Quantiki

List of topics:

Foundations of quantum physics
Non-equilibrium quantum statistical physics
Quantum thermodynamics
Quantum measurement, entanglement and coherence
Dissipation, dephasing, noise and decoherence
Quantum optics
Macroscopic quantum behavior, e.g. cold atoms, Bose-Einstein condensates
Physics of quantum computing and quantum information
Mesoscopic, nano-electromechanical and nano-optical systems
Spin systems and their dynamics
Biological systems, molecular motors
Cosmology, gravitation and astrophysics

The workshop is devoted to latest developments in quantum information:

- topological quantum computation, monoidal categories, modular functors, topological quantum field theory, quantum knots, anyons and fractional quantum Hall effect.
- measurement based quantum computation and optical lattices.
- adiabatic quantum computation and Josephson junction.
- simulation of physical systems, frustration free models, matrix product states and AKLT.
- measures of entanglement and spin chains.
- quantum state transfer

This is a third edition of the Winter School on Practical Quantum Cryptography taking place in the Swiss Alps in January 2011.

The goal of this Winter School is to introduce, to a general audience of physicists and computer scientists with little or no background in practical quantum cryptography, this exciting topic in a relaxed and stimulating atmosphere. Special emphasis will be put on practical quantum cryptography system design. The emerging applications of this promising technology will also be discussed.

The school is aimed at an audience of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and junior post-docs. It comprises four lecture series on modern topics of quantum physics, held by international experts of the respective fields.