@inbook{doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/3527603417.ch15, author = {Mudrich, M. and Kraft, S. and Singer, K. and Mosk, A. and Weidemüller, M. and Binder, Ch. and Rumpf, K. and Wippel, V. and Windholz, L. and Freegarde, Tim and Dholakia, Kishan and Evers, Jörg and Keitel, Christoph H. and Mistrik, Ivan and Helm, Hanspeter and Jung, R and Gerlach, S and von Oppen, G. and Eichmann, U. and Pohl, T. and Pattard, T. and Rost, J.-M. and Reetz-Lamour, M. and Tscherneck, M. and Föiling, S. and Weidemüller, M. and Walther, Thomas}, publisher = {John Wiley & Sons, Ltd}, isbn = {9783527603411}, title = {A. Interactions in Trapped Atomic Gases}, booktitle = {Interactions in Ultracold Gases}, chapter = {15}, pages = {377-406}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/3527603417.ch15}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/3527603417.ch15}, eprint = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/3527603417.ch15}, year = {2003}, keywords = {trapped atomic gases, interactions}, abstract = {Summary This chapter contains sections titled: Thermodynamics in an Ultracold Mixture of Optically Trapped Atomic Gases Cross-section for Collisions of Ultracold 7Li with Na Tailoring Cavity-Enhanced Light Fields for Cold Atom Manipulation Narrow Spectral Features in Resonance Fluorescence in Laser-Driven Atomic Few-Level Systems Dynamics of Excitation in a Dense Cloud of Cold Rydberg Atoms Photoexcitation and lonization of Cold Metastable Helium Atoms lonization and Recombination Dynamics of an Expanding Ultracold Rydberg Gas Towards an Ultracold Dense Gas of Rydberg Atoms Prospects of Trapping Neutral Mercury: Formation of Vibrationally Cold Molecules and Entanglement of Atoms} }