Quantum Challenges

September 4-7, 2003


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The meeting will have an interdisciplinary character. We aim at defining open problems and the "road map" for the future and would like to focus the meeting on the physics of cold particles, which without doubts determines the frontiers of the modern atomic, molecular and optical physics.

Thursday, September 4
Friday, September 5
Saturday, September 6
New trend with cold atoms
New BEC systems, solitons, cold molecules, fermions, dipolar gases.
Atomic physics meets condensed matter physics
Lattice gases, low dimensional systems, quantum phase transitions, large scattering lengths
Quantum information with cold atoms and ions
Quantum computing and communications, precision measurements and entanglement
900 - 950
Christophe Salomon
Formation of long-lived ultracold Li2 molecules
Immanuel Bloch
Controlling Many Body States of Neutral Atoms in Optical Lattices
Herbert Walther
Generation of Photon Number States on Demand
950 - 1040
Sandro Stringari
Superfluidity of a rotating atomic gas
Peter Zoller
Atomic Quantum Dots
Ignacio Cirac
Entanglement in spin and harmonic oscillator lattices
1040 - 1100
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1100 - 1130
Joseph H. Eberly
Control of Continuum High Entanglement and the EPR Localization Limit in Photon-Atom Scattering
Luis Santos
Dynamics of one-dimensional Bose gases
Krzysztof Wódkiewicz
Bloch Equations and Completely Positive Maps
1130 - 1200
Paul Julienne
Making cold molecules by time-dependent Feshbach resonances
Krzysztof Góral
Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate driven through a Feshbach resonance
Wolfgang Schleich
Entanglement and Correlations in Higher Dimensions
1200 - 1230
Klaus Sengstock
Dynamics of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
Tilman Pfau
Ultracold dipolar gases
Michael Raymer
Entanglement of a wave-packet optical mode and a collective atomic-ensemble mode by stimulated Raman scattering
1230 - 1300
Olivier Morsch
Bose-condensates in periodic potentials - some new aspects
Gora Shlyapnikov
Molecular BEC and atomic BCS in a cold Fermi gas
Michail Ivanov
Quantum information approach to quantum control: using fractional revivals
1300 - 1500
1500 - 1550
Paul Lett
Linearities and Nonlinearities: photoassociation rates, and the production of correlated photons and correlated atoms
Wolfgang Ertmer
BEC -- the ultimate source of coherent matter waves?
Alain Aspect
1550 - 1610
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Eugene Polzik
Light-BEC quantum interface
1550 - 1620
1610 - 1640
Charles Clark
Optimal control of Bose-Einstein condensates and degenerate Fermi gases in harmonic traps
Keith Burnett
Strongly correlated atoms
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1620 - 1640
1640 - 1710
Gerd Leuchs
What can be learnt from optical fiber solitons?
Klaus Moelmer
Atomic and molecular matter fields in periodic potentials
Peter Knight
Quantum Walks and interfering with the Qunincunx
1710 - 1740
Artur Ekert
Quantum Cryptography Revisited
1740 - 1930
1930 -
Poster session

Mail your questions to qch@cft.edu.pl