Mesoscopic Effects in Superconductors Quantum Modulation of Superconducting Junctions Superconducting Qubits Unconventional Superconductors Quantum Information Quantum Dots and Kondo Effects Quantum Wires Low-Dimensional Electrons Quantum Interference Coherence and Order in Exotic Materials.
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).
Good order is the foundation of all good things. E. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France , 1790 Josephson effect Superconductivity: A crash course The transition from the theoretical description of hypothetical building blocks of a quantum coherent device to something which can be actually fabricated and controlled is made much easier by the existence of superconductivity . This phenomenon, roughly speaking, allows a macroscopic quantum coherent flow of electrons in a sufficiently cold piece of an appropriate material by establishing a specific long-range order among them. Due to this one can, for example, use macroscopically different states of a superconductor as quantum states of a qubit, with the obvious advantage over “microscopically quantum” systems (like actual atoms) from the point of view of control, measurement and, last but not least, fabrication of structures with the desired parameters and on the desired scale. The phenomenon of superconductivity – the history of its discovery, experimental manifestations, theoretical explanation, open questions, relevance to other branches of physics, and technological applications – requires a thorough treatment, which can be found in any number of books. For our purposes Tinkham (2004) will provide more than sufficient background. We will not wander into the field of exotic/high-temperature superconductors for two simple reasons: the quantum coherent behaviour of the kind we need to realize qubits or other quantum coherent devices has not yet been properly and/or routinely achieved in these systems; and the fabrication of such devices is not yet reliable enough or even feasible.
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.