Abstracts

All submitted abstracts are being reviewed by Conference organizers. Authors of accepted papers will be notified after May 1,2004

Quantum Computation and Information

Sergey Babichev Continuous-variable experiments with a nonlocal single photon
Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay Entangling capacities of noisy non-local Hamiltonians
Dan Browne Efficient linear optics quantum computation with Bell States
Tommaso Calarco Exploiting quantum control for quantum computation in optical lattices: marker atoms and molecular interactions
Hilary Carteret Preparing high purity entangled states for NMR quantum computing
Jose M. Fernandez Theoretical Methods and Experimental Implementation of Heat-Bath Algorithmic Cooling
J.D. Franson Quantum Computing Using Single Photons and the Zeno Effect
Shohini Ghose Entanglement Dynamics in a Chaotic System
Debbie Leung A systematic derivation of measurement-based schemes for quantum computation
Ashwin Nayak A quantum algorithm for the Ising model
G J Pryde Non-destructive weak measurement of a photonic qubit
Yaoyun Shi Quantum and Classical Tradeoffs
Anatoly Yu. Smirnov Decoherence and noise control in strongly driven superconducting quantum bits
Philip Walther Quantum Logics using Four-Photon Entanglement

Quantum Cryptography

Jean Christian Boileau Polarization-Based Quantum Key Distribution Without Shared Reference Frame
Kai Chen Conference key-agreement and secret sharing through noisy GHZ states
Barry C. Sanders Optical quantum fingerprinting
Kiyoshi Tamaki Unconditional Security of the Bennett 1992 quantum key-distribution protocol over a lossy and noisy channel
J.A. Vaccaro Secure quantum protocols for voting

Quantum Control

Robert Badzey Quantum Coherent Effects in the Presence of External Control Fields
Victor S. Batista Creating molecular entanglement in functionalized semiconductor nanostructures
Ignacio Franco Coherent Control of Charge Transport in Photoexcited trans-Polyacetylene
Jiangbin Gong Entanglement-assisted Coherent Control in Bimolecular Scattering
Timothy F. Havel Quantum Control of Spin Systems by NMR
Robert Kosut Quantum Tomography and Detection: Design via Convex Optimization
Vladimir S. Malinovsky Quantum control of entanglement by phase manipulation
Dan Oron All-optical processing in coherent nonlinear spectroscopy
Ioannis Thanopulos Quantum Coherent Control of Current and Chiral Cat States
Arlene D. Wilson-Gordon Highly efficient frequency conversion in double lambda systems without maximal atomic coherence
Howard Wiseman Feedback Control of Open Quantum Systems with Linear Dynamics: Recent Results

Quantum Error Correction

Charlene Ahn Quantum error correction for continuously detected errors
Kaveh Khodjasteh Concatenated Dynamical Decoupling Pulse Sequences
Antonio Di Lisi Closed loop techniques for decoherence control and entanglement manipulation
Masoud Mohseni Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with the Exchange Interaction
Robert Raussendorf Fault-tolerant quantum computation using graph states
Chikako Uchiyama Non-Markovian Effect and Control of Quantum Information