Quantum Interference and Coherence

This book brings together and discusses for the first time detailed analyses of the experiments with trapped ions, experiments on quantum beats, coherent population trapping, electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), electromagnetically induced absorption, creation of dark-states polaritons, subluminal and superluminal light, realization of a Fock state, and interference experiments in atom optics on atom grating, momentum distribution, and atom tunneling. This book is unique in many respects and will fill a gap in the literature.For the first time, this book assembles in a single volume accounts §of many phenomena involving quantum interference in optical fields §and atomic systems. It provides detailed theoretical treatments and §experimental analyses of such phenomena as quantum erasure, quantum §lithography, multi-atom entanglement, quantum beats, control of §decoherence, phase control of quantum interference, coherent §population trapping, electromagnetically induced transparency and §absorption, lasing without inversion, subluminal and superluminal §light propagation, storage of photons, quantum interference in phase §space, interference and diffraction of cold atoms, and interference §between Bose-Einstein condensates. This book fills a gap in the §literature and will be useful to both experimentalists and theoreticians.