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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

25 - 30 July 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Nonequilibrium quantum statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
08:00 - 08:30 Ulrich Weiss
Nonlinear quantum transport and noise statistics
08:30 - 09:00 Yuli Nazarov
Flows of quantum information quantities
09:00 - 09:30 Yoseph Imry
Slow relaxation and aging in the electron glass
09:30 - 10:00 Tamar Seideman
Driven electrons in strong laser fields

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:00 2 session - A parallel: Foundations of quantum mechanics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
10:20 - 10:40 Kristel Michielsen, Thomas Lippert, Marcus Richter, Bernard Barbara, Seiji Miyashita, and Hans De Raedt
Testing the applicability of quantum theory to event-based processes
10:40 - 11:00 Hans De Raedt, Kristel Michielsen, and Fengping Jin
Towards a corpuscular event-by-event simulation of optical phenomena
11:00 - 11:20 Luis de la Peña, Ana María Cetto, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández
Quantum nonlocality revisited from the point of view of a local stochastic theory
11:20 - 11:40 Čestmír Šimáně
Mesic forces in quantum mechanics
11:40 - 12:00 Miloš Lokajíček
Controversy between Einstein and Bohr after 75 years, its actual solution and the consequences for the present

10:20 - 12:00 2 session - B parallel: Mesoscopic systems
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
10:20 - 10:40 Olov Karlström, Jonas N. Pedersen, Peter Samuelsson, and Andreas Wacker
Coherent tunneling and canyon of current suppression in quantum dots
10:40 - 11:00 Florian Bauer, Jan Heyder, David Borowski, Enrico Schubert, Daniela Taubert, Dieter Schuh, Werner Wegscheider, Stefan Ludwig, and Jan von Delft
The 0.7-anomaly in quantum point contacts: Evidence for a Nozières' Fermi liquid
11:00 - 11:20 Daniel Sheehan
Diodic electric fields in NEMS/MEMS devices: Toward a solid-state second law challenge
11:20 - 11:40 Peter Keefe
Relaxation phenomena in the adiabatic phase transition of Type I superconductor particles
11:40 - 12:00 Howard Brandt
Microcausality in quantum field theory

10:20 - 12:00 2 session - C parallel: Dissipation, noise and decoherence
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
10:20 - 10:40 Andrew Armour
Noise properties of cavity-driven mechanical oscillations
10:40 - 11:00 Tomáš Novotný, Federica Haupt, and Wolfgang Belzig
Inelastic effects on the electronic current noise through nanojunctions
11:00 - 11:20 Lea Santos
Quantum chaos and thermalization in isolated many-body systems
11:20 - 11:40 Andrei Zaikin and Andrew Semenov
Persistent current noise and electron-electron interactions
11:40 - 12:00 Francesco Petruccione
Open quantum random walks

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 3 session - A parallel: Nonequilibrium quantum statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
13:00 - 13:20 James Freericks, Wen Shen, Brian Moritz, Thomas Devereaux, and Hulikal Krishnamurthy
Theory of time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
13:20 - 13:40 Peter Schmitteckert
Transport in and through correlated nanostructures: A density matrix renormalization group perspective
13:40 - 14:00 Rafael Sánchez and Markus Büttiker
Transport from hot spots
14:00 - 14:20 Bozidar Novakovic and Irena Knezevic
Transient-regime transport in nanostructures
14:20 - 14:40 Ines Safi and Philippe Joyez
Time-dependent theory of non-linear response and current fluctuations

13:00 - 15:00 3 session - B parallel: Mesoscopic systems
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
13:00 - 13:20 Joachim Ankerhold, Jürgen Stockburger, Rebecca Schmidt, Antonio Negretti, and Tommaso Calarco
Optimal control of open quantum systems in non-Markovian environments
13:20 - 13:40 Fabrice Debbasch and Giuseppe di Molfetta
Continuous limit of discrete time quantum walks
13:40 - 14:00 Dragos Victor Anghel
A new paradigm to describe mesoscopic systems by employing fractional exclusion statistics
14:00 - 14:20 Sigmund Kohler
Graphene ratchets
14:20 - 14:40 Jerzy Łuczka and Michał Januszewski
Indirect control of anomalous transport in a system of two coupled Brownian particles
14:40 - 15:00 Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, Pavel Hubík, Jaroslav Šesták, Jiří Stávek, and Jozef Krištofik
Quantum thermostatics and generalization of Wien's law

13:00 - 15:00 3 session - C parallel: Spins systems, cold atoms, quantum optics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
13:00 - 13:20 Gilles Montambaux
Engineering of Dirac cones in two-dimensional crystals
13:20 - 13:40 Thomas Schmidt, Adilet Imambekov, and Leonid Glazman
Spin-charge separation in one-dimensional fermion systems beyond Luttinger liquid theory
13:40 - 14:00 Jorge Dukelsky, Stefan Rombouts, Gerardo Ortiz, and Sergio Lerma
Phase diagram of the integrable px+ipy fermionic superfluid
14:00 - 14:20 Alexander Altland
Anderson transition in the cold atom kicked rotor
14:20 - 14:40 Norbert Kroo
Some novelties in nonlinear plasmonics
14:40 - 15:00 Yuri Rostovtsev
Mechanism of anomalous heating of trapped ions

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 17:00 4 session - A parallel: Physics of quantum computing
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
15:20 - 15:40 Jens Koch
Superconducting qubits grow up: Quantum coherence in circuits with many degrees of freedom
15:40 - 16:00 Alex Retzker, Martin Plenio, Christof Wunderlich, Anders Varon, Michael Johanning, Ingo Baumgart, and Naula Timoney
Quantum computing with magnetic insensitive states
16:00 - 16:20 Robert O'Connell
Entanglement and coherence: Differences and similarities
16:20 - 16:40 Igor Pikovski, Michael Vanner, Markus Aspelmeyer, Caslav Brukner, and Myungshik Kim
Probing the canonical commutator of massive mechanical oscillators
16:40 - 17:00 Christoph Bruder
Quantum control of interacting qubits

15:20 - 17:00 4 session - B parallel: Spin systems, dissipation and noise
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
15:20 - 15:40 Ora Entin-Wohlman
Spin-polarized electric currents in quantum transport
15:40 - 16:00 Vadim Cheianov, Volodya Fal'ko, and Yury Sherkunov
Statistical mechanics of magnetic impurities on graphene
16:00 - 16:20 Doron Cohen and Daniel Hurowitz
Quantum vs stochastic non-equilibrium steady state of driven systems
16:20 - 16:40 Boris Fine and Kai Ji
Emergence of non-thermal statistics in isolated many-particle quantum systems after multiple perturbations
16:40 - 17:00 Ivan Levkivskyi and Eugene Sukhorukov
Energy relaxation at the quantum Hall edge

15:20 - 17:00 4 session - C parallel: Cosmology, gravitation and astrophysics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
15:20 - 15:40 Rudy Schild
Observations of Black Holes show the possibility of a widely separated accretion disk
15:40 - 16:00 Fumio Abe
MOA II gravitational microlensing survey
16:00 - 16:20 Hao Liu and Ti-Pei Li
Systematical effects in WMAP data and looking forward to the Planck data release
16:20 - 16:40 Carl H. Gibson
Hydro-gravitational-dynamics of the cosmological big bang and the biological big bang
16:40 - 17:00 Hagen Kleinert
The purely geometric part of ``dark matter'' -- A fresh playground for ``string theory''

17:00 - 20:00 Poster session
Location: Pyramida Hotel - first floor

17:00 - 20:00 Refreshment

20:00 - 23:00 Jazz concert
Location: Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall