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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

9 - 15 July 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

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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