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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

9 - 15 July 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

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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