Context and thematics

Quantum information is recognised today at the national and international levels. The french president, Mr Macron, announced for instance to devote 1.8 billion euro in the coming ten years to the so-called Plan Quantique aimed at supporting emerging quantum technologies. 

It is common nowadays to refer to this field of research under the label ``second quantum revolution’’, in relation with the first quantum revolution (1900-1930) during which the founding fathers (Planck, Bohr, de Broglie, Born, Pauli, Schodinger, von Neumann and so on)  of the quantum theory elaborated its basic concepts.

In the meanwhile the role of new concepts such as entanglement and non-locality has been clarified (Bell inequalites, 1964, Aspect experiment, 1981), and the progresses of the quantum technologies enabled to prepare and to control the evolution of individual quantum systems (photons, electrons, neutrons, atoms) as well as to generate entanglement between various quantum systems. 

The school aims at rendering account of the fundamentals (1st Q. revolution) as well as applied (2nd Q. revolution) aspects of quantum information.

The targetted audience is large : juniors (including PhD students and post-docs) as well as seniors, theoreticians active in fundamental research interested in a better understanding of the experimental challenges of the second quantum revolution, but also experimentalists aimed at broadening their theoretical vision and finally nano-opticians and other semi-classical physicists and engineers curious to discover the present quantum microcosm.

The courses will be given at 50 percent by experimentalists and at 50 percent by theoreticians; it will be supported by tutorials as well as practical exercises aimed at illustrating the content of the courses.

The school will be held in Peyresq, a small village located in the French Alps.