Atom Optics: 33 (Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics) - Tapa dura

From the reviews:

"The book is well laid out and elegantly written."-The Physicist

"Atom optics today has reached maturity: It has become both wave (coherent) and nonlinear atom optics. Of course that expansion required generalization in a new book. Pierre Meystre has taken just such a generalist approach in his timely ATOM OPTICS. His were the pioneering works in atom optics; to get information from the first explorer is always most valuable to the reader ... Recommend[ed] to all strata of the physics community.”
–PHYSICS TODAY

"Pierre Meystre has taken ... a generalist approach in his timely Atom Optics. His were the pioneering works in atom optics; to get information from the first explorer is always most valuable to the reader. ... The circle of potential readers of the book is very wide – from graduate students to professors ... . I therefore recommend it to all strata of the physics community." (Vladilen Letokhov, Physics Today, November, 2002)

"Pierre Meystre is a theoretical physicist at the University of Arizona. His book entitled ‘Atom Physics’ is the first book published on the subject. ... This book is well laid out and elegantly written. I believe that this book, combined with Hal Metcalf’s ‘Laser Cooling and Trapping’, forms an excellent introduction at a postgraduate level to atom optics." (A. G. Truscott, The Physicist, Vol. 39 (4), 2002)