Directions in Quantum Optics: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to the Memory of Dan Walls Including Papers Presented at the Tamu-Onr Workshop Held a (Hardcover, 2001)

Bose-Einstein Condensation.- Density Oscillations in Trapped Bose Condensates at Finite Temperature.- Coherent Vortex Dynamics in Two- and Three-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Quasicondensate Droplet Formation in Hydrogen.- Polarization Decay in a BCS Paired Fermi Gas.- A Model of a Pumped Continuous Atom Laser.- The BEC Near a Feshbach Resonance: A Superfluid of Mutually Coherent Condensates.- Collisional and Collapse Dynamics of a Twin Bose-Einstein Condensate with Negative Scattering Length.- Schrodinger Cat State of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Double-Well Potential.- Quantum Interference and Atom Optics.- A Historical Perspective on Lasing Without Inversion.- The Coherent-Path Approach to Forward Scattering of Recoil-Free Resonant Gamma Radiation.- Parametric Amplification of Coupled Atomic and Optical Fields.- Quantum and QED Effects on Reflection from an Atomic Mirror.- Atom Wave Lithography via Adiabatic Passage in Multilevel Systems.- Quantum Information.- Qudit Entanglement.- Grover's Algorithm for Multiobject Search in Quantum Computing.- New Tests of Macroscopic Local Realism.- Teleportation Criteria: Form and Significance.- Quantum Information Processing Based on Cavity QED with Mesoscopic Systems.- Quantum State Protection Using All-Optical Feedback.- Cavity QED and Nonlinear Optics.- Single-Photon Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Control.- Normal-Mode Coupling of Excitons and Photons in Laterally Confined Nanocavities - Toward the Quantum Statistical Limit.- Cavity QED with Many Atoms.- The Photonic Band Gap Laser: The Role of Spontaneous Emission in the Theory of Solid-State Lasers and LEDs.- Superradiant and Subradiant Behavior of the Overdamped Many-Atom Micromaser.- Bifurcations to Cooperative States in Arrays of Coupled Nonlinear Optical Oscillators.- Quantum Noise Processes.- Nonlinear Quantum Fluctuations in the Parametric Amplifier.- Quantum Phase Transitions in a Linear Ion Trap.- Quantum Noise Transfer Functions: A Practical Tool in Quantum Optics.- Self-Consistency of Thermal Jump Trajectories.- Complementarity in Spontaneous Emission: Quantum Jumps, Staggers and Slides.- Ergodicity of Quantum Trajectory Detection Records.