Contents and Additional References (Highlighted items are included in the Reader)

The articles in this Reader include reviews (including a number of Nobel lectures) on the topics that will be covered in class, several detailed research papers, and in some cases (e.g. parity nonconservation and Bose-Einstein condensation), also the original "discovery papers. " In one case (light-induced drift), we included a paper containing the original proposal for the effect. These papers are intended to give a glimpse of the intellectual excitement that has persisted in our field of experimental atomic physics at least as long as either of us can remember… The following pages list the contents of the Reader (highlighted), as well as suggestions for additional reading/reference. In some cases, lecture notes precede the reprints for a given topic. These are intended to give a brief "plain language " summary of the principal ideas that are developed in detail in the papers. Additional references, links to electronic publications and relevant web sites, homewor