Chiral Dynamics 2006 is the 5th International Workshop which examines the implications and the development of an approximate low-energy solution to the QCD Lagrangian based upon Chiral Symmetry. Advances in theory and experiment are presented in 20 plenary session papers along with more than one-hundred papers, including summaries, from the three working groups. Sample Chapter(s). Part 1.1: Opening Remarks: Experimental Tests of Chiral Symmetry Breaking (311 KB). Contents: Some Recent Developments in Chiral Perturbation Theory (U-G Meiner); Recent Results from HAPPEX (R Michaels); Kaon Physics: Recent Experimental Progress (M Moulson); Recent KTeV Results on Radiative Kaon Decays (M C Ronquest); Partially Quenched CHPT Results to Two Loops (J Bijnens); Finite Volume Effects: Lattice Meets CHPT (G Schierholz); Quark Mass Dependence of LECs in the Two-Flavour Sector (M Schmid); Leading Chiral Logarithms from Unitarity, Analyticity and the Roy Equations (A Fuhrer); Power Counting in Nuclear Chiral Effective Field Theory (U van Kolck); The Challenge of Calculating Baryon-Baryon Scattering from Lattice QCD (S R Beane); Few-Body Studies at KVI (J G Messchendorp); Compton Scattering on HE-3 (D Choudhury); Lattice Discretization Errors in Chiral Effective Field Theories (B C Tiburzi); Uncertainty Bands for Chiral Extrapolations (B U Musch); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students and academics in nuclear physics.

A comprehensive overview of fundamental concepts of asymmetric synthesis along with in-depth discussion. Recent developments that address important synthetic challenges are presented and highlighted with hundreds of examples.

Chiral Perturbation Theory, as effective field theory, is a commonly accepted and well established working tool, approximating quantum chromodynamics at energies well below typical hadron masses. This volume, based on a number of lectures and supplemented with additional material, provides a pedagogical introduction for graduate students and newcomers entering the field from related areas of nuclear and particle physics. Starting with the the Lagrangian of the strong interactions and general symmetry principles, the basic concepts of Chiral Perturbation Theory in the mesonic and baryonic sectors are developed. The application of these concepts is then illustrated with a number of examples. A large number of exercises (81, with complete solutions) are included to familiarize the reader with helpful calculational techniques.

The QNP series of international conferences on Quarks and Nuclear Physics is by now a well established and highly respected forum where the most recent developments in the field are discussed and communicated. QNP 2006 is the forth edition of this biennial meeting. Selected and refereed original contributions of QNP 2006 have been published in The European Physical Journal A - Hadrons and Nuclei (EPJ A), while the present proceedings book, in addition to reprinting the articles published in EPJ A, further includes all other contributions selected and accepted by the organizing committee for publication and archiving.

The present book provides to the main ideas and techniques of the rapid progressing field of quantum information and quantum computation using isotope - mixed materials. It starts with an introduction to the isotope physics and then describes of the isotope - based quantum information and quantum computation. The ability to manipulate and control electron and/or nucleus spin in semiconductor devices provides a new route to expand the capabilities of inorganic semiconductor-based electronics and to design innovative devices with potential application in quantum computing. One of the major challenges towards these objectives is to develop semiconductor-based systems and architectures in which the spatial distribution of spins and their properties can be controlled. For instance, to eliminate electron spin decoherence resulting from hyperfine interaction due to nuclear spin background, isotopically controlled devices are needed (i.e., nuclear spin-depleted). In other emerging concepts, the control of the spatial distribution of isotopes with nuclear spins is a prerequisite to implement the quantum bits (or qbits). Therefore, stable semiconductor isotopes are important elements in the development of solid-state quantum information. There are not only different algorithms of quantum computation discussed but also the different models of quantum computers are presented. With numerous illustrations this small book is of great interest for undergraduate students taking courses in mesoscopic physics or nanoelectronics as well as quantum information, and academic and industrial researches working in this field.