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 |