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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

27 July - 1 August 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

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

 
Sunday, 26 July 2015

17:00 - 21:00 Registration and welcome refreshment
Location: Pyramida Hotel - lobby

 
Monday, 27 July 2015

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: Saar Rahav
08:30 - 09:00 Christopher Jarzynski
Thermodynamics in the presence of large system-environment coupling
09:00 - 09:30 David Jennings
Thermodynamics in extreme quantum regimes
09:30 - 10:00 Gershon Kurizki
Quantum resources may boost the performance of heat machines

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session: Quantum measurement
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Hans De Raedt
10:20 - 10:50 Andrew Jordan
The quantum road most taken
10:50 - 11:20 Paul Kwiat, Courtney Byard, Trent Graham, and Andrew Jordan
Making weak measurements stronger
11:20 - 11:50 Wolfgang Belzig
Non-Markovian weak measurements in quantum transport
11:50 - 12:10 Lawrence S. Schulman
Quantum mechanics, special states and experiment

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 3 session: Quantum experiments
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: David Vitali
13:00 - 13:30 Markus Arndt
Quantum optics experiments with biomolecular matter
13:30 - 14:00 Jakob Reichel
Many-body entanglement of ultracold atoms in optical fiber microcavities
14:00 - 14:30 Ekaterina Moreva, Giorgio Brida, Marco Gramegna, Lorenzo Maccone, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Marco Genovese
Time emerging from quantum entanglement: Illustration of a first experimental approach

14:30 - 14:50 Coffee break

14:50 - 16:50 4 session: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Ana María Cetto
14:50 - 15:20 Gerard ’t Hooft
The cellular automaton interpretation of quantum mechanics
15:20 - 15:50 Gerard J. Milburn
Time and temperature in quantum physics
15:50 - 16:20 Armen Allahverdyan, Roger Balian, and Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Minimalist principles needed to interpret ideal quantum measurements
16:20 - 16:50 Shmuel Gurvitz
Does the measurement take place when nobody observes it?

16:50 - 17:50 Free time and transfer to Wallenstein Palace

17:50 - 22:30 Guided tour and Welcome party
Location: Wallenstein Palace and its Garden

17:50 - 19:20 Guided tour through the Wallenstein Palace

19:30 - 22:30 Welcome party in the Wallenstein Palace Garden

 
Tuesday, 28 July 2015

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Cold atoms
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Linda Reichl
08:00 - 08:30 Georgy Shlyapnikov
Many-body physics with ultracold quantum gases in disorder
08:30 - 09:00 Frédéric Chevy, Marion Delehaye, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Sebastien Laurent, and Christophe Salomon
Counterflowing superlfuid mixtures
09:00 - 09:30 Raul Teixeira, Carla Hermann-Avigliano, Thanh Long Nguyen, Tigrane Cantat-Moltrecht, Sébastien Gleyzes, Jean-Michel Raimond, Serge Haroche, and Michel Brune
Dipole interactions in a cold Rydberg gas for quantum simulation
09:30 - 10:00 Rainer Blatt
Quantum information science with trapped Ca+ ions

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session: Entanglement
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Jakob Reichel
10:20 - 10:50 Nicolas Gisin
“Macroscopic” entanglement
10:50 - 11:20 Jonathan Lavoie, Alexey Tiranov, Peter C Strassmann, Nicolas Sangouard, Mikael Afzelius, Félix Bussières, and Nicolas Gisin
Light-matter micro-macro entanglement
11:20 - 11:50 Brad G Christensen, Yeong-Cherng Liang, Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, and Paul Kwiat
Exploring the limits of quantum nonlocality with entangled photons
11:50 - 12:10 Simon E. Nigg, Rakesh P. Tiwari, Stefan Walter, and Thomas L. Schmidt
Detecting nonlocal Cooper pair entanglement by optical Bell inequality violation

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - A parallel: Topological states of matter
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Thomas Vojta
13:00 - 13:30 Ady Stern
The making and breaking of non-abelian anyons
13:30 - 14:00 Jianhui Wang, Yuval Gefen, and Yigal Meir
Edge reconstruction and spontaneous time reversal symmetry breaking in topological insulators
14:00 - 14:20 Sam T Carr and Nikolaos Kainaris
Emergent topological properties in interacting 1D systems with spin-orbit coupling
14:20 - 14:40 Nathan Goldman
Creating topological matter in cold atomic gases: The Chern-number measurement

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - B parallel: Quantum information
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Michael Kastner
13:00 - 13:30 Giuseppe Falci, Pietro Di Stefano, Alessandro Ridolfo, Antonio D'Arrigo, and Elisabetta Paladino
Adiabatic manipulation of architectures of multilevel artificial atoms
13:30 - 14:00 Elisabetta Paladino, Antonio D'Arrigo, and Giuseppe Falci
Quantum control of two-qubit gates via dynamical decoupling filtering of 1/f noise
14:00 - 14:20 Gilad Arrad, Yuval Vinkler, Dorit Aharonov, and Alex Retzker
Increasing sensing resolution with error correction
14:20 - 14:40 Wilfred G. van der Wiel
Evolution of a disordered nanoparticle network into Boolean logic

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - C parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
chairperson: Yaroslav Blanter
13:00 - 13:30 David K Ferry
Conductance fluctuations in semiconductors
13:30 - 14:00 James Freericks, Tom Devereaux, Lex Kemper, Brian Moritz, and Michael Sentef
Theoretical description of pump/probe experiments in electron-phonon coupled superconductors
14:00 - 14:20 Irena Knezevic
Quantum cascade lasers: A nonequilibrium physics playground
14:20 - 14:40 Frithjof Anders
Spin noise in the anisotropic central spin model

14:40 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 16:40 4 session - A parallel: Many body physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Dietrich Belitz
15:00 - 15:30 Jens Eisert
10 people in the room, 10 opinions on many-body localisation
15:30 - 16:00 Maxim G Vavilov and Canran Xu
Response to a local quench of a system near many body localization
16:00 - 16:20 Meydi Ferrier, Tomonori Arakawa, Tokuro Hata, Ryo Fujiwara, Raphaelle Delagrange, Raphael Weil, Richard Deblock, Rui Sakano, Akira Oguri, and Kensuke Kobayashi
Universality of non-equilibrium fluctuations in strongly correlated quantum liquids
16:20 - 16:40 Bryan Dalton, John Jeffers, and Stephen Barnett
Grassmann phase space theory for fermions

15:00 - 16:40 4 session - B parallel: Astrophysics and cosmology
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Mordehai Milgrom
15:00 - 15:30 Pavel Kroupa
The emergence of super massive black holes and their correlation with galaxy properties
15:30 - 16:00 Philipp Haslinger, Paul Hamilton, Matt Jaffe, Quinn Simmons, Justin Khoury, and Holger Müller
Atom-interferometry limits on dark energy
16:00 - 16:20 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Neutrino dark matter and turbulence in the plasma: A perfect couple
16:20 - 16:40 Raymond Chiao and Nader Inan
The interaction of gravitational waves with superconductors

15:00 - 16:40 4 session - C parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
chairperson: Michael Thorwart
15:00 - 15:30 Uri Peskin
Coherent and incoherent control of single molecule junctions: Steady states and beyond
15:30 - 16:00 Fabio Taddei, Francesco Mazza, Stefano Valentini, Riccardo Bosisio, Giuliano Benenti, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Rosario Fazio
Improving thermoelectric conversion with multi-terminal superconducting systems
16:00 - 16:20 Mauro Antezza
Non-equilibrium quantum manipulation: From robust entanglement to quantum thermal machines
16:20 - 16:40 Andrea Hofmann, Ville F. Maisi, Clemens Rössler, Julien Basset, Thomas Ihn, Klaus Ensslin, Christian Reichl, and Werner Wegscheider
Out-of equilibrium thermodynamics with single electron counting experiments

16:40 - 18:30 Free time and transfer to Simon and Juda

18:30 - 21:30 Evening session: Public lecture of Marlan Scully and concert
Location: St. Simon and Juda Church
chairperson: Peter Keefe, Václav Špička

18:30 - 18:45 Music introduction and opening address

18:45 - 20:00 Public lecture
18:45 - 19:45 Marlan O. Scully
The photon sheds light on the quantum

19:45 - 20:00 Discussion after the lecture of Marlan Scully

20:00 - 20:20 Break

20:20 - 21:30 Concert of classical music

 
Wednesday, 29 July 2015

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Christopher Jarzynski
08:00 - 08:30 Udo Seifert
Universal thermodynamic inequalities for biomolecular processes
08:30 - 09:00 Ivan M. Khaymovich, Jonne V. Koski, Olli-Pentti Saira, Vladimir E. Kravtsov, and Jukka P. Pekola
Stochastic thermodynamics in single electron circuits
09:00 - 09:30 Peter Hänggi
Quantum fluctuation theorems: The state of the art
09:30 - 10:00 Yuli Nazarov and Mohammad H. Ansari
Rényi entropy flows from quantum heat engines

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - A parallel: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Roger Balian
10:20 - 10:50 Frederico Borges Brito, Francisco Marques Rouxinol, Matthew D. LaHaye, and Amir Ordacgi Caldeira
Testing time reversal symmetry in artificial atoms
10:50 - 11:20 Luiz Davidovich
Quantum metrology: Towards the ultimate precision limits in parameter estimation
11:20 - 11:50 Alexander Unzicker
On the origin of the constants c and h
11:50 - 12:10 Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík
Infiniteness – a fundamental misconception in physics

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - B parallel: Biological systems, quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Joan Vaccaro
10:20 - 10:50 Reinhard Lipowsky and Sophia Rudorf
From in-vitro to in-vivo kinetics of biomolecular machinesvia kinetic distance minimization
10:50 - 11:20 Ofer Biham
Competition, feedback and fluctuations in transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks in cells
11:20 - 11:50 Andrei Khrennikov and Irina Basieva
Quantum-like modeling of cognition: On violation of Aumann theorem
11:50 - 12:10 Michael J W Hall, Dirk-Andre Deckert, and Howard M Wiseman
Can quantum phenomena be modelled via interactions between many classical worlds?

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - C parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
chairperson: Uri Peskin
10:20 - 10:50 Michael Thorwart
Iterative path integral approach to nonequilibrium quantum transport
10:50 - 11:20 Michael Thoss
Quantum transport in molecular junctions: Vibrational effects and time-dependent phenomena
11:20 - 11:50 Michele Campisi, Jukka Pekola, and Rosario Fazio
Nonequilibrium fluctuations in quantum heat engines: Theory, example, and possible solid state experiments
11:50 - 12:10 Rafael Sánchez, Björn Sothmann, and Andrew N. Jordan
Three terminal quantum Hall thermoelectrics

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - A parallel: Optomechanics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Yaroslav Blanter
13:00 - 13:30 Andrew Armour
Quantum non-linear dynamics of photons and Cooper-pairs in a Josephson junction-cavity system
13:30 - 14:00 Pascal Simon
Quantum electrodynamics of quantum conductors in micro-waves cavity
14:00 - 14:20 Oriol Romero-Isart
Near-field levitated quantum optomechanics with nanodiamonds
14:20 - 14:40 Cyril Elouard, Maxime Richard, and Alexia Auffèves
Reversible work extraction in a hybrid opto-mechanical system

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - B parallel: Cold atoms
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Frédéric Chevy
13:00 - 13:30 Linda E. Reichl and Erich D. Gust
Sound mode decay in Bose-Einstein condensates
13:30 - 14:00 Fernando Sols
Hawking radiation from sonic black holes in flowing atom condensates
14:00 - 14:20 Nir Navon, Alexander L Gaunt, Robert P Smith, and Zoran Hadzibabic
Exploring the dynamics of BEC in a box potential
14:20 - 14:40 Jean-Philippe Brantut, Sebastian Krinner, Dominik Husmann, Martin Lebrat, Shuta Nakajima, Charles Grenier, Samuel Häusler, and Tilman Esslinger
Quantum point contacts for cold atoms

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - C parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
chairperson: James Freericks
13:00 - 13:30 Howard J. Carmichael, Simon J. Whalen, and Arne L. Grimsmo
Time-local master equations: The coherently driven qubit with delayed coherent feedback
13:30 - 14:00 Francesco Petruccione and Ilya Sinayskiy
Microscopic derivation of open quantum Brownian motion
14:00 - 14:20 Michael Marthaler
Switching between stable states in quantum systems far from equilibrium
14:20 - 14:40 Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs and Peter Samuelsson
Shaping of on-demand electron wave-packets by tunnel-barrier design

14:40 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 17:00 4 session - A parallel: Optomechanics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Andrew Armour
15:00 - 15:30 Yaroslav M. Blanter
Non-linear microwave optomechanics
15:30 - 16:00 Vittorio Peano Cavasola, Christian Brendel, Michael Schmidt, and Florian Marquardt
Topological phases of sound and light in an optomechanical array
16:00 - 16:20 David Vitali
Probing deformed commutators with macroscopic harmonic oscillators
16:20 - 16:40 Nikolai Kiesel, Florian Blaser, Uros Delic, David Grass, Markus Aspelmeyer, Andreas Dechant, and Eric Lutz
Thermodynamic cycles using levitated optomechanics
16:40 - 17:00 Jason Twamley
Engineering mesoscopic quantum systems using quantum magneto-mechanics

15:00 - 17:00 4 session - B parallel: Spins, quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Fernando Sols
15:00 - 15:30 Oren Tal
Controlling spin transport and magnetoresistance at the atomic scale
15:30 - 16:00 Etienne Maréchal, Bruno Naylor, Aurélie De Paz, Olivier Gorceix, Paolo Pedri, Laurent Vernac, and Bruno Laburthe-Tolra
Dipolar chromium atoms: Spin dynamics in optical lattices and thermodynamics
16:00 - 16:30 Boris Fine
Nonsecular resonances of interacting nuclear spins in solids
16:30 - 17:00 Andrei D. Zaikin and Andrew G. Semenov
Noise and full counting statistics of quantum phase slips

15:00 - 17:00 4 session - C parallel: Thermalisation
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
chairperson: Joachim Ankerhold
15:00 - 15:30 Vladimir G Zelevinsky
Quantum chaos and thermalization in a mesoscopic many-body system
15:30 - 16:00 Gregoire Ithier and Florent Benaych-Georges
Thermalisation of a quantum system from first principles
16:00 - 16:20 Lea F Santos and Jonathan Torres-Herrera
Relaxation process of interacting quantum systems
16:20 - 16:40 Doron Cohen
Minimal models for superfluidity and thermalization
16:40 - 17:00 Hyunggyu Park, Jaegon Um, Haye Hinrichsen, and Chulan Kwon
Energetics and efficiency of an information engine

17:00 - 18:30 Free time and transfer to Rudolfinum

18:30 - 21:30 Evening session: Public lecture of Gerard ’t Hooft and concert
Location: Rudolfinum - Dvořák's Hall
chairperson: Peter Keefe, Václav Špička

18:30 - 18:45 Music introduction and opening address

18:45 - 20:00 Public lecture
18:45 - 19:45 Gerard ’t Hooft
The quantum deep down

19:45 - 20:00 Discussion after the lecture of Gerard ’t Hooft

20:00 - 20:20 Break

20:20 - 21:30 Concert of classical music

 
Thursday, 30 July 2015

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Electrons, photons, optomechanics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Michel Brune
08:00 - 08:30 O. Parlavecchio, M. Westig, M. Trif, P. Simon, J. Ankerhold, B. Kubala, J. Leppakangas, G. Johannson, C. Altimiras, P. Joyez, D. Vion, P. Roche, Daniel Esteve, M. Hofheinz, and F. Portier
Quantum optics with microwave photons in superconducting circuits
08:30 - 09:00 Joachim Ankerhold, Bjoern Kubala, Vera Gramich, and Selina Rohrer
Charge transfer meets circuit quantum electrodynamics: From Coulomb blockade to nonlinear quantum dynamics
09:00 - 09:30 Christoph Bruder, Andreas Nunnenkamp, and Stefan Walter
Quantum synchronization
09:30 - 10:00 Christian Schönenberger
Cooper-pair splitting and spectroscopy in quantum dot devices with superconducting charge injectors

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session: Many body physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Ted Kirkpatrick
10:20 - 10:50 Giorgio Parisi
Low temperature behaviour of supercooled liquids in the quantum regime
10:50 - 11:20 Claire Wahl, Jerome Rech, Thibaut Jonckheere, and Thierry Martin
Interactions and charge fractionalization in an electronic Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer
11:20 - 11:50 Michael Pollak
Many body effects in strongly disordered electronic systems
11:50 - 12:10 Igor Yurkevich, Alexey Galda, Oleg Yevtushenko, and Igor Lerner
The role of duality in a 1D transport of interacting particles through a constriction

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - A parallel: Phase transitions
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Igor Lerner
13:00 - 13:30 Thomas Vojta, Hatem Barghathi, Martin Puschmann, Philipp Cain, and Michael Schreiber
How random is topological disorder? Phase transitions and localization on random lattices
13:30 - 14:00 Ted Kirkpatrick and Dietrich Belitz
Scaling at quantum phase transitions: General concepts with applications to clean metallic ferromagnets
14:00 - 14:20 Dietrich Belitz and Ted R Kirkpatrick
Scaling at quantum phase transitions: Disordered quantum ferromagnets
14:20 - 14:40 Pavel Holba
Ehrenfest classification of phase transitions and phase diagrams

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - B parallel: Spin systems, superconductivity
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Andrei Zaikin
13:00 - 13:30 Nadav Katz
Quantifying and controlling superconducting circuits
13:30 - 14:00 Yoram Alhassid
Mesoscopic superconductivity in nano-scale metallic grains
14:00 - 14:20 Frédéric Piéchon, Arnaud Raoux, Jean-Noël Fuchs, and Gilles Montambaux
Geometric effects on the orbital magnetism
14:20 - 14:40 Katharina Stadler, Zhi Ping Yin, Jan von Delft, Gabriel Kotliar, and Andreas Weichselbaum
DMFT+NRG study of spin-orbital separation in a three-band Hund's metal

13:00 - 14:30 3 session - C parallel: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
chairperson: Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
13:00 - 13:30 Gregg Jaeger
Conceptualizing measurement
13:30 - 14:00 Ana María Cetto, Luis de la Peña, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández
Contribution of the vacuum fluctuations to blackbody radiation
14:00 - 14:30 Ehtibar Dzhafarov and Janne V Kujala
Contextuality in systems with measurement errors and signaling

14:40 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 16:00 4 session - A parallel: Quantum information, entanglement
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Elisabetta Paladino
15:00 - 15:20 Mazyar Mirrahimi
Cat-qubits: A new protocol for quantum information processing with superconducting circuits
15:20 - 15:40 Erhan Saglamyurek, Jeongwan Jin, Marcel.li Grimau Puigibert, Qiang Zhou, Lambert Giner, Lee Oesterling, David Nippa, Varun B. Verma, Matthew D. Shaw, Francesco Marsili, Sae Woo Nam, Daniel Oblak, and Wolfgang Tittel
A multiplexed quantum light-matter interface for fiber-based quantum networks
15:40 - 16:00 Michael Kastner
Propagation of correlations and entanglement in long-range lattice models

15:00 - 16:00 4 session - B parallel: Quantum optics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Marc Cheneau
15:00 - 15:20 Radim Filip
Nonlinear operations with quantum states of light
15:20 - 15:40 Serge Rosenblum, Itay Shomroni, Yulia Lovsky, Orel Bechler, Gabriel Guendelman, and Barak Dayan
Demonstration of deterministic photon-photon interactions with a single atom
15:40 - 16:00 Carsten Robens and Andrea Alberti
Quantum walks with neutral atoms

15:00 - 16:00 4 session - C parallel: Quantum thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
chairperson: Marlan Scully
15:00 - 15:20 Peter David Keefe
Bardeen hysteresis: A quantum mechanical basis for the second law?
15:20 - 15:40 Daniel P. Sheehan, David J. Mallin, Jonothan T. Garamella, and William F. Sheehan
Breakdown of the second law of thermodynamics in heterogeneous gas-surface reactions: Theory and experiment
15:40 - 16:00 Dragos-Victor Anghel and George Alexandru Nemnes
The BCS theory in the fractional exclusion statistics formalism

16:00 - 16:20 Free time

16:20 - 18:00 Special talks
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Pavel Kroupa, Václav Špička
16:20 - 17:00 Francois Hammer
Dark matter probes at different astronomical scales
17:00 - 17:40 Mordehai Milgrom
Scale invariance at low accelerations: An alternative to dark matter

17:40 - 18:00 Discussion

18:00 - 20:00 Poster session and refreshment
Location: Pyramida Hotel - first floor

20:00 - 21:00 Free time and transfer to St. Vitus Cathedral

21:00 - 22:10 Concert of classical music
Location: Prague Castle - St. Vitus Cathedral

 
Friday, 31 July 2015

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Jürgen Stockburger
08:00 - 08:30 Joscha Reichert, Peter Nalbach, Michael Thorwart, and Hermann Grabert
Response of dissipative quantum systems to driven bath modes
08:30 - 09:00 Matteo Carrega, Paolo Solinas, Alessandro Braggio, Maura Sassetti, and Ulrich Weiss
Functional integral approach to time-dependent heat exchange in open quantum systems
09:00 - 09:30 Rubén Seoane, Rémi Avriller, Alvaro Martín Rodero, Rosa C. Monreal, and Alfredo Levy Yeyati
Electron-phonon interactions and quantum noise in molecular junctions
09:30 - 10:00 Andrew White
Going down drains into blind alleys: From reality to causality in the quantum world

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - A parallel: Fluctuations
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Christopher Jarzynski
10:20 - 10:50 Liliana Arrachea
Time-resolved heat transport and extended thermoelectrics for ac-driven quantum systems
10:50 - 11:20 Yasuhiro Utsumi and Tomohiro Taniguchi
Fluctuation theorem for a small engine and magnetization switching by spin torque
11:20 - 11:50 Jakub Spiechowicz and Jerzy Łuczka
Efficiency of the SQUID ratchet
11:50 - 12:10 Shahaf Asban and Saar Rahav
Stochastic pumps of interacting particles

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - B parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: James Freericks
10:20 - 10:50 Angus MacKinnon and Muhammad Tahir
Transport in a quantum shuttle
10:50 - 11:20 Gianluca Stefanucci and Enrico Perfetto
NEGF approach to pump-probe photoabsorption spectroscopy
11:20 - 11:50 Thomas Motz, Joachim Ankerhold, and Jürgen T. Stockburger
Nonequilibrium steady states in open quantum systems: Stochastic mapping and exact results
11:50 - 12:10 Peter Schmitteckert
Electronic transport through interacting nano structures: beyond the scattering state solution

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - C parallel: Physics of graphene
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
chairperson: Yoram Alhassid
10:20 - 10:50 Mike Guidry
SO(8) fermion dynamical symmetry and quantum Hall states for graphene in a strong magnetic field
10:50 - 11:20 Jens Sonntag, Martin Geller, Annika Kurzmann, Axel Lorke, Friedemann Queisser, and Ralf Schützhold
Giant magneto-photoelectric effect in suspended graphene
11:20 - 11:50 Efrat Shimshoni, Ganpathy Murthy, and Herb A. Fertig
Collective edge modes near the onset of a graphene quantum spin Hall state
11:50 - 12:10 Alessandro De Martino
Electric-dipole-induced universality for Dirac fermions in graphene

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 3 session: Quantum optics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Wolfgang Schleich
13:00 - 13:30 Marlan O. Scully
Single photon superradiance and subradiance
13:30 - 14:00 Norbert Kroo
Surface plasmon assisted electron pairing in gold at room temperature
14:00 - 14:30 Benjamin Ashwell, Sai Ramakrishna, and Tamar Seideman
Coherent alignment in complex systems

14:30 - 14:50 Coffee break

14:50 - 16:20 4 session: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Marlan Scully
14:50 - 15:20 Marc Cheneau
Atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment
15:20 - 15:50 Ulf Leonhardt
Cosmology in the laboratory
15:50 - 16:20 Dirk Bouwmeester
Knots of light, gravitational radiation, and plasma

16:20 - 17:30 Free time and transfer to Břevnov Monastery

17:30 - 23:00 Conference dinner and concert
Location: Břevnov Monastery

17:30 - 18:00 Welcome

18:00 - 19:30 Guided tour through Břevnov monastery

19:30 - 21:00 First part of the conference dinner

21:00 - 22:00 Concert of classical music in the St. Margaret Church

22:00 - 23:00 Second part of the conference dinner

 
Saturday, 1 August 2015

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Michael Thoss
08:00 - 08:30 Juan Carlos Cuevas, V. Fernandez-Hurtado, J. Feist, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, B. Song, Y. Ganjeh, S. Sada, S. Thompson, D. Fiorino, A. Kim, K. Lee, W. Jeong, W. Meyhofer, and E. Reddy
Near-field radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale
08:30 - 09:00 Michael Galperin
Energy transport and heating in molecular junctions
09:00 - 09:30 Rudolf Hilfer
On the relation between nonlocality, irreversibility and global existence
09:30 - 10:00 Marcelo Lozada-Cassou and Gerardo Odriozola
Molecular recognition and information theory in the self-assembling of charged particles

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:00 2 session: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
10:20 - 10:50 Wolfgang Schleich
The Stefan-Boltzmann law: Two classical laws give a quantum one
10:50 - 11:20 Kimball A. Milton, Romain Guerout, Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Astrid Lambrecht, and Serge Reynaud
Negative Casimir entropies in nanoparticle interactions
11:20 - 11:40 Mikhail Baranov
Majorana fermions in atomic-wire networks - realization of non-Abelian anyons
11:40 - 12:00 Joan A. Vaccaro
Quantum mechanism that makes time different to space

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 3 session: Quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall
chairperson: Jonathan Lavoie
13:00 - 13:30 Mikko Möttönen, Michael W. Ray, Emmi Ruokokoski, Konstantin Tiurev, Saugat Kandel, Harri Mäkelä, and David S. Hall
Discoveries of magnetic-monopole analogues in Bose-Einstein condensates
13:30 - 13:50 Mario Krenn, Johannes Handsteiner, Matthias Fink, Robert Fickler, and Anton Zeilinger
Twisted photon entanglement through turbulent air across Vienna
13:50 - 14:10 Václav Špička, Anděla Kalvová, and Bedřich Velický
Non-equilibrium dynamics: Initial conditions and asymptotic evolution

14:10 - 14:40 Closing and refreshment
Location: Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall