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 |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | 1 session: Quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Christopher Jarzynski |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Ana Maria Cetto |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Pawel Danielewicz |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Michael Thorwart |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Linda Reichl |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Marlan Scully |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Yoram Alhassid |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | James Freericks |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Alexander Shnirman |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Marlan Scully |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Thomas Vojta |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Arkady Plotnitsky |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička, Peter Keefe |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Saar Rahav |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Ferdinand Evers |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Yoram Alhassid |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | William Wooters |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | James Freericks |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Stefan Klumpp |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Theo Nieuwenhuizen |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Oren Tal |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Yasuhiro Utsumi |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Giles Montambaux |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička, Peter Keefe |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Ora Entin-Wohlman |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Warwick Bowen |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Jurgen Stockburger |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Ronnie Kosloff |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Peter Keefe |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Peter Schmitteckert |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Eric Lutz |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Liliana Arrachea |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Michael Thorwart |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Pawel Danielewicz |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Saar Rahav |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Austin Lund |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Warwick Bowen |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | William Wooters |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Steven Girvin |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Michael Galperin |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Marc Cheneau |
| 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 |
| chairperson: | Branislav Nikolic |
| 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 |