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Online Books

• Wikibooks: Physics
• The NET Aadvance of Physics- Review Articles and Tutorials in an Encyclopædic Format.

Below is an "incomplete" list of some of the articles and book that we find to be particularly useful or important. The following referencs are good places to look to learn more about the things we care about in QuOM Lab.

Experimental Techniques

General

• J. H. Moore, C. C. Davis, and M. A. Coplan, Building Scientific Apparatus - a practical guide to design and construction, Perseus Books (4th ed, 2009).
• A. Melissions and J. Napolitano, Experiments in Modern Physics, Academic Press (2nd ed, 2003).
• J. R. Taylor, An Introduction to Error Analysis, University Science Books (2nd ed, 1997)

Low-temperature techniques

• G. Ventura and L. Risegari, The Art of Cryogenics - Low-Temperature Experimental Techniques, Elsevier (2008).
• J. W. Ekin, Experimental Techniques for Low-Temperature Measurements, Oxford University Press (2006).
• C. Enss and S. Hunklinger, Low-Temperature Physics, Springer, 2005 (online book) .
• G. K. White and P. J. Meeson, Experimental Technques in Low-Temperature Physics, Oxford University Press (2002).
• R. C. Richardson and E. N. Smith, Experimental Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics at Low Temperatures, Addison-Wesley (1988).

Electronics

• P. Horowitz and W. Hill, The Art of Electronics, 2nd Ed., Cambridge University Press (1989).

Optics and Optoelectronics

• P. C. C. Hobbs, Building Electro-Optical Systems: making it all work , Wiley-Interscience (2nd ed, 2009).

Condensed Matter

• Theoretical Condensd Matter Physics Literature, by A. Melikidze (2002). (online link)
• P. Nozieres and D. Pines, The Theoryof Quantum Liquids, Perseus Books (Advanced Book Classics Reprint 1999)
• A. L. Fetter and J. D. Walecka, Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems, McGraw-Hill (1971)
• L. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari, Bose-Einstein Condensation, Oxford Science Publications (2003).
• A. J. Leggett, Quantum Liquids, Oxford University Press (2006).

Optics and Quantum Optics

Optics

• J. Peatross and M Ware, Physics of Light and Optics. A free texbook for adavnced undergradaute and beginning graduate students in .pdf format. (online book)

Quantum Optics

• H.-A. Bachor and T. C. Ralph, A Guide to Experiments in Quantum Optics, Wiley-VCH, (2nd ed, 2003) .
• J. R. Kaluder and E. G. G. Sudarshan, Fundamentals of Quantum Optics (1968) (Dover reprint 2006).
• L. Mandel and E. Wolf, Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics, Cambridge University Press (1995) .
• R. Loudon, The Quantum Theory of Light, Oxford Science Publications (3rd ed, 2000).
• C. W. Gardiner and P. Zoller, Quantum Noise, Springer (3rd ed, 2004).
• R. J. Galuber, Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence - selected papers and lectures, Wiley-VCH (2007).

Theoretical and Computational Physics

• G. B. Arfken and H. J. Weber, Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Academic Press (6th ed, 2005).
• Numerical Recipes - The Art of Scientific Computing (3rd ed) (online link)

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