Atoms in plasmas

the long version

Atoms in Plasmas is concerned with radiative-collisional phenomena in neutral and ionized gases. Central to the studies is a "perturbed atom", that is, an atom under the influence of different perturbations in plasmas; for example, perturbations due to electrical and magnetic fields, fields of plasma oscillations, laser and Planck-radiation fields, collisions with charged particles, stochastic accelerations, etc. The treatment covers fundamental aspects of modern physics, such as atomic quantum mechanics and quantum optics, radiation and collisional processes in plasmas and gases, nonlinear laser spectroscopy, and plasma diagnostics.