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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

9 - 15 July 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

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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