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