Logo

Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

27 July - 1 August 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

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

 
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