edited by L Accardi (Università di Roma, Italy) , M Ohya (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) , & N Watanabe (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

The main purpose of this volume is to emphasize the multidisciplinary aspects of this very active new line of research in which concrete technological and industrial realizations require the combined efforts of experimental and theoretical physicists, mathematicians and engineers.

• Coherent Quantum Control of Λ-Atoms through the Stochastic Limit (L Accardi et al.)
• Recent Advances in Quantum White Noise Calculus (L Accardi & A Boukas)
• Joint Extension of States of Fermion Subsystems (H Araki)
• Fidelity of Quantum Teleportation Model Using Beam Splittings (K-H Fichtner et al.)
• Quantum Logical Gates Realized by Beam Splittings (W Freudenberg et al.)
• Noncanonical Representations of a Multi-dimensional Brownian Motion (Y Hibino)
• Information, Innovation and Elemental Random Field (T Hida)
• Generalized Sectors and Adjunctions to Control Micro–Macro Transitions (I Ojima)
• Saturation of an Entropy Bound and Quantum Markov States (D Petz)
• An Infinite Dimensional Laplacian Acting on Some Class of Lévy White Noise Functionals (K Saitô)
• Structure of Linear Processes (S Si & W W Htay)
• Group Theory of Dynamical Maps (E C G Sudarshan)
• Quantum Entanglement, Purification, and Linear-optics Quantum Gates with Photonic Qubits (P Walther & A Zeilinger)
• On Quantum Mutual Type Measures and Capacity (N Watanabe)
• and other papers