Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the: ISQM, Tokyo '05, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium

CONTENTS......Page 12
Preface......Page 8
Committees......Page 10
Opening Address......Page 18
Welcoming Address......Page 20
Albert Einstein: Opportunity and perception......Page 21
Quantum optics with single atoms and photons......Page 27
Quantum information system experiments using a single photon source......Page 33
Quantum communication and quantum computation with entangled photons......Page 41
High-fidelity quantum teleportation and a quantum teleportation network for continuous variables......Page 46
Long lived entangled states......Page 50
Quantum non-locality using tripartite entanglement with non-orthogonal states......Page 55
Quantum entanglement and wedge product......Page 59
Analysis of the generation of photon pairs in periodically poled lithium niobate......Page 63
Generation of entangled photons in a semiconductor and violation of Bell's inequality......Page 67
Decoherence of a Josephson junction flux qubit......Page 71
Spectroscopic analysis of a candidate two-qubit silicon quantum computer in the microwave regime......Page 77
Berry phase detection in charge-coupled flux-qubits and the effect of decoherence......Page 81
Locally observable conditions for the successful implementation of entangling multi-qubit quantum gates......Page 85
State control in flux qubit circuits: manipulating optical selection rules of microwave-assisted transitions in three-level artificial atoms......Page 89
The effect of local structure and non-uniformity on decoherence-free states of charge qubits......Page 93
Entanglement-assisted estimation of quantum channels......Page 97
Superconducting quantum bit with ferromagnetic TT-Junction......Page 101
Generation of macroscopic Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states in Josephson systems......Page 105
Tunable tunnel and exchange couplings in double quantum dots......Page 109
Coherent transport through quantum dots......Page 116
Electrically pumped single-photon sources towards 1.3 um......Page 122
Aharonov-Bohm-type effects in antidot arrays and their decoherence......Page 126
Nonequilibrium Kondo dot connected to ferromagnetic leads......Page 130
Full counting-statistics in a single-electron transistor in the presence of strong quantum fluctuations......Page 134
Geometry and the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnets......Page 138
Control of spin chirality Berry phase and anomalous Hall effect......Page 144
Quantum geometry and Hall effect in ferromagnets and semiconductors......Page 151
Spin-Hall effect in a semiconductor two-dimensional hole gas with strong spin-orbit coupling......Page 157
Intrinsic spin Hall effect in semiconductors......Page 163
Theory of spin transfer phenomena in magnetic metals and semiconductors......Page 167
Spin filters of semiconductor nanostructures......Page 176
Experimental study on current-driven domain waii motion......Page 182
Magnetization reversal of ferromagnetic nano-dot by non local spin injection......Page 188
Theory of current-driven domain wall dynamics......Page 194
Magnetic impurity states and ferromagnetic interaction in diluted magnetic semiconductors......Page 200
Geometrical effect on spin current in magnetic nano-structures......Page 204
Ferromagnetism in anatase Ti02 codoped with Co and Nb......Page 208
Nonlinear quantum effects in nanosuperconductors......Page 211
Coalescence and rearrangement of vortices in mesoscopic superconductors......Page 217
Superconductivity in topologically nontrivial spaces......Page 221
DC-SQUID ratchet using atomic point contact......Page 225
Superconducting wire network under spatially modulated magnetic field......Page 229
Simple and stable control of mechanical break junction for the study of superconducting atomic point contact......Page 233
Critical currents in quasiperiodic pinning arrays: One-dimensional chains and Penrose lattices......Page 237
Macroscopic quantum tunneling in high-Tc superconductor Josephson junctions......Page 241
Carbon nanotubes and unique transport properties: importance of symmetry and channel number......Page 245
Optical processes in single-walled carbon nanotubes threaded by a magnetic flux......Page 251
Non-equilibrium transport through a single-walled carbon nanotube with high!y transparent coupling to reservoirs......Page 259
Transport properties in low dimensional artificial lattice of gold nano-particles......Page 263
First principles study of dihydride-chain structures on H-terminated Si(100) surface......Page 267
Electrical property of Ag nanowires fabricated on hydrogen-terminated Si(l 00) surface......Page 271
Effect of environment on ionization of excited atoms embedded in a solid-state cavity......Page 275
Development of universal virtual spectroscope for optoelectronics research: First principles software replacing dielectric constant measurements......Page 279
Quantum Nernst effect......Page 283
Quantum phenomena visualized using electron waves......Page 287
An Optical lattice clock: Ultrastable atomic clock with engineered perturbation......Page 293
Development of Mach-Zehnder interferometer and "coherent beam steering" technique for cold neutrons......Page 299
Surface potential measurement by atomic force microscopy using a quartz resonator......Page 303
Berry's phases and topological properties in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation......Page 307
Self-trapping of Bose-Einstein condensates by oscillating interactions......Page 311
Spinor solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates - Atomic spin transport......Page 315
Spin decoherence in a gravitational field......Page 319
Berry's phase of atoms with different sign of the g-factor in a conical rotating magnetic field observed by a time-domain atom interferometer......Page 323
List of participants......Page 326
Author Index......Page 334