Table of contents : Contents......Page 8 Preface......Page 6 1 Introduction......Page 14 2 An atom in a laser field......Page 16 3 The stochastic limit......Page 18 4 The quantum master equation......Page 22 5 Stationary states for a two-level atom......Page 23 6 Stationary states for a three-level atom......Page 25 7 Three-level lambda-atom......Page 27 8 Two-level 3-times degenerate atom......Page 28 9 Conclusions......Page 29 References......Page 30 1 Emergence of white noise equations from classical quantum mechanics......Page 31 2 Quantum white noise unitary evolutions......Page 33 3 Higher powers of white noise......Page 35 4 Appplications to quantum stochastic control......Page 36 References......Page 39 1 Introduction......Page 41 2 A master equation driving to a pre-assigned state......Page 43 3 A microscopic model......Page 44 4 The Master equation......Page 45 5 Assimilation of the state......Page 48 6 Purification......Page 52 7 Example: Entangled state with Spin-Boson model......Page 53 References......Page 58 Logical Operations Realized on the Ising Chain of N Qubits......Page 59 1 Introduction......Page 65 3 Product Extension......Page 66 4 A Pair of Pure and General States for Two Subsystems......Page 68 5 Examples......Page 70 References......Page 71 1 Inroduction......Page 72 2 The Model......Page 73 3 Quantum Filtering......Page 75 4 Control......Page 78 References......Page 81 1 Introduction and the result......Page 85 2 Proof sketch of Theorems 1.1 and 1.2......Page 89 3 An example......Page 92 References......Page 93 1 Introduction......Page 94 2 Generalities and notation......Page 95 3 Control procedures......Page 98 4 The Zeno subspaces......Page 105 5 Summary and concluding remarks......Page 106 References......Page 108 1 Introduction......Page 110 2 CH inequality for the full counting statistics......Page 112 3 Results......Page 114 References......Page 124 1 Introduction......Page 126 2 Basic Notions and Notations......Page 127 3 Teleportation scheme with tests 4......Page 134 4 Teleportation and fidelity......Page 135 References......Page 142 Quantum Logical Gates Realized by Beam Splittings......Page 144 1 Introduction......Page 145 2 The Boson Fock Space......Page 147 3 A General Beam Splitting Model......Page 150 4 The Splitting Procedures......Page 155 5 Splitting Functions fulfilling the Truth Table......Page 156 References......Page 159 1 Introduction......Page 162 2 Axiomatic Properties of Relative Information......Page 163 3 Examples of Relative Information for States......Page 165 4 Relative Information for Channels......Page 169 References......Page 176 0 Introduction......Page 180 1 Extended Chentsov Theorem for noncommutative (finite-dimensional matrix) manifolds......Page 182 2 Derivation and Frechet differentiation......Page 184 3 Classical and quantum a-divergence......Page 185 4 Proof of the uniqueness for matrix manifolds-Main theorem in the nonparametric version......Page 188 5 Parametrization of the matrix manifold......Page 191 6 A Concluding Remark-on Tsallis statistics......Page 192 References......Page 193 1 Introduction......Page 194 2 d-dimensional Brownian motions......Page 195 References......Page 198 2 White noise analysis......Page 199 4 Innovation......Page 201 References......Page 207 2 White noise analysis......Page 208 4 Innovation......Page 210 5 Path integrals......Page 212 References......Page 215 1 Introduction......Page 217 2 Generalized Quantum Turing Machine......Page 218 3 SAT Problem......Page 223 4 SAT Algorithm......Page 226 5 SAT algorithm in GQTM......Page 231 References......Page 237 1 Introduction......Page 239 2 Polynomial Representation of Flows......Page 242 3 The Minimal Number of Observables for Qudits Governed by Gaussian Semigroups......Page 244 References......Page 247 1 Introduction......Page 248 2 A Class of Positive Maps in Mn......Page 250 References......Page 256 1 Introduction......Page 258 2 Quantum Brownian motion: the exact dynamics......Page 260 3 Time evolution of the mean energy: Lindblad-type and non-Lindblad-type dynamics......Page 263 4 Experiment for simulating QBM with trapped ions......Page 266 References......Page 269 1 Introduction......Page 272 2 General Framework of Purification Through Repeated Measurements......Page 273 3 Purification of a Qubit......Page 276 4 Entanglement Distillation I......Page 278 5 Entanglement Distillation II......Page 281 6 Summary......Page 284 References......Page 285 1 Unified scheme for micro and macro......Page 287 2 Broken symmetry in micro-macro composite system; B=order parameter of broken scale inv.......Page 291 3 Summary and outlook: method of "variation of natural constants"......Page 296 References......Page 297 1 Introduction......Page 298 2 Strong subadditivity of entropy......Page 299 3 Quantum Markov states......Page 301 References......Page 303 1 Introduction......Page 305 2 Basic Elememts of White Noise Calculus......Page 306 3 The Levy Laplacian Acting on Levy White Noise Functionals......Page 308 4 The Levy Laplacian Acting on WNF-valued Functions......Page 310 5 An Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Process Associated with the Levy Laplacian......Page 311 References......Page 314 1 Introduction......Page 317 2 An illustrative example Linear functionals of Poisson noise......Page 318 3 Innovation of a linear process......Page 319 4 Determination of kernels......Page 321 References......Page 324 Group Theory of Dynamical Maps......Page 326 2 Quantum Analysis......Page 337 3 Quantum Transfer-Matrix Method based on Exponential Product Formulas and its Connection with Quantum Information......Page 339 4 Effective Information Entropy......Page 341 5 Summary and Discussion......Page 342 References......Page 343 1 Introduction......Page 345 2 Model......Page 346 3 Stochastic Limit Approach......Page 348 4 Nonequilibrium Steady States in C*-algebraic Approach......Page 349 5 Weak coupling limits......Page 355 6 Summary and Discussion......Page 356 References......Page 363 1 Introduction......Page 365 2 Formulation......Page 366 3 Numerical evaluation......Page 368 4 Discussion and Concluding Remarks......Page 370 References......Page 372 1 Entanglement......Page 373 2 Quantum Key Distribution using Polarization Entangled Photons......Page 376 3 Purification of Entanglement......Page 379 References......Page 382 On Quantum Mutual Type Measures and Capacity......Page 383 1 Quantum Channels......Page 384 2 Ohya Mutual Entropy......Page 388 3 Comparison of various quantum mutual type entropies......Page 390 4 Quantum Capacity......Page 392 References......Page 395