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In 2001, the Nobel Foundation celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first Nobel Prize, and all previous Nobel laureates were invited to attend the Nobel ceremonies in Sweden. This gave an excellent opportunity for arranging jubilee symposia with topics that would attract several of the laureates. The chosen subject of ""Condensation and Coherence in Condensed Systems"" attracted 16 Nobel laureates and another 35 leading scientists. The idea was to bring scientists together from several related subdisciplines: atomic physics, quantum optics, and condensed matter physics, for cross-breeding of ideas, concepts, and experience. Subjects like phase transitions in strongly coupled systems, Bose Einstein condensation in weakly coupled systems, macroscopic quantum phenomena, coherence in mesoscopic structures, and quantum information were intensively discussed from different points of view. Coherence phenomena in condensed systems were emphasized. A special session was devoted to the emerging field of quantum computing, with experimental and theoretical results reported for different types of qu-bits. The 2001 Nobel Prize awarded to Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman, ""for the achievement of Bose Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates,"" gave an extra flavour to the theme of the Centennial Symposium.

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Author:   T Claeson (Chalmers Univ, Sweden) ,  P Delsing (Chalmers Univ, Sweden) ,  Katarina Lundin (The Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences, Sweden)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN:  

9789812383532

ISBN 10:   9812383530
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   21 March 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Quantum Coherence Between States with Even and Odd Numbers of Electrons (A F Andreev); Electron Spin in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (P E Lindelof et al.); Superfluidity and Coherence in Bose-Einstein Condensates (W Ketterle); Jahn-Teller Bipolarons and Their Condensation (K A Muller); Probing Quantum Mechanics Towards the Everyday World: Where Do We Stand? (A J Leggett); The Question of Phase in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (S Stenholm); Experiments with d-Wave Superconductors (J Mannhart et al.); Noise and Decoherence in Quantum Two-Level Systems (A Shnirman et al.); Coherent Manipulations of Charge-Number States in a Cooper-Pair Box (Y Nakamura et al.); Quiet Readout of Superconducting Flux States (J Clarke et al.); and other papers.

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