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.
