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About EQD

January 28-30, 2008

The Workshop on Entanglement and Quantum Decoherence (EQD) is intended to provide an opportunity for extended expert interaction on a number of linked topics that have become widely interesting recently. A shared basis in concepts and techniques that were originally associated with quantum optics can serve as an interface between different specific themes.

These include:

  • decoherence effects associated with environmental noise;
  • quantification and control of qubit, qutrit, multi-qubit and continuous-variable entanglement;
  • correlated and cooperative relaxation and their control;
  • adiabatic and non-Markovian evolution of open quantum systems and their control;
  • quantum measurements and their back-action;
  • quantum trajectories and their relation to quantum dynamics and measurements;
  • quantum thermodynamics and its control; and
  • quantum entanglement implications outside of the quantum information context.

Reports associated with realizations or phenomenology of the above themes in photonics, nonlinear and quantum optics, spintronics, cold and ultracold atoms and ions, superconductors and other condensed matter systems, are all welcomed and anticipated. Considerations closely related to practical device design and operation fall outside the scope of the Workshop.

EQD will be held in conjunction with the Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) Topical Meeting at the 2008 OSA Winter Optics and Photonics Congress at the Nara-Ken New Public Hall in Nara, Japan.  ASSP and EQD will share the site and hold parallel sessions . Congress participants are welcome at all sessions , space permitting.

Please note that in order to ensure opportunity for extensive personal conversation and interaction during EQD, there will be regular open periods in the program, and total attendance will be strictly limited to 50 people. Registration will be permitted only on a first-come first-served basis.

Important Dates

Submissions open October 19, 2007 (limited capacity and rolling acceptance)
Housing Deadline: December 25, 2007
Pre-Registration: January 3, 2008