Decoherence, Entanglement and Information Protection in Complex Quantum Systems: Proceedings of the NATO ARW on Decoherence, Entanglement and Information Protection in Complex Quantum Systems, Les Houches, France, from 26 to 30 April 2004.: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, cartea 189

Editorial Article.- Role of Entanglement in Quantum Computing and Information Processing.- Quantum Ensembles and Quantum Informatics.- Entanglement in Quantum Information Processing.- Easy Control Over Fermionic Computations.- Multiatom and Multiphoton Entanglement.- Multiatom and Multiphoton Entanglement.- On the Advanced Wave Model of Parametric Down-Conversion.- Quantum Logics Based on Four-Photon Entanglement.- Towards Quantum Control of Light: Shaping Quantum Pulses of Light via Coherent Atomic Memory.- Deterministic Entanglement of Single Photons via Coherently Driven Atoms.- Selective Control of High-Order Atomic Coherences.- Strong Entanglement of Bright Light Beams in Controlled Quantum Systems.- Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Protection from Decoherence.- Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Protection from Decoherence.- Coherence Protection by the Quantum Zeno Effect.- Possible Implementation of Topologically Protected Qubits by a Novel Class of Josephson Junction Arrays.- Coherence Protection Near Energy Gaps.- Zeno and Anti-Zeno Dynamics.- Non-Markovian Decay and Decoherence in Open Quantum Systems.- Non-Markovian Decay and Decoherence in Open Quantum Systems.- The Varieties of Master Equations.- Quantum Dynamics Effected by Repeated Measurements.- Non-Exponential Motional Damping of Impurity Atoms in Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Internal-Translational Entanglement and Interference in Atoms and Molecules.- Internal-Translational Entanglement and Interference in Atoms and Molecules.- Atom-Mesoscopic Field Entanglement.- Coherence and Decoherence Experiments with Fullerenes.- Distant Entanglement of Macroscopic Gas Samples.- Position and Momentum Entanglement of Dipole-Dipole Interacting Atoms in Optical Lattices.- Investigation of Autler-Townes Effect in Sodium Dimers.- Transition Steering via Space-Dependent Coupling.- Coherence and Decoherence in Rydberg Gases.- Proton Entanglement and Decoherence in Solids.- Schrödinger’s Cat States of Protons in Condensed Matter.- Anomalous Neutron Inelastic Cross Sections at eV Energy Transfers.- Quantum Entanglement and Decoherence Due to Coupling of Protons to Electronic Environment.- Attosecond Effects in Scattering of Neutrons and Electrons from Protons.- Macroscopic Quantum Entanglement in the KHCO3 Crystal.- Probing Short-Lived Entanglement with Inelastic X-ray Scattering.- Proton-Proton Correlations in Condensed Matter.- Is Fermi’s Golden Rule Always True for Compton Scattering?.- On Correlation Approach to Scattering in the Decoherence Timescale.- Coherence and Entanglement in Mesoscopic Systems.- Coherence and Entanglement in Mesoscopic Systems.- Probe Scattering by Fluctuating Multi-Atom Ensembles in Optical Lattices.- Bose-Einstein Condensates with Laser-Induced Dipole-Dipole Interactions.- Atom Optics with Bose-Einstein Condensation Using Optical Potentials.- A Mesoscopic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer.- Coherent Transport by Adiabatic Pumping.- Zeno and Anti-Zeno Effects in Driven Josephson Junctions: Control of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling.- Employment of Submicron YBA2CU3O7-x Grain Boundary Junctions for the Fabrication of “ Quiet” Superconducting Flux-Qubits.- Broken Symmetry and Coherence of Molecular Vibrations in Tunnel Transitions.

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