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Editorial p. V

Philippe Blanchard, Erwin Brüning and Francesco Petruccione

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00686-x

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On the prospects of interferometry and deflectometry for characterizing large molecules p. 1

M. Arndt, M. Berninger, S. Deachapunya, S. Gerlich, L. Hackermüller, A. G. Major, M. Marksteiner, A. Stéfanov and H. Ulbricht

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00687-9

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Controllable 3D atomic Brownian motor in optical lattices p. 11

C. M. Dion, P. Sjölund, S. J.H. Petra, S. Jonsell, M. Nylén, L. Sanchez-Palencia and A. Kastberg

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00688-8

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Schrödinger cat states and decoherence studies in cavity QED p. 19

S. Haroche, M. Brune and J.-M. Raimond

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00689-7

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Test of quantum mechanics by neutron interferometry p. 27

H. Rauch

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00690-2

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Composite systems: Entanglement, envariance, events and Born's rule p. 37

Ph. Blanchard

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00691-1

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Measures and dynamics of entanglement p. 47

A. Buchleitner, A. R.R. Carvalho and F. Mintert

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00692-0

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Exchangeable qubit states - Remarks on the multiplicativity of the two-norm p. 57

M. Fannes and C. Vandenplas

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00693-y

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Estimation of concurrence for multipartite mixed states p. 71

X.-H. Gao and S.-M. Fei

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00694-x

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What has a symmetry violation in particle physics to do with non-locality? p. 79

B. C. Hiesmayr

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00695-9

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Quantum computing using isolated qubits p. 85

P. Kok and S. D. Barrett

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00696-8

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Announcing single photons from imperfect sources by means of “interaction-free" measurements p. 93

T. Konrad, A. Scherer, M. Nock and J. Audretsch

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00697-7

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Single and two-qubit dynamics in circuit QED architectures p. 101

R. Migliore and A. Messina

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00698-6

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Coherent control of single photon states p. 113

G. J. Milburn

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00699-5

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Decoherence scenarios in the algebraic framework p. 119

R. Olkiewicz

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00700-5

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The atom diode - A one-way laser barrier for cooling atoms p. 127

A. Ruschhaupt and J. G. Muga

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00701-4

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Kinetic description of quantum Brownian motion p. 135

B. Vacchini and F. Petruccione

Published online: 21 May 2008

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00702-3

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