By C. Cohen-Tannoudji (auth.), N. P. Bigelow, J. H. Eberly, C. R. Stroud, I. A. Walmsley (eds.)
The 8th Rochester convention on Coherence and Quantum Optics was once hung on the campus of the college of Rochester throughout the interval June 13-16,2001. This quantity includes the lawsuits of the assembly. The assembly used to be preceded via an affiliated convention, the foreign convention on Quantum info, with a few overlapping classes on June thirteen. The lawsuits of the affiliated convention could be released individually by way of the Optical Society of the US. a number of papers that have been offered in universal plenary periods of the 2 meetings could be released in either lawsuits volumes. greater than 268 scientists from 28 nations participated within the week lengthy discussions and shows. This convention differed from the former seven within the CQO sequence in different methods, crucial of which was once the absence of Leonard Mandel. Professor Mandel died a couple of months ahead of the convention. a different memorial symposium in his honor was once held on the finish of the convention. The displays from that symposium are incorporated during this complaints quantity. An innovation, that we think made a major contribution to the convention, was once the inclusion of a chain of invited lectures chaired through CQO founder Emil Wolf, reviewing the historical past of the fields of coherence and quantum optics earlier than approximately 1970. those got via 3 fashionable members within the improvement of the sphere, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, 1. F. Clauser, and R. I. Glauber.
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He then points out that this assumed requirement has no a priori reason to hold, in general, for a hidden-variables theory, especially when different operators correspond to physically different measuring apparatuses, and when these eigenvalues are also to be taken as the possible measurement outcomes for the associated apparatus. Furthermore, without this linearity assumption, von Neumann's argument neither obtains, nor constrains hidden-variable theories. Correspondingly, hidden variables are then no longer found to be "impossible" for alternative theories (to quantum mechanics) by von Neumann's argument.
Interaction atom - single mode laser field When lasers appeared in the sixties, one important theoretical problem which was raised was the description of an atom interacting with a single mode coherent field. Two models were then developed in connection with this problem. 1. Jaynes-Cummings model In this model [50], a two-level atom is put in a single mode cavity and interacts with a single-mode electromagnetic field. Formally, we have a spin Y2 coupled to a onedimensional harmonic oscillator. This model has proved to be extremely useful a few years later when experiments started to be achieved in what is called now cavity QED.
Good optical resonators When lasers started to be built in the early sixties, some physicists soon realized that tbe confocal Fabry-Perot, developed by P. Connes a few years before [40-,41]· was very useful. Such a scheme uses a cavity formed by two spherical mirrors having equal radii of curvature and coincident foci. It turned out to be a very convenient optical resonator and it played an important role in the development oflaser source. Another example of development which occurred in the sixties in France was the pulse compression scheme and the Gires-Tournois interferometer[42J.