Coherent Atomic Matter Waves - Ondes de Matiere Coherentes: 27 July - 27 August 1999

ISBN-13: 9783540410478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 717 str.

K. R. Kaiser; C. Westbrook; F. David

Opis

This title is devoted to the study of quantum effects in atomic systems, and reviews the fields of Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum information processing, and the problems of propagation of matter waves in complex media.

Spis treści

Bose-Einstein Condensates in Atomic Gases: Simple Theoretical Results.- Spinor Condensates and Light Scattering from Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Field Theory for Trapped Atomic Gases.- Atom Interferometry.- Mesoscopic Light Scattering in Atomic Physics.- Quantum Chaos in Atomic Physics.- Photonic Band Gap Materials: A New Frontier in Quantum and Nonlinear Optics.- Environment-Induced Decoherence and the Transition from Quantum to Classical.- Cavity QED Experiments, Entanglement and Quantum Measurement.- Basic Concepts in Quantum Computation.- Coherent Backscattering of Light from a Cold Atomic Cloud.