Decoherence, Entanglement and Information Protection in Complex Quantum Systems

✍ Scribed by V. M. Akulin, G. Kurizki, S. Pellegrin (auth.), V.M. Akulin, A. Sarfati, G. Kurizki, S. Pellegrin (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 690
• Series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 189
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of articles on the contemporary status of quantum mechanics, dedicated to the fundamental issues of entanglement, decoherence, irreversibility, information processing, and control of quantum evolution, with a view of possible applications. It has multidisciplinary character and is addressed at a broad readership in physics, computer science, chemistry, and electrical engineering. It is written by the world-leading experts in pertinent fields such as quantum computing, atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics, and statistical physics.

✦ Table of Contents

Editorial Article....Pages 1-12
Quantum Ensembles and Quantum Informatics....Pages 15-16
Entanglement in Quantum Information Processing....Pages 17-26
Easy Control Over Fermionic Computations....Pages 27-32
Multiatom and Multiphoton Entanglement....Pages 35-39
On the Advanced Wave Model of Parametric Down-Conversion....Pages 41-48
Quantum Logics Based on Four-Photon Entanglement....Pages 49-62
Towards Quantum Control of Light: Shaping Quantum Pulses of Light via Coherent Atomic Memory....Pages 63-76
Deterministic Entanglement of Single Photons via Coherently Driven Atoms....Pages 77-90
Selective Control of High-Order Atomic Coherences....Pages 91-104
Strong Entanglement of Bright Light Beams in Controlled Quantum Systems....Pages 105-126
Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Protection from Decoherence....Pages 129-136
Coherence Protection by the Quantum Zeno Effect....Pages 137-174
Possible Implementation of Topologically Protected Qubits by a Novel Class of Josephson Junction Arrays....Pages 175-200
Coherence Protection Near Energy Gaps....Pages 201-222
Zeno and Anti-Zeno Dynamics....Pages 223-232
Non-Markovian Decay and Decoherence in Open Quantum Systems....Pages 235-238
The Varieties of Master Equations....Pages 239-280
Quantum Dynamics Effected by Repeated Measurements....Pages 281-306
Non-Exponential Motional Damping of Impurity Atoms in Bose-Einstein Condensates....Pages 307-314
Internal-Translational Entanglement and Interference in Atoms and Molecules....Pages 317-324
Atom-Mesoscopic Field Entanglement....Pages 325-328
Coherence and Decoherence Experiments with Fullerenes....Pages 329-352
Distant Entanglement of Macroscopic Gas Samples....Pages 353-372
Position and Momentum Entanglement of Dipole-Dipole Interacting Atoms in Optical Lattices....Pages 373-390
Investigation of Autler-Townes Effect in Sodium Dimers....Pages 391-394
Transition Steering via Space-Dependent Coupling....Pages 395-410
Coherence and Decoherence in Rydberg Gases....Pages 411-436
Schrödinger’s Cat States of Protons in Condensed Matter....Pages 439-444
Anomalous Neutron Inelastic Cross Sections at eV Energy Transfers....Pages 445-468
Quantum Entanglement and Decoherence Due to Coupling of Protons to Electronic Environment....Pages 469-482
Attosecond Effects in Scattering of Neutrons and Electrons from Protons....Pages 483-498
Macroscopic Quantum Entanglement in the KHCO 3 Crystal....Pages 499-528
Probing Short-Lived Entanglement with Inelastic X-ray Scattering....Pages 529-534
Proton-Proton Correlations in Condensed Matter....Pages 535-548
Is Fermi’s Golden Rule Always True for Compton Scattering?....Pages 549-554
On Correlation Approach to Scattering in the Decoherence Timescale....Pages 555-562
Coherence and Entanglement in Mesoscopic Systems....Pages 565-572
Probe Scattering by Fluctuating Multi-Atom Ensembles in Optical Lattices....Pages 573-580
Bose-Einstein Condensates with Laser-Induced Dipole-Dipole Interactions....Pages 581-588
Atom Optics with Bose-Einstein Condensation Using Optical Potentials....Pages 589-600
A Mesoscopic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer....Pages 601-604
Coherent Transport by Adiabatic Pumping....Pages 605-614
Zeno and Anti-Zeno Effects in Driven Josephson Junctions: Control of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling....Pages 615-622
Employment of Submicron YBA 2 CU 3 O 7-x Grain Boundary Junctions for the Fabrication of “ Quiet” Superconducting Flux-Qubits....Pages 623-633
Broken Symmetry and Coherence of Molecular Vibrations in Tunnel Transitions....Pages 635-676

✦ Subjects

Quantum Physics;Quantum Computing, Information and Physics;Complexity;Coherent Matter Waves, Quantum Gases;Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, Nonlinear Optics