Feenberg Medal Session: Surface and Superconductivity (L P Gor'kov) The Future Lies Ahead (P W Anderson) Strongly Correlated Systems and Phase Transitions: Quantum Matters: Physics Beyond Landau's Paradigms (T Senthil) Recent Applications of the DMRG Method (K Hallberg) Quantum Fluids and Solids: Monolayer Charged Quantum Films: A Quantum Simulation Study (K Wierschem & E Manousakis) Analysis of the Interatomic Potential of the Helium Systems (S Ujevic & S A Vitiello) Nuclear Physics and QCD: Quantum Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Systems (F Iachello) New Approaches to Strong Coupling Lattice QCD (S Chandrasekharan) Cold Atoms and Quantum Information: Superfluid Regimes in Degenerate Atomic Fermi Gases (G V Shlyapnikov) Bosons in Optical Lattices (S L Rolston) Complex Systems: Spin Textures and Random Fields in Dirty Quantum Hall Ferromagnets (J T Chalker) Dissipative Quantum Disordered Models (L F Cugliandolo) and other papers.
This volume comprises a collection of invited and selected contributions presented at the 16th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy in Palm Cove, Queensland, Australia, 13-18 July 2003. The papers report developments in laser spectroscopy and related areas including: new ultra-precise spectroscopic measurements based on optical frequency combs including tests of the stability of the fundamental constants; the first successful production of cold antihydrogen; the first realization of Bose-Einstein condensation in cesium and ytterbium; the behaviour of ultra-cold bosons and fermions in optical lattices; the production of ultra-cold cesium, helium and fermionic lithium molecules; the production and coherent transport of ultra-cold atoms in microtraps on the surface of chips; the implementation of one- and two-qubit quantum algorithms and experiments towards a scalable quantum computer based on trapped ions; and new medical applications of laser spectroscopy.