Intro -- STRUCTURE OF MATTER -- STRUCTURE OF MATTER -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The atom -- 2.1 Atomic states, mean field -- 2.2 Fine structure -- 2.3 Electric moments, polarizability -- 2.4 Thomas-Fermi atom -- 2.4.1 Thomas-Fermi equation -- 2.4.2 Linearized Thomas-Fermi theory -- 2.4.3 Quantum correction -- 2.4.4 Koopmans factor -- 2.4.5 Exchange energy -- 2.4.6 Giant dipole oscillations -- 2.4.7 Dipolar radiation, transitions -- 2.4.8 Anharmonicities and ionization -- 2.4.9 Ions -- 2.4.10 Local dynamics -- 3 Molecules -- 3.1 Born-Oppenheimer approximation -- 3.2 Molecular vibrations

3.3 Molecular rotations -- 3.4 Rotation-vibration coupling -- 3.5 Molecular terms -- 3.6 Jahn-Teller effect -- 3.7 Diatomic molecule -- 3.8 Pre-dissociation -- 4 Atomic Nucleus -- 4.1 Structure -- 4.2 Weizsacker mass formula -- 4.2.1 The generic nucleus -- 4.2.2 The virial theorem -- 4.2.3 Weizsacker's mass formula -- 4.2.4 Statistical equilibrium -- 4.3 Nuclear instabilities -- 4.4 Isotopic shift and ""chemical shift -- 4.5 Hyperfine splitting in atoms -- 4.6 Hyperfine splitting in molecules -- 5 Static Electric Fields -- 5.1 Of bound charges in electric fields -- 5.2 Introduction

5.3 Tunneling -- 5.4 Motion in a homogeneous field -- 5.5 Hydrogen atom -- 5.6 Quasi-classical approximation -- 5.7 Ionization -- 5.8 Heavy atoms, molecules and atomicclusters -- 6 Oscillating Electric Fields -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Ionization by low fields. Keldyshproblem -- 6.3 Fast ionization in strong fields -- 6.4 Alpha decay, proton emission -- 6.5 Charges scattered by laser pulses -- 6.6 Concluding remarks -- 7 Magnetic Field -- 7.1 Magnetic moments -- 7.2 Uniform magnetic field -- 7.3 Atom in magnetic field -- 7.4 Spin in magnetic field -- 7.5 Current density -- 8 Change of Parameters

8.1 Berry phase -- 8.2 Transitions by change of parameters -- 8.3 A few examples -- 8.4 Translations -- 8.5 Rotations -- 8.6 Concluding remarks -- 9 Stimulated MagneticResonance -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Zeeman splitting and transverseexcitation -- 9.3 Arbitrary orientation -- 9.4 Concluding remarks -- 10 Quantized ElectricalConductance -- 11 Coherence -- 11.1 Coherent domains -- 11.1.1 Introduction -- 11.1.2 Radiation field -- 11.1.3 Matter interacting with radiation -- 11.1.4 Coherence domains -- 11.1.5 Equations of motion -- 11.1.6 Elementary excitations of the coherencedomain

11.1.7 "Thermodynamics" of the coherent phase -- 11.1.8 Super-radiant phase transition -- 11.1.9 Conclusion -- 11.2 External field -- 11.2.1 Introduction -- 11.2.2 Coherent interaction -- 11.2.3 Stationary solutions -- 11.2.4 Polarization field -- 11.2.5 Concluding remarks -- 11.3 Classical external field -- 12 Chemical Cohesion -- 12.1 Chemical bond -- 12.2 Metallic clusters -- 12.3 Heitler-London theory -- 12.4 van de Waals force -- 13 Quantum Theory of Radiation -- 13.1 Electromagnetic radiation -- 13.2 Interaction with charges -- 13.3 Quantum transitions -- 13.4 Photon emission, fluorescence