Scope and topics
Scope of the conference
Recent experimental and theoretical achievements of condensed
matter physics have revealed an increasing importance of understanding
the physics
of very small and low dimensional systems.
Issues related to quantum dephasing,
thermodynamics and the measurement process have a tremendous impact
in new emerging fields of condensed matter physics, e.g.,
quantum information processing and coherence phenomena in nanoscale
and low-dimensional systems. Together with these developments,
discussions related to the quantum and mesoscopic thermodynamics
have naturally emerged.
The aim of the conference is to bring together leading
scientists and junior researchers working on these closely
related areas of condensed matter physics
and statistical mechanics. Our intent is to discuss hot topics
and future directions in these fields, as well as to establish
collaborations and connections among seemingly independent communities.
List of topics
- Quantum, mesoscopic and (partly) classical thermodynamics
- Quantum limits to the second law
- Quantum measurement
- Quantum decoherence and dephasing
- Mesoscopic and nanomechanical systems
- Classical molecular motors, ratchet systems and rectified motion
- Quantum Brownian motion
- Quantum motors
- Quantum computing
- Relevant experiments from the nano- to the macro-scale