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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

9 - 15 July 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

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

 
Sunday, 9 July 2017

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

 
Monday, 10 July 2017

08:00 - 8:30 Opening addresses
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall

08:30 - 10:00 1 session: Quantum thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
08:30 - 09:00 Marlan Scully
Quantum entropy
09:00 - 09:30 Lisan Marques Durão and Amir Ordacgi Caldeira
Statistical entropy of open quantum systems
09:30 - 10:00 Peter Hänggi and Peter Talkner
(Quantum) - Thermodynamics at strong coupling and its implications for Stochastic Thermodynamics

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
10:20 - 10:50 Alexia Auffèves and Philippe Grangier
Recovering the quantum formalism from physically realist axioms
10:50 - 11:20 Zlatko Minev, Howard J Carmichael, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Jáuregui, and Michel H Devoret
Monitored quantum jumps do not “jump”: A proposed experimental demonstration in superconducting circuits
11:20 - 11:50 Cyril Elouard, David Herrera-Marti, Maxime Clusel, Benjamin Huard, and Alexia Auffèves
Rebuilding quantum thermodynamics on quantum measurement
11:50 - 12:10 Sebastian Deffner
Foundations of statistical mechanics from symmetries of entanglement

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 3 session: Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
13:00 - 13:30 Jens Eisert
Quantum systems out of equilibrium, quantum simulation and the quest for quantum supremacy
13:30 - 14:00 David Jennings
Irreversibility and symmetry principles in quantum theory
14:00 - 14:30 Wei-Min Zhang
General non-Markovian dynamics in open quantum systems
14:30 - 15:00 Howard Mark Wiseman, Li Li, and Michael John Hall
What is quantum Markovianity?

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 16:50 4 session: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
15:20 - 15:50 Jianshu Cao
Quantum coherence and thermodynamics in non-equilibrium transport
15:50 - 16:20 Shmuel Gurvitz, Gennady Berman, and Richard Sayre
Closed quantum Master equations for energy transfer in Light-Harvesting complex and multi-exciton dynamics
16:20 - 16:50 Chloé Rolland, Marc Westig, Ambroise Peugeot, Olivier Parlavecchio, Yuryi Mukarsky, Björn Kubala, Carles Altimiras, Philippe Joyez, Denis Vion, Patrice Roche, Pascal Simon, Max Hofheinz, Mirca Trif, Joachim Ankerhold, Fabien Portier, and Daniel Esteve
When quantum transport meets quantum optics

16:50 - 17:00 Free time

17:00 - 18:20 Round table discussion
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall

17:00 - 18:20 Quantum thermodynamics, measurement and systems out of equilibrium

18:20 - 19:30 Free time and transfer to Wallenstein Palace

19:30 - 22:30 Welcome party
Location: Wallenstein Palace and its Garden

19:30 - 20:00 Opening

20:00 - 22:30 Welcome party in the Wallenstein Palace Garden

 
Tuesday, 11 July 2017

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Cold atoms
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
08:00 - 08:30 Yoram Alhassid
The nature of superfluidity in the cold atomic unitary Fermi gas
08:30 - 09:00 Tilman Esslinger
Supersolid phases in quantum gases
09:00 - 09:30 Frédéric Chevy
From ultraslow to ultrafast. Analog simulation of Weyl fermions using ultracold atoms
09:30 - 10:00 Christophe Salomon, Sebastien Laurent, Matthieu Pierce, Marion Delehaye, Shuwei Jin, Tarik Yefsah, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, and Frederic Chevy
Bose-Fermi dual superfluids

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session: Plasmonics, biophysics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
10:20 - 10:50 Partha Partim Pal and Tamar Seideman
Current-driven phenomena in surface nanoscience
10:50 - 11:20 Philip Hemmer and Todd Zapata
Organic nanodiamonds
11:20 - 11:50 Reinhard Lipowsky
From curvature elasticity to synthetic biology
11:50 - 12:10 Stefan Klumpp
Life in crowded conditions

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 3 session - A parallel: Cold atoms, biophysics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
13:00 - 13:30 Davide Dreon, Leonid A Sidorenkov, Chayma Bouazza, Thomas Chalopin, Wilfried Maineult, Jean Dalibard, and Sylvain Nascimbene
Ultracold dysprosium gases: A complex system from radiative trapping to many-body physics
13:30 - 14:00 Nir Navon
Tuning the dissipation scale of a quantum-gas turbulent cascade
14:00 - 14:20 Fernando Sols
Synthetic magnetic fields in cold atom systems
14:20 - 14:40 Francesco Scazza, Giacomo Valtolina, Andrea Amico, Pedro Tavares, Pietro Massignan, Alessio Recati, Alessia Burchianti, Chiara Fort, Massimo Inguscio, Matteo Zaccanti, and Giacomo Roati
From N+1 to N+N: Exploring repulsive many-body states with ultracold spin mixtures
14:40 - 15:00 Lawrence S. Schulman
Model of horizontal gene transfer, and another power law mystery

13:00 - 15:00 3 session - B parallel: Quantum transport, thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
13:00 - 13:30 Andrea Hofmann, Ville Maisi, Tobias Krähenmann, Christian Reichl, Werner Wegscheider, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin
Spin-orbit interaction on the level of individual electrons
13:30 - 14:00 Jae Sung Lee and Hyunggyu Park
Carnot efficiency in an irreversible process
14:00 - 14:20 Martin Josefsson, Artis Svilans, Adam M Burke, Claes Thelander, Martin Leijnse, and Heiner Linke
A quantum-dot heat engine operated near its theoretical efficiency limits
14:20 - 14:40 Mauro Antezza
Excitation injector in an atomic chain: Long-ranged transport and efficiency amplification
14:40 - 15:00 Jakub Spiechowicz, Peter Talkner, Peter Hänggi, and Jerzy Luczka
Nonmonotonic temperature dependence of diffusion in driven periodic systems

13:00 - 15:00 3 session - C parallel: Quantum phase transitions
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
13:00 - 13:30 Daniel Podolsky, Efrat Shimshoni, Giovanna Morigi, and Shmuel Fishman
Classical and quantum buckling transitions in cold ion crystals
13:30 - 14:00 Konstantin Krutitsky, Andreas Osterloh, and Ralf Schuetzhold
Avalanche of entanglement and correlations at quantum phase transitions
14:00 - 14:20 Thomas Vojta, Jack Crewse, and Daniel Arovas
Fate of the amplitude (Higgs) mode at a disordered quantum phase transition
14:20 - 14:40 Ricardo Gutiérrez-Jáuregui and Howard J Carmichael
Fluctuations in dissipative quantum phase transitions at finite size
14:40 - 15:00 Roland E Allen, Ayman Abdullah-Smoot, Michelle Gohlke, David Lujan, James Sharp, and Ross Tagaras
Ultrafast phase transitions in advanced materials, including light-induced superconductivity

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 17:00 4 session - A parallel: Quantum optics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
15:20 - 15:50 Edward Strauss Fry
Integrating cavities and ultra-sensitive absorption spectroscopy
15:50 - 16:20 Cyril Laplane, Pierre Jobez, Jean Etesse, Nicolas Gisin, and Mikael Afzelius
Multiplexed quantum correlated photons generated with a tunable delay in a solid-state ensemble
16:20 - 16:40 Janne Ruostekoski, Gaetan Facchinetti, and Stewart Jenkins
Cooperative atom response to light and giant subradiant correlations in arrays of atoms
16:40 - 17:00 Radim Filip
Non-Gaussian quantum optics and optomechanics

15:20 - 17:00 4 session - B parallel: Majorana fermions
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
15:20 - 15:50 Stefan Backens, Yuval Gefen, Yuriy Makhlin, Johan E. Mooij, Gerd Schoen, and Alexander Shnirman
Emulating Majorana fermions and their braiding by Ising spin chains
15:50 - 16:20 Pascal Simon
Topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states in 2D superconductors
16:20 - 16:40 Llorenç Serra
Current distributions and conductance oscillations in stripe Majorana junctions
16:40 - 17:00 Kyrylo Snizhko, Reinhold Egger, and Yuval Gefen
Measurement and control of Coulomb-blockaded parafermion box

15:20 - 17:00 4 session - C parallel: Cosmology, quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
15:20 - 15:50 Andrei Khrennikov
Quantum-like models: From information laser to color revolutions, Brexit and Donald Trump
15:50 - 16:20 Pavel Kroupa
Galaxy formation in Milgromian gravitation
16:20 - 16:40 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Subjecting theories of dark matter to the cluster test
16:40 - 17:00 Y. Jack Ng, Doug Edmonds, Duncan Farrah, Djordje Minic, and Tatsu Takeuchi
Gravitational thermodynamics and modified dark matter

17:00 - 19:00 Free time and transfer to National House

19:00 - 22:30 Evening session: Public lecture of Anton Zeilinger and concert
Location: National House of Vinohrady - Mayakovsky Hall

19:00 - 19:15 Music introduction and opening address

19:15 - 20:30 Public lecture
19:15 - 20:15 Anton Zeilinger
From quantum puzzles to quantum information technology

20:15 - 20:30 Discussion after the lecture of Anton Zeilinger

20:30 - 20:45 Break

20:45 - 22:00 Concert of classical music

 
Wednesday, 12 July 2017

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Molecular machines, quantum engines
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
08:00 - 08:30 Ronnie Kosloff
Dynamical view of quantum thermodynamics
08:30 - 09:00 Gershon Kurizki, Wolfgang Niedenzu, Abraham Kofman, and Victor Mukherjee
Universal thermodynamic bound on quantum engine efficiency
09:00 - 09:30 Stefan Nimmrichter, Alexandre Roulet, Juan Miguel Arrazola, Stella Seah, Jibo Dai, and Valerio Scarani
Quantum rotor engines and absorption fridges
09:30 - 10:00 Ortwin Hess, Joachim M Hamm, Tommaso Tuffarelli, Heiko Gross, and Bert Hecht
Quantum theory of room temperature single quantum-dot strong-coupling with plasmonic nanoresonators

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - A parallel: Molecular Junctions
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
10:20 - 10:50 Galen Craven and Abraham Nitzan
Electron transfer across thermal gradients
10:50 - 11:20 Ora Entin-Wohlman
Enhanced performance of three-terminal thermoelectric devices
11:20 - 11:50 Maayan Kuperman and Uri Peskin
Field-induced inversion of resonant tunneling currents through single molecule junctions and the directional photo-electric effect
11:50 - 12:10 Oren Tal
Magneto-conductance and spin related shot noise properties of half-metallic molecular junctions

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - B parallel: Cold atoms, transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
10:20 - 10:50 Thomas Gasenzer
Strongly anomalous non-thermal fixed point in a quenched Bose gas
10:50 - 11:20 Linda E. Reichl and Erich D Gust
Microscopic hydrodynamic modes in a hard sphere binary mixture
11:20 - 11:50 Gergely Zarand, Marton Kormos, and Pascu Moca
A semi-semiclassical approach to quantum quenches
11:50 - 12:10 Jalil Khatibi Moqadam, Marcos Cesar de Oliveira, and Renato Portugal
Staggered quantum walks with superconducting microwave resonators

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - C parallel: Physics of information
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
10:20 - 10:50 Antonio D'Arrigo, Giuseppe Falci, and Elisabetta Paladino
Quantum control of non-Gaussian noise in hybrid quantum networks
10:50 - 11:20 Giuseppe Falci, Alessandro Ridolfo, Pietro G. Di Stefano, and Elisabetta Paladino
Probing ultrastrong coupling by coherent amplification of population transfer
11:20 - 11:50 Austin Peter Lund, Saleh Rahimi-Keshari, and Timothy Cameron Ralph
Boson sampling and continuous variables
11:50 - 12:10 Masanao Ozawa
Quantum root mean square error and universally valid uncertainty relations

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 3 session - A parallel: Quantum Thermodynamics, transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
13:00 - 13:30 Kevin Marc Seja, Gediminas Kirsanskas, Carsten Timm, and Andreas Wacker
Violation of Onsager’s theorem in approximate master equation approaches
13:30 - 14:00 Soumya Bera, Giuseppe DeTomasi, Felix Weiner, and Ferdinand Evers
Propagation of charge and energy density in disordered interacting quantum wires - ergodic phases with subdiffusive dynamics?
14:00 - 14:20 Gilles Montambaux
The generalized Stefan-Boltzmann law
14:20 - 14:40 Rudolf Hilfer
Thermodynamics in the presence of anomalous flows
14:40 - 15:00 Jonathan Reiner, Abhay Kumar Nayak, Nurit Avraham, Binghai Yan, Yan Sun, Ion Cosma Fulga, Jung-Hyun Kang, Torsten Karzig, Hadas Shtrikman, and Haim Beidenkopf
One dimensional hot electrons regain coherence in semiconducting nanowires

13:00 - 15:00 3 session - B parallel: General physics, biophysics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
13:00 - 13:30 Denys Bondar, Renan Cabrera, Andre Campos, and Herschel Rabitz
Measurement inspired modeling of dynamical systems
13:30 - 14:00 Michael Guidry
A multidisciplinary approach to the theory of emergent states
14:00 - 14:20 Marcelo Lozada-Cassou and Enrique González-Tovar
Long range correlation in complex fluids
14:20 - 14:40 Andrei E. Tarkhov, Sandro Wimberger, and Boris V. Fine
Lyapunov exponents in many-body systems from Loschmidt echoes
14:40 - 15:00 Jiří J. Mareš, Pavel Hubík, and Václav Špička
Possible role of quantum diffusion in ontogenesis of nervous tissue

13:00 - 15:00 3 session - C parallel: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
13:00 - 13:30 Ana María Cetto, Luis de la Peña, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández
A physical explanation for the connection between the electron spin and statistics
13:30 - 14:00 Joan A Vaccaro
Physical signatures of the quantum nature of time
14:00 - 14:20 Luis de la Peña, Ana María Cetto, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández
Classical explanation of the quantum problem of the particle in a well: Role of the zero-point radiation field
14:20 - 14:40 Carlos Baladrón and Andrei Khrennikov
Bell inequality violation in the framework of a Darwinian approach to quantum mechanics
14:40 - 15:00 Arkady Plotnitsky
"Human, All Too Human:" On the concept of quantum state, from Bohr’s atom to quantum automata

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 17:00 4 session - A parallel: Superconducting junctions
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
15:20 - 15:50 Kuan Yen Tan, Shumpei Masuda, Matti Partanen, Russell Evan Lake, Joonas Govenius, Matti Silveri, Hermann Grabert, and Mikko Möttönen
Experiments on temporally controllable dissipation in superconducting quantum circuits
15:50 - 16:20 Artem V. Galaktionov, Dmitry S. Golubev, and Andrei D. Zaikin
Andreev levels as a quantum dissipative environment for superconducting nanojunctions
16:20 - 16:40 Liliana Arrachea, Alberto Camjayi, Armando Aligia, and Felix von Oppen
Josephson current in time-reversal invariant topological superconductors
16:40 - 17:00 Thibaut Jonckheere, Jerome Rech, Alex Zazunov, Reinhold Egger, and Thierry Martin
Hanbury Brown and Twiss noise correlations in a topological superconductor beam splitter

15:20 - 17:00 4 session - B parallel: Fluctuations
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
15:20 - 15:50 Sebastien Jezouin, Zubair Iftikhar, Anne Anthore, Francois Parmentier, Ulf Gennsser, Antonella Cavanna, Abdelkarim Ouerghi, Ivan Levkivskyi, Edvin Idrisov, Eugen Sukhorukov, Leonid Glazman, and Frederic Pierre
Controlling charge quantization with quantum fluctuations
15:50 - 16:20 Kensuke Kobayashi
Fluctuations along symmetry crossover in a Kondo-correlated quantum dot
16:20 - 16:40 David Sanchez
Cotunneling drag effect in double quantum dots
16:40 - 17:00 Marti Perarnau-Llobet, Elisa Bäumer, Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Marcus Huber, and Antonio Acin
No-go theorem for the characterisation of work fluctuations in coherent quantum systems

15:20 - 17:00 4 Session - C parallel: Graphene, Casimir forces
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
15:20 - 15:50 Eric Akkermans, Omrie Ovdat, Eva Andrei, and Jinhai Mao
Quantum symmetry breaking: Observation of scale anomaly in graphene
15:50 - 16:20 Luciano C. Lapas, Agustin Pérez Madrid, and J. Miguel Rubi
Casimir forces out of equilibrium
16:20 - 16:40 Laura Cohnitz, Alessandro De Martino, Wolfgang Häusler, and Reinhold Egger
Chiral interface states in pn junctions in graphene
16:40 - 17:00 Sense Jan van der Molen
Probing the electronic coupling between atomically thin layers in van der Waals systems

17:00 - 19:00 Free time and transfer to Rudolfinum

19:00 - 22:30 Evening session: Public lecture of John Pendry and concert
Location: Rudolfinum Dvořák's Hall

19:00 - 19:15 Music introduction and opening address

19:15 - 20:30 Public lecture
19:15 - 20:15 John Pendry
Metamaterials and the science of invisibility

20:15 - 20:30 Discussion after the lecture of John Pendry

20:30 - 20:45 Break

20:45 - 22:00 Concert of classical music

 
Thursday, 13 July 2017

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Physics of mesoscopic systems
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
08:00 - 08:30 Yaakov Kleeorin, Yigal Meir, Catalin Pascu Moca, and Gergely Zarand
How can one measure the entropy of a mesoscopic system?
08:30 - 09:00 Hermann Grabert
Input-output theory for AC driven tunnel junctions
09:00 - 09:30 Amnon Aharony
Spin orbit interactions, time reversal symmetry and spin filtering
09:30 - 10:00 Michael Pollak
A new look at an old controversy: Interacting electrons in Anderson-Mott insulators

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session: Optomechanics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
10:20 - 10:50 Nikolai Kiesel
New frontiers in quantum optomechanics: From levitation to gravitation
10:50 - 11:20 Andreas Nunnenkamp
Non-reciprocity and directional amplification with cavity optomechanics
11:20 - 11:50 Yaxing Zhang, Jennifer Gosner, Björn Kubala, Steven M. Girvin, Mark Dykman, and Joachim Ankerhold
Multiple-period Floquet states and time-translation symmetry breaking in quantum oscillators
11:50 - 12:10 Niels Lörch, Simon E. Nigg, Andreas Nunnenkamp, Rakesh P. Tiwari, and Christoph Bruder
Quantum synchronization

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - A parallel: Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
13:00 - 13:30 Michael Thoss
Simulation of quantum transport in molecular junctions using multiconfiguration wavefunction and reduced density matrix methods
13:30 - 14:00 Francesco Petruccione and Ilya Sinayskiy
A repeated interaction approach to open quantum walks and open quantum Brownian motion
14:00 - 14:20 Eric Lutz
Irreversibility and the arrow of time in a quenched quantum system
14:20 - 14:40 Peter Schmitteckert
A discrete energy space induced fermion parity breaking fixed point of the Kondo model

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - B parallel: Thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
13:00 - 13:30 Shin-ichi Sasa, Sho Sugiura, and Yuki Yokokura
Thermodynamic entropy as a Noether invariant
13:30 - 14:00 Ilana Bogod and Saar Rahav
The copying fidelity of a polymerase facing an obstacle
14:00 - 14:20 Thomas L. Schmidt and Patrick Haughian
Quantum thermodynamics in strongly coupled quantum dots
14:20 - 14:40 Roberto M. Serra
Experimental rectification of entropy production by a Maxwell's demon in a quantum system

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - C parallel: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
13:00 - 13:30 Nicolas Roch
Quantum simulation of the spin-boson model: Monitoring the bath
13:30 - 14:00 Bryan J Dalton and Margaret D Reid
EPR steering, Bell non-locality and entanglement in systems of identical massive bosons
14:00 - 14:20 Hans A Schuessler, Kunihiro Okada, Aiko Takamine, Michiharu Wada, Feng Zhu, Cade Perkins, James Bounds, and Hideki Iimura
Sympathetic cooling of mixed ion Coulomb crystals
14:20 - 14:40 Suzy Lidström and Roland E Allen
Life, the universe, and everything -- the emerging Renaissance of physics and astronomy

14:40 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 16:00 4 session - A parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
15:00 - 15:20 Pascal Stadler, Wolfgang Belzig, and Gianluca Rastelli
Ground state cooling of a nanomechanical resonator by electron transport
15:20 - 15:40 Rafael Sánchez, Holger Thierschmann, and Laurens W. Molenkamp
All-thermal transistor based on stochastic switching
15:40 - 16:00 Miguel Ortuno, Louk Rademaker, and Andres M. Somoza
Many-body localization from displacement transformations

15:00 - 16:00 4 session - B parallel: Stochastic thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
15:00 - 15:20 Zongping Gong, Yueheng Lan, and Haitao Quan
Stochastic thermodynamics of a particle in a box
15:20 - 15:40 Édgar Roldán, Izaak Neri, and Frank Jülicher
Negative records of entropy production: The infimum law
15:40 - 16:00 Izaak Neri, Simone Pigolotti, Édgar Roldán, and Frank Jülicher
Universal statistics of entropy production in Langevin processes

15:00 - 16:00 4 session - C parallel: Superconductivity
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
15:00 - 15:20 Peter D. Keefe
Proposed experimental investigation into relaxation phenomena in the adiabatic phase transition of Type I superconductor particles
15:20 - 15:40 Dragos-Victor Anghel
New phenomenology from an old theory -- the BCS theory of superconductivity revisited
15:40 - 16:00 Mojtaba A. Rahimi, Ali G. Moghaddam, Cameron Dykstra, Michele Governale, and Ulrich Zülicke
Unconventional superconductivity from magnetism in transition metal dichalcogenides

16:00 - 16:20 Free time

16:20 - 17:00 Special talk
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
16:20 - 17:00 Emmanuel Fort
Hydrodynamic analog of wave-particle duality

17:00 - 18:50 Poster session and refreshment
Location: Pyramida Hotel - first floor

18:50 - 20:00 Transfer to St. Vitus Cathedral

20:00 - 21:10 Concert of classical music
Location: Prague Castle - St. Vitus Cathedral

 
Friday, 14 July 2017

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
08:00 - 08:30 Jan van Ruitenbeek
High current-bias effects in atomic and molecular junctions
08:30 - 09:00 R. Seoane Souto, Rémi Avriller, R. C. Monreal, A. Martín-Rodero, and A. Levy Yeyati
Time-dependent quantum transport in molecular junctions: Some effects of electron-phonon interactions
09:00 - 09:30 James Freericks and Alexander Kemper
Relaxation of populations in nonequilibrium many-body physics: Breakdown of Mathiessen's rule
09:30 - 10:00 Pawel Danielewicz, Hossein Mahzoon, and Arnau Rios
Quantum dynamics of nuclear slabs: Mean field and short-range correlations

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - A parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
10:20 - 10:50 Emanuel Gull, Qiaoyuan Dong, Joseph Kleinhenz, and Igor Krivenko
Monte Carlo for real-time diagrammatics on the Keldysh contour – results from inchworm quantum Monte Carlo
10:50 - 11:20 Branislav K. Nikolić
Diagrammatic and resummation algorithms for electron-magnon and electron-phonon interacting systems in nanojunctions far from equilibrium
11:20 - 11:50 Claudio Verdozzi
Green’s function and (TD)DFT descriptions of lattice models out of equilibrium
11:50 - 12:10 Michael Galperin
Hubbard nonequilibrium Green functions

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - B parallel: Quantum heat engines
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
10:20 - 10:50 David Newman, Florian Mintert, and Ahsan Nazir
Performance of a quantum heat engine at strong reservoir coupling
10:50 - 11:20 Paolo Andrea Erdman, Francesco Mazza, Riccardo Bosisio, Giuliano Benenti, Rosario Fazio, and Fabio Taddei
Thermoelectric properties of an interacting QD-based heat engine
11:20 - 11:50 Konstantin Dorfman, Dazhi Xu, and Jianshu Cao
Quantum heat engine enhanced by coherence: Efficiency at maximum power and Chambadal-Novikov-Curzon-Ahlborn limit
11:50 - 12:10 Thomas Fogarty, Jing Li, Steve Campbell, Thomas Busch, and Xi Chen
Shortcuts to adiabaticity in the Feshbach engine

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - C parallel: Physics and information
Location: Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3
10:20 - 10:50 Lea F Santos and Jonathan Torres-Herrera
Static and dynamical properties of isolated many-body quantum systems
10:50 - 11:20 Yasuhiro Utsumi
Full-counting statistics of information content
11:20 - 11:50 Ofer Biham
Analytical results for the distribution of shortest path lengths in random networks
11:50 - 12:10 Eytan Katzav, Ido Tishby, and Ofer Biham
The distribution of last hitting times of self avoiding walks on random networks

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 3 Session: Optomechanics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
13:00 - 13:30 Matthew J. Weaver, Frank M. Buters, Fernando Luna, Hedwig J. Eerkens, Sven de Man, and Dirk Bouwmeester
Entangling mechanical resonators
13:30 - 14:00 Sanchar Sharma, Yaroslav M. Blanter, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer
Light scattering in cavity optomagnonics
14:00 - 14:30 Marco Gramegna, Fabrizio Piacentini, Alessio Avella, Eliahu Cohen, Rudi Lussana, Federica Villa, Alberto Tosi, Franco Zappa, Giorgio Brida, Ivo P. Degiovanni, and Marco Genovese
Measuring non-commuting observables of a single photon via sequential weak values evaluation

14:30 - 14:50 Coffee break

14:50 - 16:20 4 Session: Physics of quantum information
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
14:50 - 15:20 Steven Mark Girvin
Quantum bath engineering and quantum error correction in circuit QED
15:20 - 15:50 Florian Fröwis, Peter C Strassmann, Alexey Tiranov, Corentin Gut, Jonathan Lavoie, Nicolas Brunner, Félix Bussières, Mikael Afzelius, and Nicolas Gisin
Experimental certification of millions of genuinely entangled atoms in a solid
15:50 - 16:20 Mario Krenn, Armin Hochrainer, Mayukh Lahiri, Mehul Malik, Robert Fickler, Radek Lapkiewicz, and Anton Zeilinger
On computer-designed quantum experiments

16:20 - 18:00 Free time and transfer to Břevnov Monastery

18:00 - 23:00 Conference dinner and concert
Location: Břevnov Monastery

18:00 - 18:20 Welcome

18:20 - 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, 15 July 2017

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
08:00 - 08:30 D. Christian Glattli
Levitons, minimal excitation states for single electron sources in electron quantum optics
08:30 - 09:00 Marc Cheneau
A two-particle, four-mode interferometer for atoms
09:00 - 09:30 Sebastien Gleyzes, Adrien Facon, Eva-Katharina Dietsche, Arthur Larrouy, Dorian Grosso, Jean-Michel Raimond, Serge Haroche, and Michel Brune
A sensitive electrometer based on a Rydberg atom in a Schrodinger-cat state
09:30 - 10:00 Johannes Handsteiner, Andrew S. Friedman, Dominik Rauch, Jason Gallicchio, Bo Liu, Hannes Hosp, Johannes Kofler, David Bricher, Matthias Fink, Calvin Leung, Anthony Mark, Hien T. Nguyen, Isabella Sanders, Fabian Steinlechner, Rupert Ursin, Sören Wengerowsky, Alan H. Guth, David I. Kaiser, Thomas Scheidl, and Anton Zeilinger
Cosmic Bell test: Measurement settings from Milky Way stars

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 11:50 2 session: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
10:20 - 10:50 Hong-Guang Duan, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Richard Cogdell, Khuram Ashraf, Amy L. Stevens, Michael Thorwart, and R.J. Dwayne Miller
Quantum coherence in the dynamics of biomolecular excitons - revisited
10:50 - 11:20 Wolfgang Belzig
Quantum entanglement detection in quantum transport
11:20 - 11:50 Nicolas P. Mauranyapin, Lars S. Madsen, Michael A. Taylor, Muhammad Waleed, and Warwick P. Bowen
Single molecule biosensing at the quantum limit

11:50 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 3 session: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
13:00 - 13:30 Alessandro Romito and Yuval Gefen
Bell non-local correlations from Majorana end-points
13:30 - 14:00 Christopher Jarzynski, Sebastian Deffner, Ayoti Patra, and Yigit Subasi
A classical route to quantum control
14:00 - 14:30 Samuel Alterman, Jaeho Choi, and William Wootters
The Boltzmann distribution and the quantum-classical correspondence
14:30 - 15:00 Alexander Pechen
Use of a non-equilibrium environment for controlling open quantum systems

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 16:00 4 session: Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
15:20 - 15:40 Jürgen T. Stockburger
Mutual information: A key concept for irreversibility and mesoscopic thermodynamics
15:40 - 16:00 Václav Špička, Bedřich Velický, and Anděla Kalvová
Relation between full NEGF, Non-Markovian and Markovian transport equations

16:00 - 16:30 Closing and refreshment