Quantum Optics

1st Annual German-Japanese Colloquium

Jointly organised by:JSPS and MPG
Date: February 9–11, 2004
Venue: Wildbad Kreuth
 

PROGRAM

February 9th

14:00

Welcome

H. Walther, K. Iga, Y. Yamamoto

14:30

Silica Microspheres for Single-Atom Detectionin Microchip Traps

R. Long

15:00

Controlled Generation of Single Photons in a High-Finesse Optical Cavity

M. Hennrich

15:30

Cavity QED with Trapped Ions

W. Lange

16:00Coffee Break
16:30

Entanglement Distillation – Explicit and Implicit Use

M. Koashi

17:00

Entangled Atoms from Dissociating Molecules

T. Walther

17:30

Generation of Entangled Photons from a Semiconductor 

K. Edamatsu

February 10th

09:00

Distinguishing Genuine Entangled Two-Photon-Polarization States

S. Takeuchi

09:30

Quantum Communication with Intense Light Pulses and Solitons

N. Lütkenhaus

10:00

Multi-Photon Interferometry

H. Weinfurter

10:30Coffee Break
11:00

Realization of a Quantum Register with Single Neutral Atoms in an Optical Dipole Trap

A. Rauschenbeutel

11:30

New Concepts of Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions

Ch. Wunderlich

12:00

Collective Atomic Motion in a Resonator Dipole Trap

C. Zimmermann

12:30Lunch
14:00

Ultra Slow Propagation of Squeezed Vacuum by Using Electro-Magnetically Induced Transparency

M. Kozuma

14:30

Small Scale Quantum Computing for Quantum Communication: from Theory to Experiment

M. Sasaki

15:00

Entanglement Theory for Gaussian States

M. Wolf

15:30Coffee Break
16:00

Multiplexed Quantum Cryptography with Photons from Single Quantum Dots

O. Benson

16:30

Quantum Dots, Nanocrystals, and Microsphere Resonators. New Tools for Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics

S. Götzinger

17:00

Spin Qubits with Quantum Dots

S. Tarucha

17:30

MPG-JSPS Cooperation

B. Neizert, K. Iga

February 11th

09:00

Factoring Numbers Using Gauss Sums

W. Schleich

09:30

Atomic Quantum Systems in Optical Micro-Structures

G. Birkl

10:00Coffee Break
10:30

Seeking for Entanglement in NMR Quantum Information Processing Experiments

M. Kitagawa

11:00

Ultrastable Optical Clock with Neutral Atoms in an Engineered Light Shift Trap

H. Katori

11:30

Single Ion Frequency Standards

J. v. Zanthier

12:00

Femtosecond Metrology

T. Udem

12:30Lunch
14:00

BEC of Excitons

Y. Yamamoto

14:30

Quantum Phase Transition of BECs in Low Dimensions

M. Ueda

15:00Coffee Break
15:30

Multi-Component Quantum Gases – Magnetism and Further Developments

K. Bongs

16:00

Ultracold Dipolar Gases

T. Pfau

16:30

Final Discussion