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.
Classical and Quantum Interference and Coherence.- Quantum Interference in Atomic Systems: Mathematical Formalism.- Superposition States and Modification of Spontaneous Emission Rates.- Quantum Interference as a Control of Decoherence.- Coherence Effects in Multi-Level Systems.- Field Induced Quantum Interference.- Slow and Fast Light and Storage of Photons.- Quantum Interference in Phase Space.- Quantum Interference in Atom Optics.