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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

 
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