| Preface | p. xi |
| Contributing Authors | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Schmidt-mode Analysis of Entanglement for Quantum Information Studies | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Schmidt Theorem | p. 2 |
| Finite Hilbert space | p. 4 |
| Quantum Entanglement in Very Large State Spaces | p. 5 |
| Beyond Spontaneous Emission | p. 9 |
| Summary | p. 11 |
| Quantum Metrology and Quantum Information Processing with Hyper-entangled Quantum States | p. 13 |
| Introduction | p. 14 |
| Hyperentangled State Engineering | p. 19 |
| Quantum Metrology and Quantum Information | p. 31 |
| Conclusion | p. 43 |
| Optimal Manipulations with Quantum Information: Universal Quantum Machines | p. 47 |
| Introduction | p. 47 |
| Bell Telephone & FLASH | p. 49 |
| No-cloning Theorem | p. 52 |
| Universal Quantum Cloners | p. 56 |
| No-signaling & Linearity of Quantum Mechanics | p. 59 |
| Cloning, Signaling & POVM | p. 64 |
| Flipping Qubits: Universal NOT Gate | p. 67 |
| Experimental Realization of U-NOT Gate | p. 72 |
| Conclusion | p. 78 |
| Proof of Theorem I | p. 78 |
| An Introduction to Quantum Imaging | p. 85 |
| Introduction | p. 85 |
| The Optical Parametric Amplifier and Its Spatial Quantum Properties | p. 86 |
| Detection of Weak Amplitude or Phase Objects Beyond the Standard Quantum Limit | p. 90 |
| Quantum Imaging with Entangled Photon Pairs | p. 90 |
| Image Amplification by Parametric Down Conversion | p. 92 |
| Measurement of Small Displacements | p. 95 |
| Image Reconstruction | p. 96 |
| Lecture notes on quantum-nondemolition measurements in optics | p. 101 |
| Introduction | p. 101 |
| Back-action in repeated quantum measurements | p. 103 |
| QND measurements of photon number in a cavity | p. 105 |
| Formal QND requirements | p. 113 |
| QND measurements via Kerr interaction | p. 114 |
| QND measurements of solitons in optical fibers | p. 119 |
| Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Single Atoms | p. 125 |
| Introduction | p. 125 |
| Review of the One-Atom Maser | p. 125 |
| Generation of Fock States in the One-Atom Maser | p. 132 |
| Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Trapped Ions | p. 137 |
| Conclusion | p. 141 |
| Multipole Radiation in Quantum Domain | p. 145 |
| Quantization of Multipole Radiation | p. 147 |
| Angular Momentum of Multipole Photons | p. 151 |
| Quantum Phase of E1 Photons | p. 157 |
| Polarization of Multipole Photons | p. 161 |
| Summary | p. 165 |
| Theory of Atomic Hyperfine Structure | p. 171 |
| Introduction | p. 171 |
| Equation for Spin 1/2 Particle Interacting with Electromagnetic Field | p. 173 |
| Interaction of Electron with Electric and Magnetic Fields | p. 178 |
| Discussion | p. 189 |
| Conclusion | p. 191 |
| Interaction of Mesoscopic Devices with non-classical Electromagnetic Fields | p. 195 |
| Introduction | p. 195 |
| AC Aharonov-Bohm Phenomena | p. 197 |
| Interaction of Josephson Devices with non-classical Microwaves | p. 202 |
| Dual Phenomena with Vortex Condensates in Josephson Array Insulating Rings | p. 204 |
| Discussion | p. 208 |
| References | p. 209 |
| Resonance Quantum Optics of Photonic Crystals | p. 211 |
| Introduction | p. 211 |
| Generalized Quantum Maxwell-Bloch Model | p. 214 |
| Quantum Version of McCall-Hahn Theory | p. 221 |
| One-particle Problem in Generalized QMB Model | p. 226 |
| Hidden Bethe Basis for Free Polariton Field | p. 231 |
| Exact Diagonalization of Generalized QMB Model | p. 234 |
| SIT Pulses in Dispersive Medium | p. 237 |
| Polarization Effects | p. 246 |
| Photonic Crystals For Communications | p. 251 |
| Fabrication | p. 252 |
| Waveguide Propagation Losses | p. 254 |
| Y-Junctions | p. 260 |
| Dispersion | p. 262 |
| Spectral Dispersion | p. 264 |
| Discussion and Conclusion | p. 268 |
| Physics and Applications of Defect Structures in Photonic Crystals | p. 273 |
| Introduction | p. 273 |
| Localized Coupled-Cavity Modes in Photonic Crystals | p. 275 |
| Coupled-Cavities in 3D Photonic Crystals | p. 279 |
| Highly Confined Photonic Crystal Waveguides | p. 286 |
| Summary | p. 292 |
| Coherence and Superfluidity in Atomic Gases | p. 299 |
| Introduction | p. 299 |
| Bose-condensed Gases of Alkali Atoms Inside Harmonic Traps | p. 301 |
| Condensates in Optical Lattices | p. 311 |
| Confined Fermi Gases and Boson-fermion Mixtures | p. 318 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 324 |
| Different Scattering Regimes in Two-dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensates | p. 329 |
| Introduction | p. 329 |
| Theory | p. 331 |
| Results and Discussion | p. 333 |
| Summary and Concluding Remarks | p. 336 |
| An Information-theoretic Analysis of Grover's Algorithm | p. 339 |
| Introduction | p. 339 |
| A General Framework for Quantum Search | p. 340 |
| Grover's Algorithm | p. 341 |
| Index | p. 349 |
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