Yanhua Shih & Francesco De Martini et al. : Quantum Interferometry - Proceedings of an Adriatico Workshop, Trieste, March 1996

One century after the discovery of the quanta and their basic properties, the interdisciplinary science of ´Quantum Interferometry´ retains its original role of being the crossing road between theoretical analysis and interpretation, physics and philosophy, settlement of principles and the prospect for new endeavours. In recent decades the technological achievements have allowed the realization of many earlier gedanken experiments. This has cleared up many issues of previous debate on the foundations by opening, at the same time, new fields of investigation on still subtler aspects of the theory. Furthermore, this evolution has stimulated the birth of new important research of more technological character aimed at the development of practical devices of future general interest, e.g. the new sciences of ´Atom–Optics´, the ´Cavity QED´ in cavities and microcavities, solid–state nanostructures and ´Quantum Computation´. This book collects the texts of lectures given by foremost experts concerning the various modern aspects of ´Quantum Interferometry´ at an Adriatico Conference held, with the same title, in Trieste in March 1996.