Program
| Monday, 28 July 2008 | |
| 07:00 - 13:00: | Registration |
| 08:00 - 8:30: | Opening addresses |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:30 - 10:00: | 1 session: Quantum and mesoscopic thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Guenter Mahler and Thomas Jahnke Quantum thermodynamic processes |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Udo Seifert Stochastic thermodynamics: Theory and experiments |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Reinhard Lipowsky Multiscale motility of molecular motors |
| 10:00 - 10:20: | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00: | 2 session: Quantum and mesoscopic thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Gershon Kurizki Control of non-Markovian quantum thermodynamics |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Gert-Ludwig Ingold Quantum Brownian motion and the third law of thermodynamics |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Peter Talkner Quantum fluctuation theorems |
| 12:00 - 13:00: | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:40: | 3 session: Foundations of quantum mechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Andrei Khrennikov QM as approximative probabilistic model |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Luis de la Pena, Ana Maria Cetto, and Andrea Valdes-Hernandez Quantization as an emergent property of a matter-field system in permanent interaction |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Hans De Raedt, Shuang Zhao, and Kristel Michielsen Even-by-event simulation of quantum phenomena |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Yuval Gefen, Vadim Shpitalnik, and Alessandro Romito Weak values in solid state |
| 14:40 - 15:00: | Coffee break |
| 15:00 - 16:40: | 4 session: Quantum dissipation, decoherence and noise |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Ulrich Weiss, Peter Naegele, and Gabriele Campagnano Decoherence and relaxation of coupled qubits |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Frederico B. Brito and Amir O. Caldeira Dissipative dynamics of a two-level system resonantly coupled to a harmonic mode. |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Sigmund Kohler Dissipative Landau-Zener tunneling in circuit QED and nanomagnets |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Thomas Vojta and Jose Hoyos Effects of dissipation on quantum critical points with disorder |
| 16:40 - 18:00: | Free time and transfer to Wallenstein Palace |
| 18:00 - 19:30: | Guided tour through the Wallenstein Palace |
| Location: | Wallenstein Palace |
| 19:30 - 23:00: | Welcome party in the Wallenstein Palace Garden |
| Tuesday, 29 July 2008 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00: | 1 session: Mesoscopic and nano-electromechanical systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Hermann Grabert Decay of metastable states driven by non-Gaussian noise |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Yoseph Imry, Hamutal Bary-Soroker, and Ora Entin-Wohlman Effect of pair-breaking on mesoscopic persistent currents far above the superconducting Tc. |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Yuri Galperin, Boris Altshuler, and Joakim Bergli Decoherence in quantum devices due to low-frequency noise of environment: Role of non-Gaussian effects |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Irena Knezevic Decoherence due to contacts in ballistic nanostructures |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Branislav K. Nikolic Shot noise probing of spin decoherence in quantum transport through spintronic nanostructures |
| 10:00 - 10:20: | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00: | 2 session: Mesoscopic and nano-electromechanical systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Miles Blencowe, Meifang Chu, and Laura Gilbert Damping and decoherence dynamics of nanomechanical resonators |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Robert H. Blick, Hyun-Seok Kim I, Hyun-Seok Kim II, Chulki Kim, and Hua Qin Self-excitation in nano-electromechanical systems |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Andrew Armour Quantum dynamics of a resonator driven by a superconducting single electron transistor: a solid state analogue of the micromaser |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Christoph Bruder Position and momentum detection in nano-electromechanical systems |
| 12:00 - 13:00: | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:40: | 3 session - A parallel: Mesoscopic and nano-electromechanical systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Jan von Delft Phase-coherent transport through quantum dots |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Alexander Altland A many particle Landau Zener problem |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Andreas Wacker, Jonas N. Pedersen, and Benny Lassen Nonequilibrium transport in quantum dot systems |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Igor Lerner, Igor Yurkevich, and Vladimir Yudson Quantum wire hybridized with a side-attached impurity |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Vladimir Falko, Vadim Cheianov, Igor Aleiner, and Boris Altshuler Percolation through electron-hole puddles: Model for transport in strongly inhomogeneous graphene |
| 13:00 - 14:40: | 3 session - B parallel: Foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Mark Davidson The quark-gluon plasma and the stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Jaime Avendano and Luis de la Pena Signs of electron diffraction obtained by numerical simulation of a diffracted zero-point radiation field |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Kristel Michielsen, Shuang Zhao, Shengjun Yuan, and Hans De Raedt Event-based computer simulation of Wheeler's delayed choice experiment with photons |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Bahar Mehmani, Armen E. Allahverdyan, and Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen Work as tracer of the force that generates the geometric phase |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Gennaro Auletta Quantum-mechanical measurement process as a general framework for information acquiring |
| 14:40 - 15:00: | Coffee break |
| 15:00 - 16:40: | 4 session - A parallel: Quantum dissipation, decoherence and noise |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Wolfgang Belzig and Adam Bednorz Positive operator valued measure formulation of time-resolved electron counting statistics |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Yaroslav M. Blanter, Fabio Pistolesi, and Ivar Martin Current and noise in a single-electron transistor coupled to an oscillator |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Jochen Gemmer Projection operator approach to transport and relaxation in closed quantum systems |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Tobias Brandes Waiting times and noise in single particle transport |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Christian Flindt, Tomáš Novotný, Alessandro Braggio, Maura Sassetti, and Antti-Pekka Jauho Counting statistics of non-Markovian quantum stochastic processes |
| 15:00 - 16:40: | 4 session - B parallel: Quantum optics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Stephan André, Valentina Brosco, Alexander Shnirman, and Gerd Schön Phase diffusion in single qubit lasers |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Francesco Petruccione Density matrice and their parametrization |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Norbert Kroó Nonlinear and quantum plasmonics |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | George R. Welch, Hebin Li, Michael M. Kash, Gombojav Ariunbold, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, and Marlan O. Scully Toward XUV Raman superradiance: Breaking of adiabaticity |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Raymond Ooi How do pulsed lasers affect photon correlation and entanglement? |
| 16:40 - 17:00: | Free time |
| 17:00 - 20:00: | Poster session |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel - first floor |
| Wednesday, 30 July 2008 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00: | 1 session: Physics of quantum measurement |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Nicolas Gisin Towards understanding quantum correlations: New Bell tests and simulating partial entanglement with nonlocal boxes |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Agustin Palacios-Laloy, François Mallet, François Nguyen, Denis Vion, Patrice Bertet, Daniel Esteve, and Alexander Korotkov Continuous measurement of a driven quantum electrical circuit |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Andrew Jordan Weak values and the Leggett-Garg inequality in solid-state qubits |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Dominique Spehner and Fritz Haake Quantum measurement without Schrödinger cat states |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Armen E. Allahverdyan, Roger Balian, and Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen Simultaneous measurement of non commuting observables |
| 10:00 - 10:20: | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00: | 2 session: Physics of quantum computing and information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Wolfgang Hänsel, Thomas Monz, Philipp Schindler, Alessandro Villar, Hartmut Häffner, Markus Thomas Hennrich, Jan Benhelm, Gerhard Kirchmair, Florian Zähringer, René Gerritsma, Christian Felix Roos, and Rainer Blatt Advances in ion trap quantum computation |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Mark Fox Coherent quantum control of excitons and spins in quantum dots |
| 12:00 - 13:00: | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00: | 3 session: Physics of quantum computing and information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Wolfgang Tittel, Ahdiyeh Delfan, Cecilia La Mela, Mike Underwood, Peter Marzlin, and Sergey Moiseev Combining quantum memory with state manipulation |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Howard Brandt Differential geometry of quantum computation |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Barry Sanders, Graeme Ahokas, Dominic Berry, Richard Cleve, Peter Hoyer, and Nathan Wiebe Simulating Hamiltonian evolution on a quantum computer |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Elisabetta Paladino, Maura Sassetti, Andrea Mastellone, Antonio D'Arrigo, Giuseppe Falci, and Ulrich Weiss Coherent nanodevices as detectors of structured solid-state noise sources |
| 15:00 - 18:00: | Free time and transfer to St. Simon and Juda Church |
| 16:15 - 17:45: | Refreshment |
| Location: | Kozička Bar - Kozí street |
| 18:00 - 22:15: | Evening session: Public lectures and concert |
| Location: | St. Simon and Juda Church |
| 18:00 - 18:15: | Music introduction and opening address by Peter Keefe |
| 18:15 - 20:00: | Public lectures of Raymond Chiao and Marlan Scully |
| 18:15 - 18:45 | Marlan Scully The demon and the quantum: From thermodynamics to quantum mechanics and beyond |
| 18:45 - 19:45 | R. Chiao The Big Bang and the cosmic gravitational wave background: Using quantum mechanics to detect the first rumours in the Universe |
| 19:45 - 20:00: | Discussion after the lectures of Raymond Chiao and Marlan Scully |
| 20:00 - 20:30: | Break |
| 20:30 - 21:20: | Concert - First part |
| 21:20 - 21:30: | Break |
| 21:30 - 22:15: | Concert - Second part |
| Thursday, 31 July 2008 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00: | 1 session: Quantum optics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Julien Laurat, Kyung S. Choi, Hui Deng, and H. Jeff Kimble Quantum networking with atomic ensembles in the single excitation regime |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Linda Elizabeth Reichl, Benjamin Holder, Analahba Roy, Kyungsun Na, Daungruthai Jarukanont, and Hoshik Lee Quantum control of atomic and molecular systems |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | H. J. Carmichael and Changsuk Noh Open quantum systems, entanglement, and the laser quantum state |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Timothy Ralph, Gerard Milburn, and Tony Downes Entanglement in curved space time |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | M. Suhail Zubairy Optical sub-wavelength lithography: With and without entanglement |
| 10:00 - 10:20: | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00: | 2 session: Physics of biological systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | H. Frauenfelder, J. Berendzen, G. Chen, P. W. Fenimore, B. H. McMahon, A. Migliori, I. Stroe, J. Swenson, H. Jansson, and R. D. Young Protein dynamics |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Felix Ritort Mechanical manipulation of nucleic acids at 1kT energy resolution |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Allen Hermann New nanoscale materials and devices |
| 12:00 - 13:00: | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:40: | 3 session - A parallel: Quantum thermodynamics, dissipation and decoherence |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Frank Willem Hekking and Jukka Pekola Normal metal - superconductor tunnel junction as a Brownian refrigerator |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Juan Pablo Paz and Augusto Roncaglia Dynamics of the entanglement between two oscillators in the same environment |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Joachim Ankerhold, Frank Grossmann, Werner Koch, and Jürgen Stockburger Semiclassical dynamics of non-Markovian quantum Brownian motion |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Jiří J. Mareš, Pavel Hubík, Jaroslav Šesták, Václav Špička, Jozef Krištofik, and Jiří Stávek Temperature transformation and Mosengeil-Ott's antinomy |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Peter Keefe The second law of thermodynamics and quantum heat engines: Is the law strictly enforced? |
| 13:00 - 14:40: | 3 session - B parallel: Mesoscopic and non-electromechanical systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Jerzy Luczka Negative conductances in Josephson junctions |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Doron Cohen and Alexander Stotland The conductance of small mesoscopic disordered rings |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Andrei Zaikin and Dmitri Golubev Zero temperature decoherence of interacting electrons: The end of the story? |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Gloria Platero, Carlos Lopez-Monis, Jesus I\~narrea, and Rafael Sánchez Spin transport in double quantum dots: role of hyperfine interaction |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Marta Prada, Robert Blick, and Robert Joynt Quantum computation with silicon: ultra-long decoherence and relaxation times in quantum systems |
| 14:40 - 15:00: | Coffee break |
| 15:00 - 17:00: | 4 session: Non-equilibrium quantum statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | John Barker Quantum phase space distribution functions for non-equilibrium transport |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Pawel Danielewicz and Arnau Rios Towards quantum transport for nuclear reactions |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Karsten Balzer, Michael Bonitz, Alexei Filinov, and Patrick Ludwig Quantum kinetic theory for artificial atoms |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Václav Špička, Bedřich Velický, and Anděla Kalvová Dynamics of mesoscopic systems: Non-equilibrium Green |
| 17:00 - 18:30: | Free time |
| 18:30 - 24:00: | Evening session: Public lecture of Georgy Shlyapnikov and jazz concert |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall |
| 18:30 - 18:40: | Opening address by Theo Nieuwenhuizen |
| 18:40 - 20:00: | Public lecture of Georgy Shlyapnikov |
| 18:40 - 19:40 | Georgy Shlyapnikov Novel physics with ultracold fermions |
| 19:40 - 20:00: | Discussion after the lecture of Georgy Shlyapnikov |
| 20:00 - 20:30: | Break |
| 20:30 - 24:00: | Jazz concert |
| Friday, 1 August 2008 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00: | 1 session: Spins systems and their dynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Dietrich Belitz and Ted Kirkpatrick Electronic properties of helimagnets |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Avraham Schiller Quantum impurity systems out of equilibrium: Real-time dynamics |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and Yasuhiro Tokura Spin selection by mesoscopic systems with spin-orbit interactions |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Ora Entin-Wohlman Spin Hall effect |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Pascal Simon, Bernd Braunecker, and Daniel Loss Nuclear spin ordering in interacting 2D and 1D electron liquids |
| 10:00 - 10:20: | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00: | 2 session: Macroscopic quantum behaviour |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Stephanie M. Reimann From quantum dots to cold atoms in traps - interaction blockade and vortices |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Iacopo Carusotto, Michiel Wouters, and Cristiano Ciuti The non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition in microcavity polariton systems |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Giacomo Roati, Giovanni Modugno, and Massimo Inguscio An ideal Bose-Einstein condensate: from precision measurements to Anderson localization |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Matthias Vojta Valence-bond supersolids in cuprates |
| 12:00 - 13:00: | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00: | 3 session: Non-equilibrium quantum statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | James Freericks Nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Jens Eisert Looking relaxed: Apparent local equilibration in closed non-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Giuseppe Falci Dynamics of Weyl quasiparticles in the presence of quantum noise |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Eugene Sukhorukov and Ivan Levkivskyi Dephasing in the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers |
| 15:00 - 16:30: | Free time and transfer to Břevnov Monastery |
| 16:30 - 24:00: | Conference dinner and organ concert |
| Location: | Břevnov Monastery |
| 16:30 - 17:00: | Welcome in the atrium of the Břevnov Monastery |
| 17:00 - 18:00: | Guided tour through Břevnov Monastery |
| 18:00 - 21:00: | First part of the conference dinner |
| 21:00 - 21:50: | Organ concert |
| 21:50 - 24:00: | Second part of the conference dinner |
| Saturday, 2 August 2008 | |
| 08:30 - 10:00: | 1 session |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Fernando Sols, Miguel Rey, Michael Strass, Sigmund Kohler, and Peter Hänggi Nonadiabatic pumping of heat in electron systems |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Hans Briegel Entanglement in quantum many-body systems far away from equilibrium: Are there non-trivial quantum effects in biology? |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Hagen Kleinert Third quantization |
| 10:00 - 10:30: | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 12:20: | 2 session |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Guillaume Adenier EPR-Bell statistics with threshold detectors |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Arkady Plotnitsky Physical and mathematical causality in quantum theory |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Raymond Chiao Experiments at the interface of quantum mechanics and general relativity: Transduction between electromagnetic and gravitational waves via pairs of charged superconductors |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen Supermassive black holes as giant Bose-Einstein condensates |
| 12:20 - 12:40: | Closing address |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 13:00 - 14:00: | Lunch |