Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems

Book excerpt: Recent progress with precision physics of simple atoms / S.G. Karshenboim, V.B. Smirnov -- Part I. The hydrogen atom: Coulomb green function and its applications in atomic theory / L.N. Labzowsky, D.A. Solovyev -- Part II. Muonic and exotic atoms and nuclear effects: Atomic cascade and precision physics with light muonic and hadronic atoms / T.S. Jensen, V.E. Markushin -- The structure of light nuclei and its effect on precise atomic measurements / J.L. Friar -- Deeply bound pionic states as an indicator of chiral symmetry restoration / T. Yamazaki -- Part III. Hydrogen-like ions: Virial relations for the dirac equation and their applications to calculations of hydrogen-like atoms / V.M. Shabaev -- Lamb shift experiments on high-Z one-electron systems / T. Stöhlker, D. Banaś, H. Beyer, A. Gumberidze -- Part IV. Testing quantum electrodynamics: Simple atoms, quantum electrodynamics, and fundamental constants / S.G. Karshenboim -- Resent results and current status of the muon (g-2) experiment at BNL / S.I. Redin [and others] -- Part V. Precision mearuements and fundamental constants: Single ion mass spectrometry at 100 ppt and beyond / S. Rainville, J.K. Thompson, D.E. Pritchard -- Current status of the problem of cosmological variability of fundamental physical constants / D.A. Varshalovich, A.V. IVANCHIK, A.V. Orlov, A.Y. Potekhin.