Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| 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 |