Title -- Preface -- Contents -- Quantum Cryptography -- Optimal local protocols for processing of entangled states - local cloning and eavesdropping -- Commercial potential of quantum cryptography -- Quantum voting via NV centers in diamond -- Tools for optical implementations of quantum communication protocols with application to quantum key distribution -- Phase-time coding quantum cryptography -- Simplifying information-theoretic arguments by post-selection -- QKD: a million signal task -- On practical implementations of qudit-based quantum key distribution protocols -- Trusted noise in continuous-variable quantum key distribution -- Eavesdropping on the LM05 secure communication protocol -- Quantum Computing -- Quantum algorithms for formula evaluation -- Tradeoffs for reliable quantum information storage in 2D systems -- Quantum algorithm for preparing thermal Gibbs states - detailed analysis -- Spin-Hamiltonian analysis of quantum registers on single NV center and proximal 13C nuclei in diamond -- Physics for Quantum Information Processing -- Multimode detection of broadband squeezed vacuum -- Superadditivity of multiple access gaussian channels -- Multi-pixel sources of entangled light in the correlation measurements without homodyne detection -- Nonmultiplicativity of probability of faithful teleportation in the Knill-Laflamme-Milburn scheme -- Continuous variable entanglement creation by means of small cross-Kerr nonlinearity -- Multi mode nano scale Raman echo quantum memory -- Local bounds for general Bell inequalities with the reduced entropy of the settings -- Atomic quantum memories for light -- Observable measures of entanglement -- Solid state hybrid devices for quantum information processing -- Subject Index -- Author Index.