Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 2

Quantum Information and Quantum Communication.- Quantum Robots Plus Environments.- Just Two Nonorthogonal Quantum States.- On Maximum Mutual Information without Coding.- Aspects of Quantum Information Compression for Pure States.- Group Covariant Signals in Quantum Information Theory.- Optimization of a Symmetric Quantum Channel and its Optical Realization Scheme.- Manipulation of Entangled States for Quantum Information Processing.- Decoherence Control in Quantum Information Processing: Simple Models.- Entanglement of Formation.- Sending Quantum Information with Gaussian States.- Quantum Communication with Imperfect Means.- On Quantum Channel Capacity for Squeezed States.- Asymptotic Quantum Estimation Theory for the Thermal States Family.- The Asymptotic Efficiency of the Consistent Estimator, Berry-Uhlmann’s Curvature, and Quantum Information Geometry.- Optimal Signal-to-Quantum Noise Ratio in Squeezed Displaced Number States.- Quantum Measurement and Tomography.- Dual Classical and Quantum Descriptions of a Measuring Apparatus.- Generalised Measurements, Retrodiction and State Manipulation.- Latest Developments in Quantum Tomography.- Measuring the Quantum Polarization State of Light.- Measurement of Joint Photon-Number Distribution of a Twin-Beam State by Means of Optical Homodyne Tomography.- Homodyning Bell’s Inequality.- Hydrodynamical Quantum State Reconstruction.- Quantum Tomography: Renormalization of Incompatible Observations.- Accuracy in Quantum Homodyne Tomography.- Probing Quantum States of Rydberg Electrons by Half-Cycle Pulses.- Non-Markovian Quantum Trajectories for Open Systems.- Maximally Robust Unravelings of Quantum Master Equations with Applications to the Atom Laser.- Quantum Noise and Dynamic Chaos in Opto-Electronic Laser LightTransformer.- Quantized Phase-Difference.- Relativistic Quantum Theory with a Physical State Vector and Hypothetical Laws of Reduction.- Quantum Computing.- Teleportation of General Quantum States, Squeezing and the Decoherence Problem in Quantum Computers.- Quantum Turing Machines: Local Transition, Preparation, Measurement, and Halting.- A New Approach to Quantum Computation.- Hypersensitivity to Perturbation on an NMR Quantum Computer.- Quantum Networks for Distributed Quantum Information Processing.- Quantum Phenomena of Trapped Ions.- Progress Towards Using a Calcium Ion Trap to Perform Quantum Logic Operations.- Quantum Computation with “Hot” Trapped Ions.- Novel Quantum Effects in Light Scattering from Cold Trapped Atoms.- Preparation of Highly Excited Motional Energy Eigenstates with a Trapped Atom.- Optical Implementation of Grover’s Algorithm: It’s all Done with Mirrors.- Quantum State Protection in Optical Cavities.- Control of Dynamical Localization by Additional Quantum Degrees.- Two-Photon Interactions for Use in Quantum Computing.- Decoherence and Quantum Error Correction in Frequency Standards.- Transition Phenomena in Networks of Quantum Systems.- Experimental Demonstration of Coherent Quantum Feedback.- Classical Behavior of a Macroscopic Schrödinger Cat.- Quantum Teleportation and Cryptography.- Free-Space Quantum Cryptography.- Parametric Schroedinger Cat with No Decoherence.- Quantum Cryptography Via Parametric Downconversion.- Dim Coherent States as Signal States in the Bb84 Protocol: Is it Secure?.- Practical Aspects of Quantum Cryptography.- Quantum Versus Classical Noise Cryptography.- Quantum Cryptography with Femtosecond Parametric Down Conversion.- Generation of Narrow-B and Two-Photon State with Doubly Resonant Cavity in ParametricDown-Conversion.- Quantum State Engineering.- From Entangled Photons to Entangled Atoms.- Single Photon Quantum Control Via High-?(3) Media.- Experimental Realization of Popper’s Experiment: Violation of Uncertainty Principle?.- Soliton Photon Number Squeezing: An Overview.- Amplitude Soliton Squeezing Using an Asymmetric Sagnac Fiber Loop.- Time Domain Correlations and Gated Detection of Quantum Solitons.- Observation of Squeezing in Free-Space Phase-Dependent Resonance Fluorescence.- Observation of Noiseless Image Amplification by an Optical Parametric Amplifier.- Traveling-Wave Noiseless Amplification of Optical Images.- Quantum Noise Reduction in Singly Resonant Optical Devices.- Influence of Dissipation Effects on Polarization-Squeezed Light Formation at Frequency Doubling.- Degenerate Optical Parametric Amplification with Focused Gaussian Beams.- Eigen State Transmission of Birefringent Optical Fibers Using Entangled Two Photons.- Four-Photon Partition at Beamsplitter in Parametric Down-Conversion with Pulsed Pumping.- Energy Transfer in Parametric Down-Conversion.- A Realistic Interaction-Free Resonator.