The hydrogen atom : precision physics of simple atomic systems

Introduction to Simple Atoms....Pages 1-14
Precision Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen....Pages 17-41
Ultracold Hydrogen....Pages 42-56
Review of High Precision Theory and Experiment for Helium....Pages 57-78
Spectroscopy of the Muonium Atom....Pages 81-102
Experimental Tests of QED in Positronium: Recent Advances....Pages 103-121
A New Type of Frequency Chain and Its Application to Fundamental Frequency Metrology....Pages 125-144
Fundamental Constants and the Hydrogen Atom....Pages 145-156
Present Status of g — 2 of Electron and Muon....Pages 157-175
Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Like and Helium-Like Ions....Pages 179-203
The g Factor of Hydrogenic Ions: A Test of Bound State QED....Pages 204-220
Elementary Relativistic Atoms....Pages 223-245
Antiprotonic Helium — An Exotic Hydrogenic Atom....Pages 246-265
Towards a Precise Measurement of the He + 2S Lamb Shift....Pages 303-313
High Precision Measurements on Helium at 1083 nm....Pages 314-327
Absolute Frequency Measurement of the 1S-3S Transition in Hydrogen....Pages 328-334
2s Hyperfine Structure in Hydrogen Atom and Helium-3 Ion....Pages 335-343
Three-Loop Slope of the Dirac Form Factor and the 1S Lamb Shift in Hydrogen....Pages 344-351
Radiative Decay of Coupled States in an External dc Field....Pages 352-355
Atomic Interferometer and Coherent Mixing of 2S and 2P States in the Hydrogen Atom....Pages 356-362
Ground State Energy of the Helium Atom....Pages 363-372
Two-Loop Corrections to the Decay Rate of Orthopositronium....Pages 375-386
Recent Results in Positronium Theory....Pages 387-396
Test of CPT and Lorentz Invariance from Muonium Spectroscopy....Pages 397-406
Positronium: Theory Versus Experiment....Pages 407-418
Highly Accurate Theoretical Simulation of the Resonant Multiphoton Ionization Processes With Simplest Atoms....Pages 419-431
Time-of-Flight Spectroscopy of Muonic Hydrogen Atoms and Molecules....Pages 435-445
Hyperfine Structure in Muonic Hydrogen....Pages 446-453
Towards a Measurement of the Lamb Shift in Muonic Hydrogen....Pages 454-466
Antihydrogen Production and Precision Spectroscopy with ATHENA/AD-1....Pages 469-488
Precision Spectroscopy of X-rays from Antiprotonic Hydrogen....Pages 489-499
Charged Pion Mass Determination and Energy — Calibration Standards Based on Pionic X-ray Transitions....Pages 500-507
Pionic Hydrogen: Status and Outlook....Pages 508-516
Antiprotonic Helium “Atomcule”: Relativistic and QED Effects....Pages 517-520
Towards Laser Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen....Pages 521-527
Hyperfine Structure Measurements of Antiprotonic Helium and Antihydrogen....Pages 528-542
Indium Single-Ion Optical Frequency Standard....Pages 545-553
Matter Neutrality Test Using a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer....Pages 554-563
Relativistic Corrections in Atoms and Space-Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant....Pages 564-575
Frequency Comparison and Absolute Frequency Measurement of I 2 -stabilized Lasers at 532 nm....Pages 576-588
A QED Calculation of Electron Interaction for He-Like and Li-Like Highly Charged Ions....Pages 591-604
The gJ Factor of an Electron Bound in Hydrogen-Like Carbon: Status of the Theoretical Predictions....Pages 605-618
Second-Order Self-Energy Calculations for Tightly Bound Electrons in Hydrogen-Like Ions....Pages 619-636
Lamb Shift in Light Hydrogen-Like Atoms....Pages 637-650
The g Factor of a Bound Electron in a Hydrogen-Like Atom....Pages 651-663
Laser Spectroscopy of the 2S Lamb Shift in Hydrogenic Silicon....Pages 664-671
Ground-State Hyperfine Structure of Heavy Hydrogen-Like Ions....Pages 672-678
Measurement of the 1s2p 3 P 0 - 3 P 1 Fine Structure Interval in Helium-Like Magnesium....Pages 679-687
Towards a Precision Measurement of the Lamb Shift in Hydrogen-Like Nitrogen....Pages 688-698
Absolute Test of Quantum Electrodynamics for Helium-Like Vanadium....Pages 699-713
Relativistic Recoil Corrections to the Atomic Energy Levels....Pages 714-726
X-Ray Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Like Ions in an Electron Beam Ion Trap....Pages 727-736
CPT-Invariant Eight-Component Two-Fermion Equation....Pages 739-745
The Two-Time Green’s Function and Screened Self-Energy for Two-Electron Quasi-Degenerate States....Pages 746-752
Higher-Order Stark Effect on Magnetic Fine Structure of the Helium Atom....Pages 753-761
Radiation Properties of Diamagnetic Manifolds in Atomic Hydrogen: Line Intensity Dependence on a Magnetic Field....Pages 762-775
Precise Evaluation of the Electron ( g - 2) at 4 loops: The Algebraic Way....Pages 776-783
Relativistic Dipole Dynamic Polarizabilities of Lowest ns 1/2 -States in Hydrogen-Like Atoms....Pages 784-799
Loop-After-Loop Contribution to the Second-Order Self-Energy in Hydrogen....Pages 800-809