Coherent Evolution in Noisy Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Path Integrals and Their Application to Dissipative Quantum Systems

   • Gert-Ludwig Ingold

   Pages 1-53

3. Five Lectures on Dissipative Master Equations

   • Berthold-Georg Englert, Giovanna Morigi

   Pages 55-106

4. Stochastic Resonance

   • Kurt Wiesenfeld, Thomas Wellens, Andreas Buchleitner

   Pages 107-138

5. Quantum Markov Processes

   • Burkhard Kümmerer

   Pages 139-198

6. Decoherence in Quantum Physics

   • Walter T. Strunz

   Pages 199-233

7. Quantum Communication and Decoherence

   • Hans Aschauer, Hans J. Briegel

   Pages 235-261

8. How to Correct Small Quantum Errors

   • Michael Keyl, Reinhard F. Werner

   Pages 263-286

9. Back Matter

   Pages 287-293

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In the last two decades extraordinary progress in the experimental handling of single quantum objects has spurred theoretical research into investigating the coupling between quantum systems and their environment. Decoherence, the gradual deterioration of entanglement due to dissipation and noise fed to the system by the environment, has emerged as a central concept. The present set of lectures is intended as a high-level, but self-contained, introduction into the fields of quantum noise and dissipation.In particular their influence on decoherence and applications pertaining to quantum information and quantum communication are studied, leading the nonspecialist researchers and the advanced students gradually to the forefront of research.

• Markov process
• decoherence
• master equation
• quantum communication
• quantum noise
• stochastic resonnance

• MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany

  Andreas Buchleitner

• Institut f8ür Experimentalphysik, Universiät Wien, Wien, Austria

  Klaus Hornberger

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