Quantum Communication and Information Technologies

Preface. Contributing Authors. Introduction. Schmidt-mode Analysis of Entanglement for Quantum Information Studies; J.H. Eberly, K.W. Chan, C.K. Law. Quantum Metrology and Quantum Information Processing with Hyper-entangled Quantum States; A.V. Sergienko, G.S. Jaeger, G. di Giuseppe, B.E.A. Saleh, M.C. Teich. Optimal Manipulations with Quantum Information: Universal Quantum Machines; V. Buzek. An Introduction to Quantum Imaging; L.A. Lugiato, A. Gatti, E. Brambilla. Lecture Notes on Quantum-nondemolition Measurements in Optics; V.V. Kozlov. Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Single Atoms; H. Walther. Multipole Radiation in Quantum Domain; A.S. Schumovsky, M.A. Can, Ö. Soykal. Theory of Atomic Hyperfine Structure; A.V. Andreev. Interaction of Mesoscopic Devices with Non-classical Electromagnetic Fields; A. Vourdas. Resonance Quantum Optics of Photonic Crystals; V.I. Rupasov. Photonic Crystals for Communications; T.F. Krauss. Physics and Applications of Defect Structures in Photonic Crystals; E. Ozbay, M. Bayinder. Coherence and Superfluidity of Atomic Gases; M.P. Tosi. Different Scattering Regimes in Two-dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensates; B. Tanatar. An Information-theoretic Analysis of Grover's Algorithm; E. Arikan. Index.