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The field of atomic, molecular, and optical physics is the oldest part of modern physics, and yet
it provides the foundation upon which all the rest is built. The previous edition of the Springer
Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics was published in 2005, which was the
International Year of Physics celebrating the Annus mirabilis of Einstein exactly 100 years
earlier. 2005 also marked another in a long sequence of Nobel Prizes awarded for work in the
area of AMO physics, this time to Roy Glauber, John Hall, and Ted Hänsch for their work on
quantum optics and high-precision measurement. The sequence continued with the 2012 prize
being awarded to Serge Haroche and DavidWineland for their work on measuring and manipulating
individual quantum systems, and the 2018 prize to Arthur Askin for the development of
optical tweezers, and Gérard Mourou and Donna Srickland for high-intensity ultrashort laser
pulses. Most recently, the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2022 was awarded jointly to Alain Aspect,
John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the
violation of Bell inequalities, and pioneering quantum information science. The 2015 Prize
for neutrino oscillations and the 2017 Prize for gravitational waves also made essential use
of the techniques of AMO physics for their success. 2015 was also the International Year of
Light, where the ever-expanding power and versatility of lasers played a prominent role; this
continues to provide a unifying theme for much of AMO physics.
The intent of this Handbook is to provide a ready reference for the principal ideas, techniques,
and results that are common to all these areas of research where exciting advances
continue apace. The success of the previous 2005 edition and advances in the field provide
the motivation for the current revised edition, with the expectation that it will continue as a
standard reference source for the field.