LHSOPS09

Programme 

Structure and timetable of the Les Houches Summer School in Singapore

(29 June – 24 July 2009)

The «Les Houches Summer School in Singapore» consists of two sub-sessions, one on quantum degenerate gases (46h) and one on quantum information (46h). The total duration of the session is thus 92h. Each sub-session will contain four 10h-long lectures, given during week 1 and week 2 of the School, adressing the fundamentals and basic concepts in the field. These lectures will be supplemented by shorter lectures on dedicated topics of importance in the field.

4 Fundamental courses (10h):

- Quantum Information (QI): Valerio Scarani (CQT, National University of Singapore, Singapore).
  QI Lecture Notes,  QI Tutorials.

- Quantum Computing and Entanglement (QC): Dagmar Bruss (University of Düsseldorf, Germany) and Chiara Macchiavello (University of Pavia, Italy).

- Degenerate Bosons (DB): David Guéry-Odelin (LCAR, University of Toulouse, France). 
  DB Lecture 1,  DB Lecture 2, DB Lecture 3, DB Lecture 4, DB Lecture 5.

- Degenerate Fermions (DF): Patrizia Vignolo (INLN, University of Nice, France). 

8 Topical courses:

- Quantum Cryptography (QCr), 6h: Norbert Lütkenhaus (University of Waterloo, Canada).

- Quantum Information Processing, Solid-State Devices (SSD), 6h: Daniel Estève (CEA, Saclay).

- Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Optics Devices (QOD), 8h : Christian Kurtsiefer (CQT, National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Antia Lamas-Linarès (CQT, National University of Singapore, Singapore).

- Quantum Information Processing, Ions and Atoms Devices (IAD), 6h: Jürgen Eschner (Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain).
IAD Lecture 1, IAD Lecture 2 and 3.

- Disorder and Interference: Localization Phenomena (WL), 8h: Dominique Delande (LKB University Paris 6, France) and Cord Müller (University of Bayreuth, Germany).
   WL Exercise, WL List of references

- Quantum Phase Transitions (QPT), 6h: George Batrouni (INLN, University of Nice, France).
  QPT Lecture Notes

- Quantum Hall effects (QHE), 6h: Mark Oliver Goerbig (LPS, University Paris 11, France).
  QHE Exercise1, QHE Notes, QHE Lecture Slides.
  Further reading:
  S. Girvin, The Quantum Hall Effect: Novel Excitations and Broken Symmetries, Les Houches Summer School 1998
  G. Murthy and R. Shankar, Hamiltonian Theories of the FQH, Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, 1101 (2003)

- Fermi and Lüttinger Liquids (FL), 6h: Thierry Giamarchi (University of Geneva, Switzerland). 
  FL Lecture Notes, A1, A2, A3, A4

Timetables:

  * Lesson on Quantum Information will be held from 14:00 - 16:00 on 29 June 09.

  *The school will end one day earlier. There will be a farewell party on Thur 23 evening.