Quantum Coherence Between States with Even and Odd Numbers of Electrons (A F Andreev) Electron Spin in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (P E Lindelof et al.) Superfluidity and Coherence in Bose-Einstein Condensates (W Ketterle) Jahn-Teller Bipolarons and Their Condensation (K A Muller) Probing Quantum Mechanics Towards the Everyday World: Where Do We Stand? (A J Leggett) The Question of Phase in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (S Stenholm) Experiments with d-Wave Superconductors (J Mannhart et al.) Noise and Decoherence in Quantum Two-Level Systems (A Shnirman et al.) Coherent Manipulations of Charge-Number States in a Cooper-Pair Box (Y Nakamura et al.) Quiet Readout of Superconducting Flux States (J Clarke et al.) and other papers.
Quantum Coherence Between States with Even and Odd Numbers of Electrons (A F Andreev) Electron Spin in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (P E Lindelof et al.) Superfluidity and Coherence in Bose-Einstein Condensates (W Ketterle) Jahn-Teller Bipolarons and Their Condensation (K A Muller) Probing Quantum Mechanics Towards the Everyday World: Where Do We Stand? (A J Leggett) The Question of Phase in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (S Stenholm) Experiments with d-Wave Superconductors (J Mannhart et al.) Noise and Decoherence in Quantum Two-Level Systems (A Shnirman et al.) Coherent Manipulations of Charge-Number States in a Cooper-Pair Box (Y Nakamura et al.) Quiet Readout of Superconducting Flux States (J Clarke et al.) and other papers.
Quantum Coherence Between States with Even and Odd Numbers of Electrons (A F Andreev) Electron Spin in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (P E Lindelof et al.) Superfluidity and Coherence in Bose-Einstein Condensates (W Ketterle) Jahn-Teller Bipolarons and Their Condensation (K A Muller) Probing Quantum Mechanics Towards the Everyday World: Where Do We Stand? (A J Leggett) The Question of Phase in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (S Stenholm) Experiments with d-Wave Superconductors (J Mannhart et al.) Noise and Decoherence in Quantum Two-Level Systems (A Shnirman et al.) Coherent Manipulations of Charge-Number States in a Cooper-Pair Box (Y Nakamura et al.) Quiet Readout of Superconducting Flux States (J Clarke et al.) and other papers.
Preface. Opening address (H. Fukuyama). Welcome address (K. Miyauchi). Quantum Computing, Quantum Teleportation, and Entanglement. Decoherence and recoherence in quantum computation (D.P. DiVincenzo, A. Ekert). Engineering entanglement between atoms and photons in a cavity: non-locality, Schrodinger cats and decoherence (S. Haroche). Three-and four-photon correlations and entanglement: quantum teleportation and beyond (A. Zeilinger). Quantum manipulations of small Josephson junctions and the measurement process performed with a single-electron transistor (A. Shnirman, Y. Makhlin, G. Schon). Extraction of NMR quantum computation signal with parity gate (M. Kitagawa). Quantum logical diagram of quantum computing evolution (H. Matsuda, D.W. Cohen). A generalized EPR problem and quantum teleportation (A. Motoyoshi et al.). Purification of multi-particle entanglement (M. Murao et al.). Quantum Information and Cryptography. Quantum cryptography and magic protocols (N. Imoto, M. Koashi, K. Shimizu). Quantum entanglement for secret sharing and telesplitting (A. Karlsson et al.). Communication channels secured from hidden eavesdropping via transmission of entangled photon pairs (K. Shimizu, N. Imoto). Quantum communication of bits by the polarization of photons (M. Matsuoka, T. Yamamoto, A. Motoyoshi). Optimal broadcasting of quantum information via teleportation (M. Murao et al.). Semiconductor-based quantum information: noiseless encoding in quantum-dot arrays (P. Zanardi, F. Rossi). Quantum Optics. Quantum information enabled by quantum optics (H.J. Kimble). Manipulation of quantum statistics in mesoscopic experiments (Y. Yamamoto). Extension of nonlocal response theory to Raman process (H. Ajiki, K. Cho). Quantum Maxwell-Bloch equations for spontaneous emission in semiconductor lasers (O. Hess, H.F. Hofmann). Quantum control of atomic systems by time-resolved homodyne detection of spontaneous emission (H. F. Hofmann et al.). Laser Cooling, Ion Trapping, and Atom Interferometry. Quantum computation, spectroscopy of trapped ions, and Schrodinger's cat (D.J. Wineland et al.). Atom interferometry (F. Shimizu). Multiple atomic beam interference in the Ramsey-Borde interferometer with multiple traveling laser beams (A. Morinaga, T. Aoki). Sympathetically laser-cooled mass spectroscopy using Ba+ ions (I. Waki, T. Baba, D. Wang). Bose-Einstein Condensation. Measurements of relative phase and quantum beat note between Bose-Einstein condensates (D.S. Hall et al.). Probing quantum statistical mechanics with Bose gases: nontrivial order parameter topology from a Bose-Einstein quench (J.R. Anglin, W.H. Zurek). Nonequilibrium time evolution of the condensed state of a fixed number of interacting bosons (A. Shimizu, J. Inoue, T. Miyadera). Macroscopic quantum tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interaction: fate of a false vacuum (M. Ueda). Collective excitations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate: a variational sum-rule approach (T. Kimura, H
Quantum Theory Without Measurement (H G Kummel) A Tribute to John Walter Clark on his 70th Birthday (C E Campbell) The Physics of Liquid Para-Hydrogen (T Lindenau et al.) Bose-Einstein Condensation in Bulk and Confined Solid Helium (L Reatto et al.) Thermal Entanglement in Spin Systems (N Canosa & R Rossignoli) Exact BCS Solution in the BCS-BEC Crossover (J Dukelsky et al.) Information Geometry and Phase Transitions (M Portesi et al.) Quantum Fluids in Nanopores (N M Urban & M W Cole) Nucleation of Vortices in Thin Superconducting Disks (M B Sobnack et al.) Coupled-Cluster Theory for Nuclei (T Papenbrock et al.) and other papers.
Quantum Optics. Dressed fermion vs. dressed boson: Semiconductor cavity QED in high-Q regimes (Y. Yamamoto et al. ). Two-photon 'ghost'image and interference-diffraction (Y.H.Shih et al. ). Femtosecond coherent control and decoherence of excitons (A.P. Heberle et al. ). Precise Measurements. Applications of laser cooling and trapping to precision measurements and polymer physics (B. Young et al. ). Cooling and detection of molecules using laser-cooled atoms (T. Baba, I. Waki). The quantum mechanics of trapped ions (R.J. Glauber). Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena. Quantum nucleation (T. Satoh, S.N. Burmistrov). Theory of macroscopic quantum nucleation in quantum fluid (Y. Kanno et al. ). Dynamics of vortices (G. Blatter). Single Electronics. Single electron charging effects in mesoscopic systems (S. Kobayashi). Synchronous single-electron transfer at room temperature (K. Yano et al. ). Metal-insulator transition induced by the field effect of control gates (K. Katayama et al. ). Mesoscopic Semiconductors. Coherent phonon dephasing in semiconductor heterostructures (D.A. Williams, J.J. Baumberg). Coherent destruction of tunneling in resonant tunneling diodes driven by a strong electric laser field (M. Wagner). Energy-recovery in field-coupled quantum dot resistors (F. Yamaguchi et al. ). Superconductors and Squid. Direct demonstration of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in a mesoscopic superconductor (M. Matters et al. ). Macroscopic quantum tunneling in a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction (H. Takayanagi, H. Nakano). Photon assisted resonant tunneling between macroscopically distinct quantum states of a SQUID (R. Rouse et al. ). Mesoscopic Normal Metals. New measurements of the magnitude of the persistent current in normal metal systems (P. Mohanty et al. ). Electron systems at the borderline to magnetism (G. Bergmann, H. Beckmann). Mesoscopic Magnets. Mesoscopic effects in magnetism: Single particle measurements (B. Barbara et al. ). Decoherence in macroscopic quantum phenomena in magnetic particles (A. Garg). Complex Systems. Universal correlations in random Hamiltonian (A. Zee). Nature of coherence in globally coupled chaotic systems - An extended abstract (K. Kaneko). Quantum Information and Gravity. Quantum information and information loss in general relativity (G. 't Hooft). Quantum landscape of a black hole (A. Hosoya). Fundamental Problems. Vector potentials, gauge field and connection on a fiber bundle (C.N. Yang). Varieties of quantum measurement (W.G. Unruh). Closing Address. Closing address (S. Nakajima).
As we all know, single microscopic particles such as electrons or atoms do not behave according to the familiar classical (Newtonian) physics which describes the everyday world, but rather according to the prescriptions of quantum mechanics, the outcome is often bizarre and counterintuitive. When a macroscopic number of such particles (say ∼ 10) is assembled under conditions where the effects of quantum mechanics are important, the results can be even more spectacular; they include macroscopic phenomena such as superfluidity and superconductivity, which are completely impossible to explain in classical terms. Most, though not all of these exotic phenomena, are a result of a phenomenon which I shall refer to generically as “quantum condensation,” in which a macroscopic number of particles or pairs of particles—a nonzero fraction of all particles present—occupy a single quantum state; this phenomenon is traditionally referred to as Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) when it occurs in a system of bosons such as liquid He, and as Cooper pairing when it occurs, for pairs of particles, in a system of fermions such as the electrons in a superconducting metal. As a result of quantum condensation, the characteristically quantum-mechanical behavior which we are used to seeing at the level of single electrons is as it were amplified by the cooperation of condensed particles and can manifest itself at the macroscopic level. The present essay is intended as a general introduction to the subject of quantum condensation and its consequences, as manifested in a variety of physical systems. I will try to review the fundamental physical ideas, usually without de-
Coherence in an atom interferometer - longitudinal and transverse, D. Pritchard a fully quantum treatment of molecular beam resonance - creation and detection of longitudinal momentum coherences, R.A. Rubenstein coherence of Bose-condensates in atomic gases, M.R. Andrews neutrino oscillations - a two-level system example, E. Sassaroli coherence and fluctuations in particle-field interactions, B.L. Hu time crystals, Y. Srivastava Greenberger-Horne-Zellinger experiment on mixed states, S. Lloyd Einstein acausality with application to laboratory systems, A. Widom. (Part contents).