Contents -- Preface -- Introductory Concepts -- 1. Introductory Concepts -- 1.1 Multiparticle Interferometry and the Superposition Principle -- 1.2 Quantum Entanglement: A Fundamental Concept Finding its Applications -- 1.3 Experiment and the Foundations of Quantum Physics -- Quantum Entanglement Manipulation -- 2. Quantum Entanglement Manipulation -- 2.1 Teleporting an Unknown Quantum State via Dual Classic and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Channels -- 2.2 Experimental Quantum Teleportation -- 2.3 Teleportation of Continuous Quantum Variables -- 2.4 Going Beyond Bell's Theorem -- 2.5 What is Wrong with These Elements of Reality -- 2.6 Observation of Three-Photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Entanglement -- Quantum Algorithms -- 3. Quantum Algorithms -- 3.1 An Overview of Quantum Computing -- 3.2 On Quantum Algorithms -- Quantum Complexity -- 4. An Introduction to Quantum Complexity Theory -- Quantum Error Correction -- 5. Quantum Error Correction -- 5.1 Scheme for Reducing Decoherence in Quantum Computer Memory -- 5.2 Error Correcting Codes in Quantum Theory -- 5.3 Class of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes Saturating the Quantum Hamming Bound -- 5.4 Fault-Tolerant Error Correction with Efficient Quantum Codes -- Quantum Channels -- 6. Quantum Channels -- 6.1 General Scheme of Measurement Processes -- 6.2 Completely Positive Linear Maps on Complex Matrices -- 6.3 Sending Entanglement Through Noisy Quantum Channels -- 6.4 Noncommuting Mixed States Cannot Be Broadcast -- 6.5 Sending Classical Information via Noisy Quantum Channels -- 6.6 Nonorthogonal Quantum States Maximize Classical Information Capacity -- Entanglement Purification and Long-Distance Quantum Communication -- 7. Long-Distance Quantum Communication.

7.1 Quantum Repeaters: The Role of Imperfect Local Operations in Quantum Communication -- 7.2 Purification of Noisy Entanglement and Faithful Teleportation via Noisy Channels -- 7.3 Quantum Privacy Amplification and the Security of Quantum Cryptography over Noisy Channels -- 7.4 Photonic Channels for Quantum Communication -- Quantum Key Distribution -- 8. Quantum Key Distribution -- 8.1 Quantum Cryptography -- 8.2 Practical Aspects of Quantum Cryptographic Key Distribution -- 8.3 Quantum Key Distribution: From Principles to Practicalities -- Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics -- 9. Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics -- 9.1 Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics -- 9.2 Measurement of Conditional Phase Shifts for Quantum Logic -- 9.3 Real-Time Cavity QED with Single Atoms -- 9.4 Quantum Memory with a Single Photon in a Cavity -- 9.5 Observing the Progressive Decoherence of the "Meter" in a Quantum Measurement -- 9.6 Inversion of Quantum Jumps in Quantum Optical Systems under Continuous Observation -- Quantum Computation with Ion Traps -- 10. Quantum Computation with Ion Traps -- 10.1 Electromagnetic Traps for Charged and Neutral Particles -- 10.2 Quantum Computations with Cold Trapped Ions -- 10.3 New Ion Trap for Frequency Standard Applications -- 10.4 Ion Strings for Quantum Gates -- 10.5 Quantum Dynamics of Cold Trapped Ions with Application to Quantum Computation -- 10.6 Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate -- 10.7 Deterministic Entanglement of Two Trapped Ions -- Josephson Junctions and Quantum Computation -- 11. Josephson Junctions and Quantum Computation -- 11.1 Mesoscopic Effects in Superconductivity -- 11.2 Quantum Manipulations of Small Josephson Junctions -- 11.3 Josephson-Junction Qubits with Controlled Couplings -- Quantum Computing in Optical Lattices.

12. Quantum Information in Optical Lattices -- 12.1 Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms -- Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication with Electrons -- 13. Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication with Electrons -- 13.1 Quantum Computation with Quantum Dots -- 13.2 Coupled Quantum Dots as Quantum Gates -- 13.3 Quantum Computers and Quantum Coherence -- NMR Quantum Computing -- 14. Quantum Computing with NMR -- 14.1 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: An Experimentally Accessible Paradigm for Quantum Computing -- 14.2 Implementation of a Quantum Algorithm on a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Quantum Computer -- 14.3 Experimental Implementation of Fast Quantum Searching -- 14.4 An Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm on a Three-Qubit NMR Quantum Computer -- Selected Bibliography.