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Algorithms for quantum systems - quantum algorithms<br> Quantum information processing and error correction with jump codes<br> Computational model for the one-way quantum computer: Concepts and summary<br> Simulation tool development related to a combinatorial quantum automaton based on trapped ions<br> Increasing the size of NMR quantum computers<br> On lossless quantum data compression with a classical helper<br> Entanglement properties of composite quantum systems<br> Non-classical Gaussian states in noisy environments<br> Quantum estimation with finite resources<br> Size scaling of decoherence rates<br> Reduced collective description of spin-ensembles<br> Quantum Gates and Algorithms on Molecular Vibrations -<br> NEW<br> Decoherence in resonantly driven bistable systems<br> Entanglement and decoherence in cavity QED with a trapped ion<br> Quantum information processing with ions deterministically coupled to an optical cavity<br> Strongly coupled atom-cavity systems<br> A relaxation-free verification of the quantum zeno paradox on an individual atom<br> Spin resonance with trapped ions: experiments and new concepts<br> Controlled single neutral atoms as qubits<br> Towards quantum logic with cold atoms in a CO2 -laser optical lattice<br> Quantum information processing with atoms in optical micro-structures<br> Quantum information processing with neutral atoms on atom chips<br> Fabrication and measurement of aluminum and niobium based single-electron transistors and charge qubits<br> Quantum Dynamics of Vortices and Vortex Qubits -<br> NEW<br> Quantum dot circuits for quantum computation<br> Multiphoton entanglement<br> A quantum optical XOR gate<br> Conditional Linear Optical Networks -<br> NEW<br> A quantum optical XOR gate<br> Quantum structure of fiber solitons and quantum communication

"This revised edition provides up-to-date insights into the current research of quantum superposition, entanglement, and the quantum measurement process…" (<i>IEEE Computer Magazine</i>, September 2005)

Thomas Beth studied mathematics, physics and medicine. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 and his Postdoctoral Lecturer Qualification (Dr.-Ing. habil.) in informatics in 1984. From a position as Professor of computer science at the University of London he was apppointed to a chair of informatics at the University of Karlsruhe. He also is the director of the European Institute for System Security (E.I.S.S.). In the past decade he has built up a research center for quantum information at the Institute for Algorithms and Cognitive Systems (IAKS). Professor Thomas Beth passed away in 2005.<br> <br> Gerd Leuchs studied physics and mathematics at the University of Cologne and received his Ph.D. in 1978. After two research visits at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he headed the German Gravitational Wave Detection Group from 1985 to 1989. He then went on to be the technical director of Nanomach AG in Switzerland for four years. Since 1994 he holds the chair for optics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His fields of research span the range from modern aspects of classical optics to quantum optics and quantum information.<br>

This revised edition provides an up-to-date insight into the current research of quantum superposition, entanglement, and the quantum measurement process - the key ingredients of quantum information processing. The contributions have been carefully revised and enlarged with respect to recent developments in quantum computation, quantum transportation and cryptography. Here, leading experts bring together the latest results in quantum information and address all the relevant questions.

"This collection representing state-of-the-art research in a number of important directions, with a nice balance between theory and experiment, is a worthy contribution to the literature.... An excellent up-to-date reference"<br /> —Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, Melbourne

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