Since 1951, the prestigious Les Houches summer school has given rigorous graduate programmes in France. In July 2009, the first Les Houches school outside Europe took place in Singapore. This volume gathers the lectures conducted at the four-week school, focused on two exciting key topics: quantum information science and ultracold atomic physics.

• 1: David Guéry-Odelin and T. Lahaye: Basics on Bose Einstein Condensates


• 2: Patrizio Vignolo: Degenerate Fermi Gases


• 3: Valerio Scarani: Quantum Information: Primitive notions and quantum correlation


• 4: Dagmar Bruß and Chiara Macchiavello: Quantum Computing and Entanglement


• 5: F. Rohde and Jürgen Eschner: Quantum Computation with Trapped Ions and Atoms


• 6: Mark Goerbig: Quantum Hall Effects


• 7: George Batrouni and R.T. Scalettar: Quantum Phase Transition


• 8: Thierry Giamarchi: Interactions in Quantum Fluids


• 9: Cord Müller and Dominique Delande: Disorder and Interference: Localization phenomenoma


• 10: Christian Kurtsiefer and Antía Lamas-Linares: Quantum Information Processing: Quantum optics devices

Professor Christian Miniatura, Centre for Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore.
Professor Leong-Chuan Kwek, Centre for Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore.
Professor Martial Ducloy, Directeur de Recherche Classe Exceptionelle, CNRS, France.
Professor Benoît Grémaud, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS, Paris, France.
Professor Berthold-Georg Englert, Centre for Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore.
Professor Leticia Cugliandolo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France.
Professor Artur Ekert, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
Professor Kok Khoo Phua, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University.