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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

25 - 30 July 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

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Friday, 29 July 2011

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Spin systems and their dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
08:00 - 08:30 Yoram Alhassid
The coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in nanoscale metallic grains
08:30 - 09:00 Dietrich Belitz and Ted Kirkpatrick
Phases, broken symmetries, and Goldstone modes in helical magnets
09:00 - 09:20 Ted Kirkpatrick
Generic non-Fermi-liquid behavior in metallic helimagnets
09:20 - 09:40 Thomas Vojta, Paul Goldbart, Priyanka Mohan, Rajesh Narayanan, and John Toner
Anomalously elastic, intermediate phase in randomly layered superfluids, superconductors, and planar magnets
09:40 - 10:00 Branislav K. Nikolic, Farzad Mahfouzi, John Q. Xiao, and Naoto Nagaosa
Spin pumping in magnetic tunnel junctions and topological insulators: Theory and experiment

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:00 2 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
10:20 - 10:50 Miguel Rubi
Mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics
10:50 - 11:20 Udo Seifert
Optimization in stochastic thermodynamics: Efficiency of nano-machines (at maximum power)
11:20 - 11:40 Eric Lutz and Sebastian Deffner
Nonequilibrium entropy production for open quantum systems
11:40 - 12:00 Jens Eisert
Relaxation, thermalization, and a quantum algorithm to prepare Gibbs states

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 3 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
13:00 - 13:30 Pawel Danielewicz, Arnau Rios, Brent Barker, and Mark Buchler
Advancing quantum transport for nuclear reactions
13:30 - 14:00 Stefano Sanvito
Electron transport in large systems including fluctuating environment and many body effects
14:00 - 14:30 Antti-Pekka Jauho, Tue Gunst, Jing Tao Lü, Mads Brandbyge, and Troels Rasmussen
Heat conduction in nanostructured graphene
14:30 - 15:00 Dietrich Kremp, Thomas Bornath, and Dirk Semkat
Bound states in non-equilibrium statistical physics

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 17:20 4 session: Quantum measurement, entanglement and coherence
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
15:20 - 15:50 Dirk Bouwmeester
Towards quantum superpositions of a mirror
15:50 - 16:20 Paul G. Kwiat, Aditya Sharma, and Kevin McCusker
Finding hidden entanglement
16:20 - 16:40 Julien Laurat
Quantum-to-classical transition of single-photon counters
16:40 - 17:00 Jean-Daniel Bancal, Denis Rosset, Nicolas Gisin, Yeong-Cherng Liang, and Stefano Pironio
Device independent witnesses for genuine multipartite entanglement
17:00 - 17:20 Bruno Sanguinetti, Enrico Pomarico, Pavel Sekatski, Hugo Zbinden, and Nicolas Gisin
Can one see entanglement?

17:20 - 18:30 Free time and transfer to Prague Castle

18:30 - 24:00 Conference dinner and concert
Location: Prague Castle - Vikárka Restaurant and St. Vitus Cathedral

18:30 - 20:30 First part of the conference dinner

20:30 - 21:50 Concert in St. Vitus Cathedral

21:50 - 24:00 Second part of the conference dinner