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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

29 July - 3 August 2013, Prague, Czech Republic

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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Nanomechanical and nanoptical systems
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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