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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

29 July - 3 August 2013, Prague, Czech Republic

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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