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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

29 July - 3 August 2013, Prague, Czech Republic

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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