Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| Sunday, 28 July 2013 | |
| 17:00 - 21:00 | Registration and welcome refreshment |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel - lobby |
| Monday, 29 July 2013 | |
| 08:00 - 8:30 | Opening addresses |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | 1 session: Quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Ulrich Weiss |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Guenter Mahler Observational quantum-thermodynamics: Fluctuation of intensive thermodynamic variables |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Gershon Kurizki Work and cooling bounds in quantum thermodynamics |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Peter Hänggi On the use and abuse of thermodynamic entropy |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session: Physics of quantum information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Elisabetta Paladino |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Andrew Cleland Coupling microwaves and optical light |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Jens Eisert The ironic situation of boson sampling |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Matthew A. Broome, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Saleh Rahimi-Keshari, Justin Dove, Scott Aaronson, Timothy C. Ralph, and Andrew G. White Experimental boson sampling |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Lawrence S. Schulman and Marcos G. E. da Luz Signaling between entities with opposite thermodynamic arrows of time |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Gilles Montambaux |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | David Ferry Probing the quantum-classical connection with open quantum dots |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Wolfgang Belzig and Adam Bednorz Weak measurements and quantum paradoxes in quantum transport |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Shmuel Gurvitz Single-particle approach to mesoscopic transport |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Jianhui Wang, Yigal Meir, and Yuval Gefen Edge reconstruction in the fractional quantum Hall regime |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 session: Special Roger Balian session |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Serge Haroche |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Michel Brune, Clément Sayrin, Bruno Peaudecerf, Theo Rybarczyk, Stefan Gerlich, Igor Dotsenko, Sébastien Gleyzes, Jean-Michel Raimond, and Serge Haroche Quantum feedback preparation and stabilization of photon number states of light in a cavity |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Amir O. Caldeira, Marcio F. Cornelio, Osvaldo Jiménez Farías, Felipe F. Fanchini, Irenée Frerot, Gabriel H. Aguilar, Malena O. Hor-Meyll, Marcos C. de Oliveira, Stephen P. Walborn, and Paulo H. Souto Ribeiro Emergence of the pointer basis through the dynamics of correlations |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Roger Balian A statistical approach to the quantum measurement problem |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Free time and transfer to the Wallenstein palace |
| 17:45 - 22:30 | Guided tour and Welcome party |
| Location: | Wallenstein Palace and its Garden |
| 17:45 - 19:15 | Guided tour through the Wallenstein Palace |
| 19:30 - 22:30 | Welcome party in the Wallenstein Palace Garden |
| Tuesday, 30 July 2013 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Noise and quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Peter Hänggi |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Jan van Ruitenbeek, Manohar Kumar, Remi Avriller, and Alfredo Levy Yeyati Inelastic signals in shot noise |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Kensuke Kobayashi Experimental test of Fluctuation Theorem in quantum regime |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Oren Tal, Ran Vardimon, Tamar Yelin, and Marina Klionsky Relating atomic scale conductance to orbital structure by shot noise measurements |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Jerzy Łuczka, Jakub Spiechowicz, and Peter Hänggi Anomalous transport in Josephson junction induced by non-equilibrium noise |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session - A parallel: Physics of biological systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Saar Rahav |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Reinhard Lipowsky Multiscale motility of molecular motors: From single motor molecules to cooperative cargo transport |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Bob Austin Quantum transport in proteins: An experimental tale |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Susana Huelga Exciton transport in light harvesting complexes |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Stefan Klumpp Bacterial nanomagnets |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session - B parallel: Astrophysics and cosmology |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Raymond Chiao |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Pavel Kroupa The failure of the standard cosmological model and first steps towards a possible new direction |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Pavel Naselsky CMB cosmology after the Planck mission |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Hao Liu, Anna Mette Frejsel, and Pavel Naselsky CMB large-scale anisotropy and the m=0 modes |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Theo Nieuwenhuizen Neutrinos: The most standard-model friendly option for dark matter |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session: Cold atoms, physics of graphene |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Linda Reichl |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Eric Akkermans Quantum field theory on fractals -- from spontaneous emission with a fractal QED vacuum to quantum gravity at the Planck scale. Recent results and experiments. |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Gilles Montambaux Dirac cones, from graphene to cold atoms |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Efrat Shimshoni, Victoria Mazo, Chia-Wei Huang, Herbert Fertig, and Samuel Carr Superfluid-insulator transitions of collective helical modes in the zero quantum Hall state of bilayer graphene |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Ralf Schuetzhold and Friedemann Queisser Strong magneto-photoelectric effect in folded graphene |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | 4 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics, publishing |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | David Ferry |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Mauro Antezza Elementary quantum systems out of thermal equilibrium: From quantum thermalization to entanglement |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Irena Knezevic Coupling electrons, phonons, and photons for nonequilibrium transport simulation |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Avik Ghosh Quantum transport and correlated switching -- beating the Landauer limit |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Andrei Zaikin and Andrew Semenov Quantum decoherence of Cooper pairs |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Suzy Lidström Peer pressure |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Free time and transfer to Rudolfinum |
| 18:30 - 22:30 | Evening session: Public lecture of Serge Haroche and concert |
| Location: | Rudolfinum - Dvořák's Hall |
| chairperson: | Roger Balian, Václav Špička |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Music introduction and opening address |
| 18:45 - 20:00 | Public lecture |
| 18:45 - 19:45 | Serge Haroche Juggling with photons in a box to explore the quantum world |
| 19:45 - 20:00 | Disscusion after the lecture of Serge Haroche |
| 20:00 - 20:20 | Break |
| 20:20 - 21:20 | Concert of classical music - first part |
| 21:20 - 21:30 | Intermission |
| 21:30 - 22:30 | Concert of classical music - second part |
| Wednesday, 31 July 2013 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Nanomechanical and nanoptical systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Miles Blencowe |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Dirk Bouwmeester Quantum optomechanics |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Florian Marquardt Quantum many-body physics of phonons and photons |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Yaroslav M. Blanter Two-mode interaction and quantum effects in non-linear mechanical resonators |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Liliana Arrachea Heat transport and cooling in electronic and nanomechanical driven systems |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Mikko Möttönen, Olli-Pentti Saira, Jonne Koski, Youngsoo Yoon, Takahiro Sagawa, Tuomo Tanttu, Dmitri Averin, Aki Kutvonen, Paolo Solinas, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and Jukka Pekola Experimental study of work and entropy fluctuations in a single-electron box |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - A parallel: Physics of quantum information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Timothy Ralph |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | M. Suhail Zubairy Optical communication with invisible photons |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Radim Filip, Petr Marek, and Akira Furusawa Non-classical quantum states of light and nonlinear operations |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Howard Carmichael and Simon Whalen Quantum trajectories without Lindblad |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Francesco Petruccione and Ilya Sinayskiy Microscopic derivation of open quantum walks |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - B parallel: Quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Jürgen Stockburger |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Peter Schmitteckert Transport through correlated nanostructures: Towards steady state dynamics |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Sam Carr Full counting statistics in the not-so-long-time limit |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Ferdinand Evers and Peter Schmitteckert Invariants of the single impurity Anderson model and implications for conductance functionals |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Emanuel Gull, David R. Reichman, and Andrew J. Millis Diagrammatic Monte Carlo methods for non-equilibrium systems |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - C parallel: Foundations of quantum mechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | Theo Nieuwenhuizen |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Gerhard Groessing, Siegfried Fussy, Johannes Mesa Pascasio, and Herbert Schwabl Sub-quantum statistical mechanics and the vacuum fluctuation theorem |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Ana María Cetto, Luis de la Pena, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández The spin of the electron as an emergent property |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Andrei Khrennikov Devil is in detectors: Towards classical field model of quantum phenomena |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Luis de la Pena, Ana María Cetto, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández Generalized quantum Ehrenfest equations including radiative corrections |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - A parallel: Fluctuation and FD theorems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Yoseph Imry |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Yasuhiro Utsumi, Ora Entin-Wohlman, Amnon Aharony, Toshihiro Kubo, and Yasuhiro Tokura Fluctuation theorem for a two-terminal conductor connected to a voltage or a thermal probe |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Michele Campisi Quantum fluctuation relations. Overcoming the two-measurements issue |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Doron Cohen Fluctuation dissipation phenomenology away from equilibrium |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Saar Rahav and Christopher Jarzynski Detailed balance and nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - B parallel: Cold atoms |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Linda Reichl |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Jeff Steinhauer, Shahar Rinott, Alex Blumkin, Ran Schley, Ilanit Shammass, Oren Lahav, Amir Itah, Carmit Gordon, Alona Zayats, and Amit Berkovitz Sonic black holes and thermal phonons |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Frédéric Chevy Thermodynamics of ultracold Fermi gases |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Armen Sedrakian Phase diagram of imbalanced Fermi systems |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Jean-Philippe Brantut, Jakob Meineke, David Stadler, Sebastian Krinner, and Tilman Esslinger Conduction properties of ultracold fermions |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - C parallel: Physics of quantum information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | Timothy Ralph |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Julien Laurat Witnessing single-photon entanglement with continuous-variable measurements |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Giuseppe Falci, Elisabetta Paladino, Antonio D'Arrigo, and P. Di Stefano Design of Lambda systems in superconducting architectures |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Elisabetta Paladino, Antonio D'Arrigo, and Giuseppe Falci Entanglement protection in superconducting qubits by dynamical decoupling |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Markku Stenberg and Frank Wilhelm Quantum process tomography of energy and phase relaxation in adaptive bases |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | 4 session - A parallel: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Sam Carr |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Alessandro Romito and Yuval Gefen Weak measurement of cotunneling time |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Katarzyna Roszak, Radim Filip, and Tomáš Novotný Measurement induced enhancement of quantum dot coherence |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Yaroslav Pavlyukh On the initial stage of quasiparticle decay: A many-body perturbation theory perspective |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | 4 session - B parallel: Mesoscopic systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Ralf Schuetzhold |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Thomas Schmidt Interfacing Majorana bound states with harmonic oscillators |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Fabio Taddei, Marco Gibertini, Marco Polini, and Rosario Fazio Topological pumping in superconducting wires with Majorana fermions |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Alexander Shnirman A quantum dot close to Stoner instability: The role of Berry's phase |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | 4 session - C parallel: Quantum transport and statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | Branislav Nikolic |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Joachim Ankerhold, Vera Gramich, Björn Kubala, and Selina Rohrer The bright side of charge transfer through Josephson junctions |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Boris Fine, Tarek Elsayed, Chahan Kropf, and Astrid de Wijn Absence of exponential sensitivity to small perturbations in nonintegrable systems of spins 1/2 |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Dragos Victor Anghel Fractional exclusion statistics -- the method to describe interacting particle systems as ideal gases |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Poster session and refreshment |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel - first floor |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Free time |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Special lectures |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Eric Akkermans, Václav Špička |
| 18:30 - 19:15 | Axel Beyer, Ksenia Khabarova, Randolf Pohl, Thomas Udem, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Nikolai Kolachevsky Precision spectroscopy of the 2S-4P transition in atomic hydrogen |
| 19:15 - 20:00 | Roland E. Allen Life in the Higgs condensate, where electrons have mass |
| 20:00 - 20:20 | Discussion |
| 20:20 - 21:00 | Break |
| 21:00 - 23:00 | Jazz concert |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall |
| Thursday, 1 August 2013 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Hans De Raedt |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Gregor Weihs, Thomas Kauten, Benjamin Gschösser, Patrick Mai, and Zoltán Vörös Multipath interference tests of quantum mechanics |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Bernhard Wittmann and Anton Zeilinger Loophole-free experiments on different types of nonlocality |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Terence Stuart, Joshua A. Slater, Roger Colbeck, Renato Renner, and Wolfgang Tittel An experimental test of all theories with predictive power beyond quantum theory |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Morgan Weston, Michael Hall, Matthew Palsson, Howard Wiseman, and Geoff Pryde Experimental test of universal complementarity relations |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session: Cold atoms, decoherence |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Jeff Steinhauer |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Randall G. Hulet, Russell A. Hart, Pedro M. Duarte, and Tsung-lin Yang Hubbard model with ultracold atoms: Observation of antiferromagnetic correlations |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Linda Reichl and Erich Gust Transport theory for a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Fernando Sols Quantum transport of cold atoms: Hawking radiation and synthetic fields. |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Miles Blencowe Effective field theory approach to gravitationally induced decoherence |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - A parallel: Cold atoms |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Fernando Sols |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Ulrich Schneider Negative absolute temperatures for motional degrees of freedom |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Claudio Verdozzi Dynamical competition between disorder and interactions in ultracold atoms and transport phenomena |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Thomas Vojta Strong-randomness phenomena at superfluid phase transitions |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Franz Xaver Bronold, Johannes Marbach, and Holger Fehske Quantum-kinetics of charge-transferring atom-surface collisions |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - B parallel: Foundations of quantum mechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Kristel Michielsen |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Raymond Chiao Is communication via gravitational radiation possible? |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Nadav Katz Tomography and control of superconducting circuits |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Alex Retzker, Jianming Cai, Fedor Jelezko, and Martin Plenio Towards a large-scale quantum simulator on diamond surface at room temperature |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Vladimir M. Stojanovic Analog quantum simulators of small-polaron physics |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - C parallel: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall |
| chairperson: | Ferdinand Evers |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Daniel Neuhauser, Roi Baer, and Eran Rabani Stochastic large scale DFT and quantum chemistry: On the road to millions of electrons |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Jürgen Stockburger, Rebecca Schmidt, and Joachim Ankerhold Non-locality from local stimuli: Entanglement generation in a dissipative system. |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Denis Feinberg, Régis Mélin, Thibaut Jonckheere, Jérome Rech, Thierry Martin, Benoît Douçot, Andreas Pfeffer, François Lefloch, and Hervé Courtois Coherent DC transport in biased Josephson bijunctions |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Ivan Rungger, Awadhesh Narayan, and Stefano Sanvito Topological surface states scattering from first principles |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | 4 session - A parallel: Thermodynamics, Biological physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Lea Santos |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Gombojav O. Ariunbold, Philip Vetter, Dmitri V. Voronine, and Marlan Scully Quantum thermodynamics: Increasing quantum heat engine efficiency via quantum coherence |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Michael Kastner Prethermalisation and thermalisation in long-range quantum spin systems |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Joan Vaccaro and Stephen Barnett Single-reservoir heat engine: Controlling the spin |
| 15:00 - 16:40 | 4 session - B parallel: Quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Denis Feinberg |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Yigal Meir Emerging localized states and alternating Kondo effects in quantum point contacts |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Jan von Delft, Florian Bauer, Jan Heyder, Enrico Schubert, David Borowsky, Daniela Taubert, Benedikt Bruognolo, Dieter Schuh, Werner Wegscheider, and Stefan Ludwig Microscopic origin of the 0.7-anomaly in quantum point contacts |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Frank Hekking and Jukka Pekola Quantum jump approach for work and dissipation in a two-level system |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Artur Slobodeniuk, Ivan Levkivskyi, and Eugene Sukhorukov Equilibration of quantum Hall edge states by an Ohmic contact |
| 15:00 - 16:40 | 4 session - C parallel: Foundations of quantum mechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall |
| chairperson: | Michel Brune |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Jean-Daniel Bancal, Stefano Pironio, Antonio Acín, Yeong-Cherng Liang, Valerio Scarani, and Nicolas Gisin Quantum nonlocality based on finite-speed causal influences leads to superluminal signalling |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Bruno Sanguinetti, Thiago Guerreiro, Enrico Pomarico, Nicolas Sangouard, Jason~S. Pelc, Carsten Langrock, Martin~M. Fejer, Hugo Zbinden, Rob Thew, and Nicolas Gisin Realization of a parametric interaction between two photons from independent sources |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Yeong-Cherng Liang, Lluís Masanes, and Denis Rosset All entangled states display some hidden nonlocality |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Marco Gramegna, Alessio Avella, Alexander Shurupov, Maria V. Chekhova, Giorgio Brida, and Marco Genovese Two-photon spectral amplitude resolved in separable Schmidt modes |
| 16:40 - 18:30 | Free time and transfer to the St. Simon and Juda Church |
| 18:30 - 22:30 | Evening lecture: Public lecture of Pavel Kroupa and concert |
| Location: | St. Simon and Juda Church |
| chairperson: | Peter Keefe, Václav Špička |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Music introduction and opening address |
| 18:45 - 19:45 | Public lecture |
| 18:45 - 19:45 | Pavel Kroupa How astronomers define our world view |
| 19:45 - 20:00 | Discussion after the lecture of Pavel Kroupa |
| 20:00 - 20:20 | Break |
| 20:20 - 21:10 | Concert of classical music - first part |
| 21:10 - 21:30 | Intermission |
| 21:30 - 22:30 | Concert of classical music - second part |
| Friday, 2 August 2013 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Yigal Meir |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Udo Seifert Stochastic thermodynamics of autonomous information machines. From Maxwell's demons to cellular sensing |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | J. Miguel Rubi, Agustin Perez-Madrid, and Luciano Lapas Mesoscopic thermodynamics for near-field heat transfer |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Ulrich Weiss, Gert-Ludwig Ingold, and Benjamin Spreng Thermodynamic anomaly and reentrant classicality of a damped quantum system |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Yoseph Imry A simple quantum derivation of the Jarzynski and Crooks equalities |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - A parallel: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Peter Schmitteckert |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Fabrizio Nichele, Atindra Nath Pal, Patrick Pietsch, Christophe Charpentier, Werner Wegscheider, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin Transport experiments in InAs/GaSb broken-gap quantum wells |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Michael Galperin Molecular nanoplasmonics |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Hyoung Joon Choi Self-energy-corrected scattering-state method for electronic transport in single-molecule junctions |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Jong Han Interplay of strong correlation and dissipation in nonequilibrium lattice systems |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - B parallel: Physics of mesoscopic systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Doron Cohen |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Hugues Pothier, Landry Bretheau, Çağlar Girit, Daniel Esteve, and Cristian Urbina Revealing the Andreev degree of freedom in the Josephson effect |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Andreas Prinz-Zwick, Peter Talkner, and Juyeon Yi Zeno effect for repeated projective and finite-time measurements |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Branislav Nikolic, Farzad Mahfouzi, and Naoto Nagaosa Gauge-invariant nonequilibrium density matrix with applications to spin torques driven by spin-orbit coupling |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Antonio Macedo, Victor Cavalcanti, Marcone Sena, and Francisco Almeida Localization effects in quantum dot networks: A unified approach |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - C parallel: Thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall |
| chairperson: | Saar Rahav |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Vittorio Giovannetti, Davide Venturelli, and Rosario Fazio Minimal self-contained quadridot quantum refrigeration machine |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Lea Santos Relationship between initial state and Hamiltonian as a main factor for thermalization |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Karen Hovhannisyan, Martí Perarnau Llobet, Marcus Huber, and Antonio Acín The role of entanglement in work extraction |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Jiří J. Mareš, Pavel Hubík, and Václav Špička On mathematical structure of physical quantities |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Peter Schmitteckert |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | James Freericks, Wen Shen, and Tom Devereaux Beyond Planck-Einstein quanta: Crossover from frequency driven to amplitude driven excitation in a nonequilibrium many-body system |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Frithjof Anders Influence of vibrational modes on the quantum transport through a nano-device |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gianluca Stefanucci Nonequilibrium Green's function approach to ultrafast electron |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Woochul Lee, Kyeongtae Kim, Wonho Jeong, Linda Angela Zotti, Fabian Pauly, Juan Carlos Cuevas, and Pramod Reddy Heat dissipation in atomic-scale junctions |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 - 16:20 | 4 session: General physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Raymond Chiao |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Hagen Kleinert Quantum field theory of black-swan events |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Norbert Kroo, Peter Racz, and Sandor Varro Nonlinear plasmonics |
| 16:20 - 17:30 | Free time and transfer to the Prague Castle |
| 17:30 - 23:30 | Conference dinner and concert |
| Location: | Prague Castle - Archbishop's Palace and St. Vitus Cathedral |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Guided tour through Archbishop’s Palace |
| 18:30 - 20:15 | First part of the conference dinner |
| 20:15 - 20:30 | Transfer to the St. Vitus Cathedral |
| 20:30 - 21:50 | Concert in the St. Vitus Cathedral |
| 22:00 - 23:30 | Second part of the conference dinner |
| Saturday, 3 August 2013 | |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | 1 session: Quantum information, Foundations of quantum mechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Giuseppe Falci |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Timothy Ralph and Nathan Walk Gaussian post-selection and quantum communication |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Kristel Michielsen, Fengping Jin, and Hans De Raedt Event-by-event simulation of neutron interferometry experiments |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Philipp Haslinger, Nadine Dörre, Jonas Rodewald, Stefan Nimmrichter, Klaus Hornberger, and Markus Arndt A universal matter-wave interferometer with optical gratings in the time domain |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Hans De Raedt, Mikhail Katsnelson, and Kristel Michielsen Quantum theory as the most robust description of reproducible experiments |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 - 11:50 | 2 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Branislav Nikolic |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Rudolf Hilfer Time flow in non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Václav Špička, Anděla Kalvová, and Bedřich Velický Has a fluctuation dissipation theorem some sense out of equilibrium? |
| 11:50 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | 3 session: General physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Rudolf Hilfer |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Anil Patnaik, Sukesh Roy, and James Gord Ultrafast saturation of Raman coherence |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Peter Keefe Bardeen hysteresis: Fact or fiction? |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | 4 session: Quantum transport, closing |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
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| 15:20 - 16:00 | Closing and refreshment |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |