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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

27 July - 1 August 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

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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