The third NTT-Basic Research Laboratories (BRL) school was held during
the period of October 31-November 4, 2005, at the NTT Atsugi R&D Center.
The aim of the NTT-BRL school is to foster young researchers in the field
of physics field and to promote the international visibility of NTT BRL.
This year the theme selected was "Noise and Decoherence in Quantum
Systems", which is closely related to the research on quantum information
processing that NTT BRL is now conducting intensively. Seven prestigious
professors were invited to the school as lecturers. Thirty-four participants,
mainly Ph. D students, gathered from seventeen countries.
On the first day, after the director and the managers of NTT BRL presented
an overview of NTT BRL, Prof. Boris Altshuler (Columbia University, USA)
gave a lecture entitled "Introduction to Theory of Mesoscopic Systems".
On the second day, there were two lectures, "Quantum Transport and
Electron Dephasing in Diffusive Metal Wires" by Prof. Norman Birge
(Michigan State University, USA) and "Decoherence in the Josephson
Charge Qubits" by Dr. Oleg Astafiev (NEC, Japan), both including the
recent topic of the experimental research. Following them, Prof. Yuri Galperin
(University of Oslo, Norway) gave a talk on "Decoherence in Metallic
Conductors and Mesoscopic Devices (theory)". In the morning of the
third day, a laboratory tour was conducted so that the students could enjoy
looking at the research facilities and activities at NTT BRL. After the
afternoon lecture by Prof. Leonid Levitov (MIT, USA) "Quantum Noise
and Counting Statistics", the poster session was held in the evening,
where each student gave a presentation about his/her research at university.
On the last two days, we had three lectures: "Quantum Shot Noise
Probing Interactions and Magic Properties of the Fermi Sea" by Prof.
Christian Glattli (ENS, France), "Mesoscopics in Quantum Dots"
by Prof. Charles Marcus (Harvard University, USA), and "Transport
in Arrays of Quantum Dots" by Prof. Valerii Vinokur (Argonne National
Laboratories, USA). In the final talk, the director of NTT-BRL, Hideaki
Takaynagi talked about "Readout of Superconducting flux quits".
At the farewell party, best poster prizes were awarded to the students
who gave prominent presentations. The students were able to network and
build friendships while exchanging their contact addresses. NTT BRL will
continue to provide these kinds of occasions to foster young researchers
and build human networks in the field of physics.
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