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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

27 July - 1 August 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

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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