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Quantum Aspects of Optical Communications

Proceedings of a Workshop, Held at the CNRS, Paris, France, 26–28 November 1990

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Cherif Bendjaballah
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  2. Osamu Hirota
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  3. Serge Reynaud
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 378)

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Table of contents (40 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Quantum limits of measurements and uncertainty principle

    • Masanao Ozawa
    Pages 1-17

  3. A quantum experiment uncertainty principle: A general 2nd moment uncertainty relation

    • E. Arthurs, M. S. Goodman
    Pages 18-26

  4. Quantum mechanical description of light propagation

    • Izo I. Abram
    Pages 27-31

  5. Quantum propagation in optical fibres

    • K. J. Blow, R. Loudon, S. J. D. Phoenix
    Pages 32-40

  6. The uncertainty principle in a QND measurement of photon number

    • Hans Martens, Willem M. de Muynck
    Pages 41-50

  7. Some remarks on the phase operator in quantum optics

    • H. le Pas de Secheval, C. Bendjaballah
    Pages 51-58

  8. Quantum state control and nonlinear schrődinger equation

    • Yoshitomi Morikawa, Yoshié Otake Takahara, Osamu Hirota
    Pages 59-67

  9. Quantum entropy and quantum measurements

    • Göran Lindblad
    Pages 79-80

  10. Information dynamics and its applications to optical communication processes

    • Masanori Ohya
    Pages 81-92

  11. Information theory and quantum correlations

    • Simon J. D. Phoenix, Stephen M. Barnett
    Pages 93-100

  12. Physical information theory for 30 years: Basic concepts and results

    • Lev B. Levitin
    Pages 101-110

  13. Quantum nondemolition measurement in optical communication theory

    • Tomohiko Uyematsui, Osamu Hirota, Kohichi Sakaniwa
    Pages 111-119

  14. Information in quantum optical communications

    • A. Vourdas
    Pages 120-123

  15. Statistical inference for quantum processes

    • A.S. Holevo
    Pages 125-137

  16. A new class of quantum states: Examples and applications

    • Luigi Accardi
    Pages 138-150

  17. Continuous non-demolition observation quantum filtering and optimal estimation

    • V. P. Belavkin
    Pages 151-163

  18. Entropy production and nonequilibrium stationarity in quantum dynamical systems

    • Izumi Ojima
    Pages 164-178

  19. Detection theory in quantum optics and quantum stochastic calculus

    • Alberto Barchielli
    Pages 179-189

  20. Calculating photocount distributions by saddlepoint methods

    • Carl W. Helstrom
    Pages 191-202
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Quantum communication theory is receiving much attention as the basis for practical optical communications and quantum measurements. This book is a unique survey of the activities of the leading research groups from mathematical physics, information theory, and various areas in quantum optics. The contributions deal with both theory and foundations of quantum physics together with technical applications.

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