Polarization and Correlation Phenomena in Atomic Collisions: A Practical Theory Course

1. Density Matrix and Statistical Tensors.- 2. Production of Polarized States.- 3. Decay of Polarized States.- 4. Resonant and Two-Step Processes.- 5. Complements.- A.1. Pauli Matrices.- A.2. Legendre Polynomials and Associated Legendre Polynomials.- A.3. Spherical Harmonics.- A.4. Bipolar spherical harmonics.- A.5. Solid Spherical Harmonics.- A.6. Rotations and Wigner D-Functions.- A.7. Irreducible Tensor Operators.- A.8. Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients.