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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

9 - 15 July 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

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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