Symposium, Held in Pisa, Italy, June 30–July 2, 1988

Atomic hydrogen, the simplest of all stable atoms, has been a challenge to spectroscopists and theoreticians for many years. Here, as in similar systems like positronium, muonium and possibly helium, the accuracy of theoretical predictions is comparable to that of experimental measurements. Hence exciting confrontations are possible. This together with expected large experimental improvements explains the strong interest in the symposium held in Pisa in June-July 1988. The resulting book completely covers the precision spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen and hydrogen-like systems, and also discusses aspects of QED and the influence of strong fields. Front Matter....Pages I-XI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Hydrogen Atom (An Historical Account of Studies of Its Spectrum)....Pages 2-15 Interference of the Hydrogen Atom States (n=2)....Pages 16-29 Separated Oscillatory Field Measurement of the Lamb Shift in H, n=2....Pages 30-38 Hydrogen Spectroscopy and Fundamental Physics....Pages 39-48 Doppler-Free Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Rydberg States: Remeasurement of R ∞ ....Pages 49-60 Two-Photon Transitions Between Discrete States....Pages 61-67 Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Hydrogen 1S–2S....Pages 68-80 1S–2S Transition-Frequency Calibration....Pages 81-92 High Resolution Spectroscopy of Hydrogen....Pages 93-102 Trapped Atomic Hydrogen....Pages 103-111 Atomic Hydrogen in a Magnetic Trapping Field....Pages 112-122 Frequency Standards in the Optical Spectrum....Pages 123-133 Precision RF Spectroscopy of Circular Rydberg Atoms....Pages 134-142 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Laser Spectroscopy of Positronium and Muonium....Pages 144-152 Positronium Decay Rates....Pages 153-160 New Schemes for the Production and Spectroscopy of Positronium....Pages 161-170 Some Recent Advances in Muonium....Pages 171-181 Transitions in Muonic Helium Ions Induced by Laser Radiation....Pages 182-195 Positrons for Low Energy Antihydrogen Production....Pages 196-209 Antihydrogen by Positronium-Antiproton Interaction....Pages 210-210 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Antiprotonic Hydrogen....Pages 211-220 The Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Like Highly Ionised Atoms....Pages 221-237 Front Matter....Pages 239-239 The Bound State Problem in QED....Pages 240-246 Electron g — 2 and High Precision Determination of α ....Pages 247-256 General QED/QCD Aspects of Simple Systems....Pages 257-267 Search for Parity Nonconservation in Hydrogen....Pages 268-271 Front Matter....Pages 273-273 Multiphoton Transition to the Continuum of Atomic Hydrogen....Pages 274-279 Hydrogen in Strong DC and Low Frequency Electric Fields — One Dimensional Atoms....Pages 280-299 Hydrogen Atoms in Strong Magnetic Fields — in the Laboratory and in the Cosmos....Pages 300-310 Theory of Chaos in the Atomic Hydrogen....Pages 311-322 Quantum Chaos and the Hydrogen Atom in Strong Magnetic Fields....Pages 323-334 Highly Excited Hydrogen in Strong Microwaves: Experimental Tests for Classically Chaotic Semiclassical Dynamics and for Quantum Localization....Pages 335-343 Quasi-Landau Spectrum of the Chaotic Diamagnetic Hydrogen Atom....Pages 344-351 Back Matter....Pages 353-353 Precision Spectroscopy of Hydrogen: Fundamental Physics and Universal Constants Positronium, Muonium, and Other Hydrogen-Like Systems Quantum Electrodynamics and Beyond Hydrogen in Strong Fields and Chaos Index of Contributors.