Modern Challenges in Quantum Optics: Selected Papers of the First International Meeting in Quantum Optics Held in Santiago, Chile, 13–16 August 2000

H. Walther (auth.), Miguel Orszag, Juan Carlos Retamal (eds.)3540419578, 9783540419570

Quantum Optics is a rapidly progressing field well suited to probe the many fundamental issues raised by the subtleties of quantum physics. This book consists of a collection of reviews and papers that highlight the most important challenges faced in this area of research, including topics such as cavity QED, quantum entanglement, decoherence, matter waves and nonlinear optics. It will be a source of reference for all those who wish to familiarize themselves with the latest developments in the field.

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Table of contents :
Generation of Fock States in the One-Atom Maser….Pages 3-13
Coherent Manipulation of Two Trapped Ions with Bichromatic Light….Pages 14-28
Quantum Nondemolition Measurement and Quantum State Manipulation in Two Dimensional Trapped Ion….Pages 29-42
Phonon-Photon Translation with a Trapped Ion in a Cavity….Pages 43-62
Decoherence, Pointer Engineering and Quantum State Protection….Pages 65-79
High Efficiency in Detection of Photonic Qubits….Pages 80-94
Macroscopic Entanglement and Relative Phase….Pages 95-109
Decoherence Effects of Motion Induced Radiation….Pages 110-124
Control of Cold Atomic Collisions by Multiparticle Entanglement and a Modified Vacuum in Cavity QED….Pages 125-137
Decoherence Evolution of a Harmonic Oscillator….Pages 138-157
Atomic Squeezing and Entanglement from Bose-Einstein Condensates….Pages 161-176
Atomic Coherence Effects in Doppler-Broadened Three-Level Systems with Standing-Wave Drive….Pages 177-194
Frequency Up-Conversion to the Vacuum Ultra-Violet in Coherently Prepared Media….Pages 195-211
Optical Lattice Dynamics and Scattering Processes Resulting from Dipole-Dipole Interaction….Pages 212-226
Time Delay and Tunneling….Pages 229-243
Giant Intensity-Intensity Correlations and Quantum Interference in a Driven Three-Level Atom….Pages 244-261
A Cavity QED Test of Quantum Mechanics….Pages 262-278
The Method of Quantum Jumps and Quantum White Noise….Pages 279-293
Quantum Orbits in Intense-Laser Atom Physics….Pages 294-309
Micromaser Dynamics Beyond the Rotating-Wave Approximation….Pages 310-337
What Is a Quantized Mode of a Leaky Cavity?….Pages 338-354
The Quantum Jumps Approach for Infinitely Many States….Pages 355-376
Coherent Population Trapping and Resonance Fluorescence in a Closed Four Level System….Pages 379-383
Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensation for Negative Scattering Length….Pages 384-388
Quantum Gates with a Selective Interaction….Pages 389-393
Measuring Entanglement Through the Wigner Function….Pages 394-398
Reflection of a Slow Atom by a Cavity….Pages 399-405