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Coherent atomic matter waves - Ondes de matiere coherentes

27 July - 27 August 1999

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2001

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  1. R. Kaiser
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Part of the book series: Les Houches - Ecole d'Ete de Physique Theorique (LHSUMMER, volume 72)

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvi
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  2. Bose-Einstein Condensates in Atomic Gases: Simple Theoretical Results

    • Y. Castin
    Pages 1-136

  3. Spinor Condensates and Light Scattering from Bose-Einstein Condensates

    • D. M. Stamper-Kurn, W. Ketterle
    Pages 139-217

  4. Field Theory for Trapped Atomic Gases

    • H. T. C. Stoof
    Pages 219-315

  5. Atom Interferometry

    • S. Chu
    Pages 317-370

  6. Mesoscopic Light Scattering in Atomic Physics

    • B. A. van Tiggelen
    Pages 371-414

  7. Quantum Chaos in Atomic Physics

    • D. Delande
    Pages 415-479

  8. Photonic Band Gap Materials: A New Frontier in Quantum and Nonlinear Optics

    • S. John
    Pages 481-531

  9. Environment-Induced Decoherence and the Transition from Quantum to Classical

    • J. P. Paz, W. H. Zurek
    Pages 533-614

  10. Cavity QED Experiments, Entanglement and Quantum Measurement

    • M. Brune
    Pages 615-660

  11. Basic Concepts in Quantum Computation

    • A. Ekert, P. M. Hayden, H. Inamori
    Pages 661-701

  12. Coherent Backscattering of Light from a Cold Atomic Cloud

    • G. Labeyrie, F. de Tomasi, J.-C. Bernard, C. Mueller, C. Miniatura, R. Kaiser
    Pages 703-714
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Progress in atomic physics has been so vigorous during the past decade that one is hard pressed to follow all the new developments. In the early 1990s the first atom interferometers opened a new field in which we have been able to use the wave nature of atoms to probe fundamental quantum me chanics questions as well as to make precision measurements. Coming fast on the heels of this development was the demonstration of Bose Einstein condensation in dilute atomic vapors which intensified research interest in studying the wave nature of matter, especially in a domain in which "macro scopic" quantum effects (vortices, stimulated scattering of atomic beams) are visible. At the same time there has been much progress in our understanding of the behavior of waves (notably electromagnetic) in complex media, both periodic and disordered. An obvious topic of speculation and probably of future research is whether any new insight or applications will develop if one examines the behavior of de Broglie waves in analogous situations. Finally, our ability to manipulate atoms has allowed us not only to create macroscopically occupied quantum states but also to exercise fine control over the quantum states of a small number of atoms. This has advanced to the study of quantum entanglement and its relation to the theory of measurement and the theory of information. The 1990s have also seen an explosion of interest in an exciting potential application of this fine control: quantum computation and quantum cryptography.

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