The Physics of Communication: Proceedings of the Xxii Solvay Conference on Physics Delphi Lamia, Greece 24 - 29 November 2001

by Antoniou, I.; Sadovnichii, V. A.; Walther, Hansjoachim; SOLVAY CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS 2001 DELPH; Sadovnichii, V. A.; Walther, Hansjoachim

• ISBN13: 9789812384492
• ISBN10: 9812384499
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Readership: Researchers, lecturers and PhD students in atomic physics, condensed matter physics and optics.

Table of Contents

Contributors to the Proceedings of the XXII Solvay Conference on Physics
Administrative Council of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry
Scientific Committee of Physics of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry
Honorary Committee
Hellenic Scientific Committee and Local Organising Committee
The Solvay Conferences on Physics
Preface
Prologue
First Solvay Conference
Opening Address
Opening Remarks
Challenges in Ambient Intelligence
Stochasticity and Time Symmetry Breaking in Hamiltonian Dynamics	p. 1
Preservation of a T-Invariant Reductionist Scaffold in "Effective" Intrinsically Irreversible Quantum Mechanics	p. 23
Entanglement, Complementarity and Decoherence	p. 30
Phase Dynamics of Solid-State Qubits: Magnets and Superconductors	p. 39
Decoherence, Purification and Entanglement	p. 83
Propagation of Decoherence in a Field and Complex Spectral Representation	p. 95
Time Asymmetric Quantum Theory. Foundations and Applications	p. 117
On Phonon Mediated Decoherence of Orbital Degrees of Freedom in Quantum Dot	p. 139
Stimulated Emission with Non-Equilibrium State of Radiation	p. 157
Effects of Static Imperfections for Quantum Computing	p. 176
Lessons of Coherence and Decoherence - From Neutrinos to SQUIDS	p. 191
Kolmogorov Complexity, Cosmic Background Radiation and Irreversibility	p. 204
Observation of the Quantum Zeno and Anti-Zeno Effects in an Unstable System	p. 219
Quantum Zeno Effect	p. 233
Quantum Zeno Subspaces and Dynamical Superselection Rules	p. 251
Faster-than-Light Propagations, Negative Group Delays, and Their Applications	p. 287
Signal Velocity of Superluminal Light Pulses	p. 315
Matter-Wave Diffraction off Nano Gratings: Quantum Effects	p. 329
Superluminal Tunneling Devices	p. 339
Measurements of Nonlocal Variables	p. 356
Nonlocal Gross-Pitaevskii Equation Coupled to the Noncondensate Quantum Kinetic Equations in the Theory of Bose-Einstein Condensate Formation, Fluctuations, and Decoherence	p. 364
Microscopic Entropy Flow and Entropy Production in Resonance Scattering	p. 370
Nonlocality and Causality in Quantum Electrodynamics	p. 389
Superluminal Light Pulse Propagation in Active Nonlinear Media	p. 395
Generation and Detection of Photon Number States on Demand	p. 411
Quantum Properties of Solitons in Optical Fibers for Optical Communication	p. 427
Practical Creation and Detection of Polarization Bell States Using Parametric Down-Conversion	p. 437
Time-Reversed EPR and the Choice of Histories in Quantum Mechanics	p. 452
Photon Induced Chaotic Scattering	p. 462
Some Properties of Three-Party Entangled States and Their Application in Quantum Communication	p. 472
Atomic and Nuclear Interference Effects for Quantum Information Processing	p. 485
Trojan Horse Attacking Strategy on Quantum Cryptography	p. 495
Note on the EPR-Chameleon Experiment	p. 503
Quantum Networks for Distributed Computation and Communication	p. 516
Geometric Construction of Multi-Bit Quantum Gates	p. 522
Bell's Inequalities	p. 534
Systems and Subsystems in Quantum Communication	p. 555
Quantum Enhancements to Channel Capacity	p. 561
Entanglement, Kinetic Energy and the Quantum Fictitious Potential	p. 568
Long Distance Quantum Communication	p. 576
Universal Quantum Computation with Josephson Junctions	p. 589
Statistical Mechanics Approach to Error-Correcting Codes	p. 608
Direct Detection of Quantum Entanglement	p. 621
The Theory of Neural Networks and Cryptography	p. 631
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