Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement

Speeches of Organizers.- I. Quantum Communication and Information Theory.- Information Theoretic Interpretations of von Neumann Entropy.- Quantum Information Theory, the Entropy Bound, and Mathematical Rigor in Physics.- Classical and Quantum Information Transmission and Interactions.- Bounds of the Accessible Information under the Influence of Thermal Noise.- Techniques for Bounding Quantum Correlations.- Relation between Channel Capacity and Quantum Minimax Decision in Quantum Information Theory.- Optimum Binary Signal Detections for Error Probability and Mutual Information.- Entanglement-Enhanced Classical Communication on a Noisy Quantum Channel.- Security against Eavesdropping in Quantum Cryptography.- A Linear Programming Approach to Attainable Cramér-Rao Type Bounds.- Non-Commutative Extension of Information Geometry II.- Wavelets and Information-Preserving Transformations.- On the Realization of Received Quantum State Control by Unitary Transformation.- Properties of Quantum Cryptography Based on Orthogonal States: Goldenberg and Vaidman Scheme.- Computation of Mutual Entropy in Quantum Amplifier Processes.- II. Quantum Computing.- Quantum Computing and Decoherence in Quantum Optical Systems.- Unitary Dynamics for Quantum Codewords.- Quantum Error Correction with Imperfect Gates.- Eliminating the Effects of Spontaneous Emission in Quantum Computations with Cold Trapped Ions.- Integrability and Computability in Simulating Quantum Systems.- Slowing Down the Decoherence of Quantum Bits.- Quantum Capacity of Noisy Quantum Channel.- III. Quantum Measurement Theory and Statistical Physics.- On Covariant Instruments in Quantum Measurement Theory.- Quantum State Reduction and the Quantum Bayes Principle.- On the Quantum Theory of Direct Detection.- Homodyning asUniversal Detection.- Resolutions of the Identity in Terms of Line Integrals of Coherent States and Their Use for Quantum State Engineering.- Unitary Control Process for Quantum Optimum Detection.- Quantum Zeno Effect and “Domination” of the Temporal Evolution of Quantum Systems.- Physical Interpretation of Optimum Quantum Detection Operators.- Generalised Uncertainties for Quantum Signal Processing.- Optimal Quantum Measurements for Phase Estimation in Interferometry.- Hypersensitivity to Perturbation: An Information-Theoretical Characterization of Classical and Quantum Chaos.- A Topological Approach to Phase of Quantum Chaos.- Subdynamics through Time Scales and Scattering Maps in Quantum Field Theory.- Time-Ordered Wick Exponential and Quantum Stochastic Differential Equations.- “Nonlocal” Interference Effects in Frequency Domain.- Quantum Stochastic Systems in Terms of Non-Equilibrium Thermo Field Dynamics.- Considerations in the Time-Energy Uncertainty Relation from the Viewpoint of Hypothesis Testing.- An Open System Approach to Quantum Computers.- IV. Quantum Optics.- Atom Lasers.- Measurement of Quantum Phase Distribution by Projection Synthesis.- Quantum Optical Phase.- Single-Shot Adaptive Measurements of the Phase of a Single Mode Field.- Amplitude Squeezing of the Fundamental Field by Means of Traveling-Wave Quasi-Phasematched Second-Harmonic Generation in a LiNbO3 Waveguide.- Quantum Noise Reduction of the Pump Field in an Optical Parametric Oscillator.- Optical Measurements of Weak Absorption beyond Shot-Noise Limit.- Decoherence and Relaxation of Two Strongly Coupled Spin 1/2 Atoms.- Spatial Correlation Effects in Multi—Transverse Mode Lasers.- Generation of Nonclassical Photons in a Josephson-Junction Cavity.- Polarization-Squeezed LightGeneration in a Second Order Nonlinear Medium.- Reconstruction of External Forces in Quantum Noises of Parametric Measuring System with Dissipation.- Squeezed State Generation in the Process of Light Interaction with a System of Free Electrons.- Diode Structure for Generation of Sub-Poissonian Photon Fluxes by Stark-Effect Blockade of Emissions.- Control of Quantum States in Nonstationary Cavity QED Systems.- A Simulation of Pulsed Squeezing in Short Optical Fiber Loop Mirror.- Quantum Properties of the Traveling-Wave x(2) Process: Theory, Experiments, and Applications.