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Volume I of the second edition, subtitled Semi-Classical Concepts, presents x-ray science through the semi-classical framework of light and matter. The opening chapter, Introduction and Overview, remains largely unchanged from the first edition. [...]

Introduction and Overview -- Production of X-Rays: From Virtual to Real Photons -- From Electromagnetic Waves to Photons -- Brightness and Coherence -- The Complete Description of Light: Higher Order Coherence -- Semi-Classical Response of Atoms to Electromagnetic Fields

"Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize the total amount of reward it receives while interacting with a complex, uncertain environment. In Reinforcement Learning, Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the field's key ideas and algorithms."

Introduction -- Classical and Quantum Ideal Gases -- Gross-Pitaevskii Model of the Condensate -- Waves and Solitons -- Superfluid Helium -- Vortices and Rotation -- Two-component, Dipolar and Polariton Condensates -- Quantum droplets -- Vortex dynamics in two and three dimensions -- Two-dimensional turbulence -- Three dimensional turbulence -- Appendix A: Simulating the 1D GPE with Matlab -- Appendix B: Simulating the 2D GPE with Python -- Subject index