Macroscopic Quantum Coherence and Quantum Computing

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Macroscopic Quantum Coherence and Decoherence in Squids....Pages 1-6
Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in an Rf-SQUID....Pages 7-16
Quantum-State Interference in a Cooper-Pair Box....Pages 17-24
Macroscopic Quantum Superposition in a Three-Josephson-Junction Loop....Pages 25-34
Bose-Einstein Condensation with Attractive Interaction Fate of a False Vacuum....Pages 35-40
Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates....Pages 41-50
Phase-Coherent Electronic Transport in a Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube....Pages 51-60
Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena in Underdamped Josephson Junctions....Pages 61-71
Superconducting Devices to Test Macroscopic Quantum Coherence on the Flux States of a Rf SQUID....Pages 73-82
Biepitaxial YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-x Grain Boundary Josephson Junctions: 0- and π- Rings for Fundamental Studies and Potential Circuit Implementation....Pages 83-100
The Superconducting Single Electron Transistor: in situ Variation of the Dissipation....Pages 101-110
Superconducting Electrometer for Measuring the Single Cooper Pair Box....Pages 111-125
Adiabatic Transport of Cooper Pairs in Arrays of Small Josephson Junctions....Pages 127-136
Entangled States in a Josephson Charge Qubit Coupled to a Superconducting Resonator....Pages 137-145
Cooper Pair Tunneling in Circuits with Substantial Dissipation: The Three-Junction R-Pump for Single Cooper Pairs....Pages 147-154
Nonlocality in Superconducting Microstructures....Pages 155-163
Characterisation of Cooper Pair Boxes for Quantum Bits....Pages 165-172
Noise Measurements of a Superconducting Single Electron Transistor (SSET) at T=0.3K....Pages 173-181
Quantum Coherence and Decoherence in Magnetic Nanostructures....Pages 183-193
MQT of Magnetic Particles....Pages 195-205
Abrupt Transition Between Thermally-Assisted and Pure Quantum Tunneling in Mn 12 ....Pages 207-214
Quantum Effects in the Dynamics of the Magnetization in Single Molecule Magnets....Pages 215-223
Quantum Coherence and Very Low Temperature Magnetic Experiments in Mesoscopic Magnets....Pages 225-234
Quantum Gates and Networks with Cavity QED Systems....Pages 235-244
Dual Josephson Phenomena: Interaction of Vortices with Non-Classical Microwaves....Pages 245-252
Quantum Computation: Theory, Practice, and Future Prospects....Pages 253-260
Reading-Out a Quantum State: An Analysis of the Quantum Measurement Process....Pages 261-270
Adiabatic Inversion in the Squid, Macroscopic Coherence and Decoherence....Pages 271-283
Quantum Computing with Separable States?....Pages 285-292
Spintronics and Quantum Computing with Quantum Dots....Pages 293-306
Double Quantum Dot Coupled to Two Superconductors: Transport and Spin Entanglement....Pages 307-315
Transport Through Artificial Kondo Impurities....Pages 317-324
Compensation of the Spin of a Quantum dot at Coulomb Blockade....Pages 325-340
Multi-particle entanglement in quantum computers....Pages 341-350
Stabilization of Quantum Information: A Unified Dynamical-Algebraic Approach....Pages 351-357
1/ F Noise During Manipulation of Josephson Charge Qubits....Pages 359-366
Non-Markovian dynamics in continuous-wave atom lasers....Pages 367-380
Time-Correlated Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of Solitons in Density Waves and Long Josephson Junctions....Pages 381-388
The Non-Perturbative Quantum Behaviour of a Squid Ring in a Strong Electromagnetic Field....Pages 389-398
Noise properties of the SET transistor in the co-tunneling regime....Pages 399-407
Charge Fluctuations and Dephasing in Coulomb Coupled Conductors....Pages 409-418
The Measurement of Photon Number States Using Cavity QED....Pages 419-426
Abrupt Magnetoresistance Jumps in Ni-Wire Systems and Coulomb Blockade Under Elastic Environment in Single Junction/Carbon Nanotube System....Pages 427-442
Spontaneous generation of flux in a Josephson junction loop....Pages 443-448
Soliton Quantum Bit....Pages 449-457
Back Matter....Pages 459-460