Modern Challenges in Quantum Optics: Selected Papers of the First International Meeting in Quantum Optics Held in Santiago, Chile, 13-16 August 2000 (Hardcover, 2001)

Trapped Ions and Cavity QED.- Generation of Fock States in the One-Atom Maser.- Coherent Manipulation of Two Trapped Ions with Bichromatic Light.- Quantum Nondemolition Measurement and Quantum State Manipulation in Two Dimensional Trapped Ion.- Phonon-Photon Translation with a Trapped Ion in a Cavity.- Quantum Interference, Entanglement, Decoherence and Quantum Computing.- Decoherence, Pointer Engineering and Quantum State Protection.- High Efficiency in Detection of Photonic Qubits.- Macroscopic Entanglement and Relative Phase.- Decoherence Effects of Motion Induced Radiation.- Control of Cold Atomic Collisions by Multiparticle Entanglement and a Modified Vacuum in Cavity QED.- Decoherence Evolution of a Harmonic Oscillator.- Non-linear Optics, Matter Waves.- Atomic Squeezing and Entanglement from Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Atomic Coherence Effects in Doppler-Broadened Three-Level Systems with Standing-Wave Drive.- Frequency Up-Conversion to the Vacuum Ultra-Violet in Coherently Prepared Media.- Optical Lattice Dynamics and Scattering Processes Resulting from Dipole-Dipole Interaction.- Quantum Optics and Applications.- Time Delay and Tunneling.- Giant Intensity-Intensity Correlations and Quantum Interference in a Driven Three-Level Atom.- A Cavity QED Test of Quantum Mechanics.- The Method of Quantum Jumps and Quantum White Noise.- Quantum Orbits in Intense-Laser Atom Physics.- Micromaser Dynamics Beyond the Rotating-Wave Approximation.- What Is a Quantized Mode of a Leaky Cavity?.- The Quantum Jumps Approach for Infinitely Many States.- Short Contributions.- Coherent Population Trapping and Resonance Fluorescence in a Closed Four Level System.- Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensation for Negative Scattering Length.- Quantum Gates with a Selective Interaction.- Measuring Entanglement Through the Wigner Function.- Reflection of a Slow Atom by a Cavity.