Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| Sunday, 14 July 2019 | |
| 17:00 - 21:00 | Registration and welcome refreshment |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel - lobby |
| Monday, 15 July 2019 | |
| 07:50 - 8:20 | Opening addresses |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička |
| 08:20 - 9:50 | 1 session: Nonequilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Michael Thorwart |
| 08:20 - 08:50 | Michael Wiedmann, Jürgen T. Stockburger, and Joachim Ankerhold Out-of-equilibrium operation of a quantum heat engine\\ beyond weak thermal contact |
| 08:50 - 09:20 | Jianshu Cao Quantum coherence and thermodynamics of non-equilibrium transport |
| 09:20 - 09:50 | Sebastian Erne, Robert Bücker, Thomas Gasenzer, Jürgen Berges, and Jörg Schmiedmayer Universal dynamics far from equilibrium |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Coffee break |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session: Quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Oren Tal |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Peter Hänggi Anomalous heat diffusion |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Jukka P. Pekola Quantum heat transport via a superconducting qubit |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Uri Peskin Towards mechanical stabilization of molecular tunneling devices: Cooling by heating, high voltage, and more |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Sumit Tewari, Richard Korytár, Ferdinand Evers, and Jan van Ruitenbeek Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:10 | 3 session - A parallel: Many body physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Thomas Vojta |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Fernando Sols, Gregor Pieplow, and Charles E Creffield Protected cat states in a driven superfluid boson gas |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Lea Santos, Mauro Schiulaz, and Jonathan Torres-Herrera Thouless and relaxation time scales in many-body quantum systems |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Satoshi Ejima, Fabian H. L. Essler, Florian Lange, Yukinori Ohta, Koudai Sugimoto, Tomoki Yamaguchi, and Holger Fehske Exotic criticality and symmetry-protected topological states in dimerised fermion, boson and spin chain models |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Boris V. Fine and Kai Ji Many-body dynamic localization effect in periodically driven finite clusters of spins 1/2 without disorder |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Thomas Chalopin, Jean Dalibard, Alexandre Evrard, Raphael Lopes, Vasiliy Makhalov, Sylvain Nascimbene, and Tanish Satoor Synthetic Landau levels with atomic dysprosium |
| 13:00 - 15:10 | 3 session - B parallel: Quantum transport, tunneling |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Juan Carlos Cuevas |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Ofir Shein Lumbroso, Lena Simine, Abraham Nitzan, Dvira Segal, and Oren Tal Electronic noise due to temperature differences across nanoscale conductors: Beyond standard thermal and shot noises |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Alfredo Levy Yeyati Revealing the fine structure of Andreev levels in hybrid nanowires |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gianmichele Blasi, Fabio Taddei, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Alessandro Braggio Cooper pair entanglement manipulation in hybrid topological Josephson junctions |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Pavel Tikhonov and Efrat Shimshoni Quantum thermal Hall effect of chiral spinons in a Kagome strip |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Pierre Doyeux, Ali Hassani Gangaraj, George Hanson, and Mauro Antezza Giant interatomic energy-transport amplification with nonreciprocal photonic topological insulators |
| 13:00 - 15:10 | 3 session - C parallel: General physics, quantum chemistry |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C |
| chairperson: | Jianshu Cao |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Armin Shayeghi and Markus Arndt Quantum-assisted molecule metrology |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Daniel Neuhauser GW0 for > 10K electrons: Stochastic GW |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Hans A. Schuessler, Feng Zhu, Jinbao Xia, James R. James Bounds, and Alexandre A. Kolomenskii Touching horizons with lasers |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Yutaka Shikano Statistical cost of interactive quantum phase estimation in quantum chemistry |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Lawrence S. Schulman and Bernard Gaveau Decoherence and the size of a wave packet |
| 13:00 - 15:10 | 3 session - D parallel: Biophysics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall D |
| chairperson: | Shmuel Gurvitz |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Stefan Klumpp Propulsion and fluctuations in magnetotactic bacteria |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Philip Hemmer Nanodiamonds and nanophosphors for quantum enhanced bio-sensing |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Marcelo Lozada-Cassou Violation of the local electroneutrality condition in an inhomogeneous macroions solution |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Lev Mourokh Physical models of proton-pumping complexes in mitochondria membranes |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík The possible role of extracellular tissue in biological neural networks |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 - 18:00 | 4 session: Light matter interaction |
| chairperson: | Warwick Bowen |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Edward S. Fry and John Mason A diffuse reflecting material for optical studies |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Ortwin Hess Ultrafast quantum nanophotonics: From nanoplasmonic strong coupling to quantum chaos in semiconductor lasers |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Dirk Bouwmeester, Donny de Bruin, Maria Gotz, and Dorris Heinrich Rare earth and DNA nanophotonics |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Niklas Mann, Axel Pelster, M. Reza Bakhtiari, and Michael Thorwart Nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions in a hybrid atom-optomechanical system |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Norbert Kroo Surface plasmon assisted room temperature Cooper pair formation in gold films |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Free time and transfer to Wallenstein Palace |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome party |
| Location: | Wallenstein Palace and its Garden |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Opening |
| 19:30 - 22:00 | Welcome party in the Wallenstein Palace Garden |
| Tuesday, 16 July 2019 | |
| 07:50 - 9:50 | 1 session: Physics of quantum information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Andrew White |
| 07:50 - 08:20 | Valentin Gebhart, Kyrylo Snizhko, Thomas Wellens, Andreas Buchleitner, Alessandro Romito, and Yuval Gefen Weak measurement induced geometric phase: A topological transition |
| 08:20 - 08:50 | Giuseppe Falci, Alessandro Ridolfo, Giuliano Benenti, and Elisabetta Paladino Adiabatic quantum operations in systems of ultrastrongly coupled matter and radiation |
| 08:50 - 09:20 | Joni Ikonen, Jan Goetz, Matti Silveri, Shumpei Masuda, Vasilii Sevriuk, Jesper Ilves, Aarne Keränen, Andras M. Gunyho, Matti Partanen, Kuan Y. Tan, Fabian Hassler, Russell E. Lake, Dibyendu Hazra, Leif Grönberg, Visa Vesterinen, Slawomir Simbierowicz, Juha Hassel, and Mikko Möttönen Fast measurement and initialization of superconducting qubits |
| 09:20 - 09:50 | Paul G. Kwiat Investigations of quantum superadditivity |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Coffee break |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session: Foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Ana María Cetto |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Wolfgang Belzig, Stanisław Sołtan, Mateusz Fraczak, and Adam Bednorz Is energy conserved when nobody looks? |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Nicolas R. Gisin Non-locality in quantum networks |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Jens Eisert Quantum field simulators: How they evolve in time, how they can be read out, and in what way they may realize quantum thermal machines |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Andrew N. Jordan and Cyril Elouard Quantum measurement engines |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - A parallel: Molecular junctions, tunneling |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Alessandro Braggio |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Juan Carlos Cuevas Peltier cooling in molecular junctions |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Didier Bathellier, Laurent Raymond, Thibaut Jonckheere, Jérôme Rech, Alex Zazunov, and Thierry Martin Finite frequency noise in a normal metal - topological superconductor junction |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | David Sanchez How to distinguish between interacting and noninteracting molecules in tunnel junctions |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Miguel A. Sierra, David Sánchez, Antti-Pekka Jauho, and Kristen Kaasbjerg Fluctuation-driven Coulomb drag in interacting quantum dot systems |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Thibaut Jonckheere, Jérôme Rech, Alex Zazunov, Reinhold Egger, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, and Thierry Martin Giant shot noise from Majorana zero modes in topological trijunctions |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - B parallel: Thermodynamics, general physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Saar Rahav |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Patrick Haughian, Edvin Idrisov, Massimiliano Esposito, and Thomas Schmidt A bath with a memory: Initial states in quantum thermodynamics |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Friedemann Queisser and Ralf Schützhold Dynamically assisted nuclear fusion |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Peter D. Keefe Second law implications of the size dependency in the adiabatic phase transition of Type I superconductors |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Daniel P. Sheehan Supradegeneracy, thermophotovoltaics, and the second law of thermodynamics |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Denys I. Bondar and Alexander Pechen Towards a resolution of the Riemann hypothesis via quantum control |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - C parallel: General physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C |
| chairperson: | Andrei Khrennikov |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov and Janne V. Kujala Measures of contextuality and non-contextuality |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Gary G. Rozenman, Lev Shemer, Matthias Zimmermann, Maxim A. Efremov, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Ady Arie Utilization of surface gravity water waves for the observation of quantum mechanical and optical phenomena |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Fabrizio Piacentini Quantum optical simulation of entangled particles near open time-like curves |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Roland E. Allen Black hole entropy, the black hole information paradox, and time travel paradoxes from a new perspective |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen The Standard Model of particle physics with Diracian neutrino sector |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - D parallel: Many body physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall D |
| chairperson: | Efrat Shimshoni |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Matteo Brunelli and Andreas Nunnenkamp Conditional dynamics of optomechanical back-action evading measurements |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Adrian Holzäpfel, Jean Etesse, Kristov Kaczmarek, Alexey Tiranov, Nicolas Gisin, and Mikael Afzelius Sub-second optical storage in an atomic frequency comb memory using dynamical decoupling |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Pietro Novelli, Fabio Taddei, Andre K. Geim, and Marco Polini Failure of conductance quantization in two-dimensional topological insulators due to non-magnetic impurities |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Dirk Semkat, Heinrich Stolz, Rico Schwartz, Julian Heckötter, Dietmar Fröhlich, Marc Aßmann, Manfred Bayer, and Holger Fehske Electron-hole plasma influence on band edge and Rydberg exciton lines in cuprous oxide |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Miklos Antal Werner, Arne Brataas, Felix von Oppen, and Gergely Zarand Universal scaling of quantum geometric tensor in disordered metals |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 - 16:40 | 4 session - A parallel: Quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Saar Rahav |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Kater Murch, Patrick Harrington, Mahdi Naghiloo, Andrew Jordan, Eric Lutz, and Alessandro Romito Exploring quantum thermodynamics with superconducting qubits |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Kaonan Micadei, Gabriel Landi, and Eric Lutz Quantum fluctuation theorems beyond two-point measurements |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Wei-Min Zhang, Md. M. Ali, and Wei-Ming Huang Quantum thermodynamics of single particle systems |
| 15:20 - 16:40 | 4 session - B parallel: Quantum optics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C |
| chairperson: | Edward Fry |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Alexei V. Sokolov Coherent Raman spectroscopy: From stand-off detection to nano-sensing |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Yuri Rostovtsev Excited quantum coherence: From plasmonically induced transparency to quantum correlation |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Sebastien Gleyzes, Arthur Larrouy, Sabrina Patsch, Rémi Richaud, Jean Michel Raimond, MIchel Brune, and Christiane Koch Optimal control for quantum metrology |
| 15:20 - 16:40 | 4 session - C parallel: Physics of quantum information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall D |
| chairperson: | Jean Etesse |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Andrew N. Cleland Surface acoustic wave phonons: Quantum control and quantum state transfer |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola, E. Alex Wollack, Jeremy D. Witmer, Timothy P. McKenna, Marek Pechal, Zhaoyou Wang, Wentao Jiang, Felix Mayor, Raphael Van Laer, Agnetta Cleland, Christopher Sarabalis, and Amir H. Safavi-Naeini Making hybrid quantum systems on a chip |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Eytan Katzav Distances in random networks - recent results |
| 16:40 - 18:40 | Poster session and refreshment |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel - first floor |
| 18:40 - 19:00 | Break |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Evening session: Public lecture of William Phillips and concert |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture 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 | William D. Phillips Time, Einstein and the coolest stuff in the universe |
| 20:15 - 20:30 | Discussion after the lecture of William Phillips |
| 20:30 - 20:45 | Break |
| 20:45 - 22:00 | Concert of classical music |
| Wednesday, 17 July 2019 | |
| 07:50 - 9:50 | 1 session: Thermodynamics and foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Eric Lutz |
| 07:50 - 08:20 | Udo Seifert The inevitable cost of precision |
| 08:20 - 08:50 | Abraham Nitzan Thermodynamics of strongly coupled driven quantum systems |
| 08:50 - 09:20 | Igor Dotsenko, Valentin Metillon, Michel Brune, and Jean-Michel Raimond Quantum themodynamics in cavity QED |
| 09:20 - 09:50 | E. Rebufello, S. Virzì, A. Avella, F. Piacentini, R. Lussana, El. Cohen, G. Brida, L. Vaidman, A. Tosi, Marco Gramegna, I. P. Degiovanni, and M. Genovese A journey through quantum measurement paradigms: From weak measurements to protective measurements, and more |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Coffee break |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - A parallel: Nonequilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | James Freericks |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Michael Bonitz Ultrafast dynamics of strongly correlated finite fermion systems |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Claudio Verdozzi Steering magnetic skyrmions with currents: A nonequilibrium Green’s functions approach |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Pawel Danielewicz, Hao Lin, Hossein Mahzoon, and Arnau Rios Nuclear slabs in terms of Green's functions: Collective oscillations with short-range correlations |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Frithjof B. Anders Theory of inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy for probing correlated many-body systems |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - B parallel: Quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Igor Dotsenko |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Gershon Kurizki Quantum thermodynamics under control |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Tamir Admon, Saar Rahav, and Yael Roichman Against the flow: A colloidal Maxwell's demon |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Rafael Sánchez, Janine Splettstoesser, and Robert S. Whitney Non-equilibrium systems as demons |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Paweł Bialas, Jakub Spiechowicz, and Jerzy Łuczka Quantum analogue of energy equipartition theorem |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - C parallel: Light matter interaction |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C |
| chairperson: | Edward Fry |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Evgenii Narimanov Ballistic metamaterials |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Radim Filip Quantum and stochastic physics of instable systems |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Robert Bettles, Lewis Williamson, Mark Lee, Magnus Borgh, Simon Gardiner, and Janne Ruostekoski Open quantum dynamics of cooperatively coupled atoms and light |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Michele Governale and Gianluca Rastelli Single-atom lasing in normal-superconductor quantum dots |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - D parallel: Physics of quantum information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall D |
| chairperson: | Denis Vion |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Oleg Nikiforov, Erik Fitzke, and Thomas Walther Quantum key distribution in a telecom network |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | K. Goswami, L. A. Howard, Y. Cao, G. G. Gillett, G. A. Paz-Silva, M. E. Pearce, R. A. Abrahão, P. Kok, J. Romero, and Andrew G. White Communicating via ignorance & imaging via counting |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Mario Krenn On computer-inspired science |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Francesco M. D. Pellegrino, Giuseppe Falci, and Elisabetta Paladino Critical current 1/f noise in graphene Josephson junction |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:30 | 3 session - A parallel: Many body physics, Quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Jürgen Stockburger |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Shmuel Gurvitz Directed particle flow at zero bias induced by random versus periodic drive |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Francesco Petruccione From unitary to open quantum walks |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Thais V. Trevisan, Gustavo M. Monteiro, and Amir O. Caldeira Amplification of the diamagnetic response in small Hubbard rings |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Michael Ridley Numerically exact full counting statistics of the Anderson impurity model |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Peter Schmitteckert Learning DFT and inverse mean field theories |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Yasuhiro Utsumi Full-counting statistics of information content and the optimum capacity |
| 13:00 - 15:30 | 3 session - B parallel: Quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Abraham Nitzan |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Stefan Nimmrichter, Stella Seah, Kiran E Khosla, and Valerio Scarani Quantum (thermo-)dynamics of randomly probed systems |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Bei-Lok Hu and Jen-Tsung Hsiang Quantum thermodynamics from the nonequilibrium dynamics of open systems |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Konstantin E. Dorfman Quantum heat engine with weak and strong coupled baths |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Jaegon Um, Konstantin Dorfman, and Hyunggyu Park Coherence effect in a multi-level quantum-dot heat engine |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Haitao Quan and Ken Funo Path integral approach to quantum thermodynamics |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Matteo Scandi, Harry J. D. Miller, Janet Anders, and Marti Perarnau-Llobet Work fluctuations in slow processes: Quantum signatures and optimal control |
| 13:00 - 15:30 | 3 session - C parallel: Topological states |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C |
| chairperson: | Thomas Vojta |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Hannes Weisbrich, Wolfgang Belzig, and Gianluca Rastelli Decoherence and relaxation of topological states in extended quantum Ising models |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Maxime Garnier, Andrej Mesaros, and Pascal Simon Topologically protected Majorana zero modes around the edge of a magnetic skyrmion |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Pavel E. Dolgirev, Mikhail S. Kalenkov, and Andrei D. Zaikin Topology-controlled macroscopic quantum coherent effects in multi-terminal Andreev interferometers |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Llorenç Serra Conductance oscillations and magnetic orbital effects with chiral Majorana modes |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Jerome Rech, Dario Ferraro, Flavio Ronetti, Luca Vannucci, Matteo Acciai, Thibaut Jonckheere, Maura Sassettti, and Thierry Martin Minimal excitations in the fractional quantum Hall regime |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Walter Hahn and Boris V. Fine Thermalization as an invisibility cloak for fragile quantum superpositions |
| 13:00 - 15:30 | 3 session - D parallel: Foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall D |
| chairperson: | Theo Nieuwenhuizen |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Arkady Plotnitsky Something happened: The real, the virtual, and the actual in quantum field theory |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Ana María Cetto, Luis de la Peña, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández On the physical meaning of the spin projection operator |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Toshio Croucher and Joan A. Vaccaro The quantum theory of time: Sources of T violation |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Bryan Dalton Bell non-locality in macroscopic systems |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Andrei Khrennikov Getting rid of the nonlocality nonsense: Violation of the Bell's type inequalities as a local expression of incompatibility |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Andrea Valdés-Hernández, Luis de la Peña, and Ana María Cetto Strong entanglement criterion based on momentum weak values |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Free time and transfer to National House |
| 17:00 - 22:00 | Evening session: Public lectures of Rainer Weiss, Wolfgang Ketterle and concert |
| Location: | National House of Vinohrady - Mayakovsky Hall |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička, Wolfgang Schleich, Peter Keefe |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Music introduction and opening address |
| 17:15 - 18:30 | Public lecture |
| 17:15 - 18:15 | Rainer Weiss The beginnings of gravitational wave astronomy |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | Discussion after the lecture of Rainer Weiss |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Break |
| 19:00 - 20:15 | Public lecture |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Wolfgang Ketterle Cooling close to absolute zero temperature: A recipe for discoveries |
| 20:00 - 20:15 | Discussion after the lecture of Wolfgang Ketterle |
| 20:15 - 20:30 | Break |
| 20:30 - 22:00 | Concert of classical music |
| Thursday, 18 July 2019 | |
| 07:50 - 9:50 | 1 session: Quantum physics and gravitation |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Michael Guidry |
| 07:50 - 08:20 | Wolfgang Schleich Quantum waves and gravity |
| 08:20 - 08:50 | Ernst Rasel Space-borne matter-wave interferences |
| 08:50 - 09:20 | Hartmut Abele Gravity resonance spectroscopy and the dark sector |
| 09:20 - 09:50 | Hansjoerg Dittus Quantum technology on GNSS |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Coffee break |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session: General physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Wolfgang Schleich |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | William D. Phillips The revolutionary changes to the International System of Units |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Wolfgang Ketterle Ultracold atoms as quantum simulators for new materials – optical lattices and synthetic gauge fields |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Rainer Weiss Quantum noise in LIGO |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Theodor W. Hänsch From the Lamb dip to the proton radius puzzle |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | 3 session: Quantum optics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Yuri Rostovtsev |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Lothar Maisenbacher, Axel Beyer, Vitaly Andreev, Alexey Grinin, Arthur Matveev, Ksenia Khabarova, Nikolai Kolachevsky, Randolf Pohl, Dylan Yost, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Thomas Udem Challenging QED with atomic hydrogen |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Olga Kocharovskaya Quantum optics with X-rays: Dynamical control of resonant interaction |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Federico Capasso Metasurfaces: From flat optics to structured light |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Break |
| 14:50 - 16:20 | 4 session: Foundations of physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Andrew Jordan |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Gerard ’t Hooft Constructing deterministic models for quantum mechanical systems |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Stephen A. Fulling Things we are still learning about uniform acceleration |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Marlan O. Scully From Bose condensates to black holes: Tribute to Bogoliubov |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Cofee break |
| 16:40 - 19:00 | Round table discussion |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička, Wolfgang Schleich |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Opening |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Tribute to Marlan Scully |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Disscusion: M. Scully, T. Hänsch, W. Ketterle, W. Phillips, G. ’t Hooft, R. Weiss, and others |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Transfer to St. Vitus Cathedral |
| 20:00 - 21:10 | Concert of classical music |
| Location: | Prague Castle - St. Vitus Cathedral |
| Friday, 19 July 2019 | |
| 07:50 - 9:50 | 1 session: Cold atoms out of equilibrium |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Wolfgang Ketterle |
| 07:50 - 08:20 | Yoram Alhassid, Scott Jensen, and Christopher N. Gilbreth Precision thermodynamics of the cold atomic unitary Fermi gas |
| 08:20 - 08:50 | Yauhen Sachkou, Christopher Baker, Glen Harris, Oliver Stockdale, Stefan Forstner, Matthew Reeves, Xin He, Andreas Sadawsky, Yasmine Sfendla, David McAuslan, Ashton Bradley, Matthew Davis, and Warwick Bowen Vortex dynamics in a strongly interacting two-dimensional superfluid |
| 08:50 - 09:20 | Vanderlei S. Bagnato Out of equilibrium BEC: The quantum turbulence and characteristics |
| 09:20 - 09:50 | Aurel Bulgac Real-time dynamics of fermionic superfluids: From cold atoms, to nuclei and neutron star crust |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Coffee break |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - A parallel: Physics of superfluids |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Vanderlei Bagnato |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Sun-Yong Hwang, Pablo Burset, and Björn Sothmann Odd-frequency superconductivity revealed by thermopower |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Linda E. Reichl and Corey Ostrove Local and nonlocal shot noise in high-Tc superconducting nanowires |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Nir Navon Scale invariance in a turbulent quantum gas: Cascade front dynamics and nonthermal steady states |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Frédéric Chevy The 2N+1 body problem: An impurity immersed in a strongly correlated fermionic superfluid |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - B parallel: Quantum phase transitions |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Yoram Alhassid |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Sabine Andergassen, Dominik Maile, Wolfgang Belzig, and Gianluca Rastelli Quantum phase transition with dissipative frustration |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Frank Schäfer and Niels Lörch Divergence of predictive model output as indication of phase transitions |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Joseph Maciejko Exotic quantum phase transitions in Dirac fermion systems |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Thomas Vojta, Martin Puschmann, Philipp Cain, and Michael Schreiber Integer quantum Hall transition on a tight-binding lattice |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - C parallel: Nonequilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C |
| chairperson: | Takafumi Kita |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Ilya Sinayskiy, Anesan Reddy, and Francesco Petruccione Prediction of the dissipative phase transition using machine learning techniques |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Doron Cohen Chaos, irreversibility and Hamiltonian hysteresis |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Abraham Nitzan and Michael Galperin Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics at surfaces and interfaces |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Rudolf Hilfer Quantum probability theory and the arrow of time |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - D parallel: Quantum transport, spin dynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall D |
| chairperson: | Thierry Martin |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Tao Yu, Chuanpu Liu, Haiming Yu, Yaroslav M. Blanter, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer Chiral excitations of spin waves in ferromagnetic films |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Branislav Nikolic and Utkarsh Bajpai Multiscale quantum-classical micromagnetics: Fundamentals and applications in spintronics |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Jaroslav Fabian Nonequilibrium spin phenomena in 2D materials |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Jonne V. Koski Circuit quantum electrodynamics with quantum dot qubits |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | 3 session: Many body physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Pawel Danielewicz |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Eberhard K.U. Gross Potential energy surfaces and Berry phases beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | James K. Freericks, Jeffrey Cohn, Forest Yang, Khadijeh Najafi, and Barbara A. Jones The minimal effective Gibbs ansatz (MEGA): A quantum computing framework for determining many-body correlation functions at nonzero temperature |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Christian Glattli, Maelle Kapfer, Preden Roulleau, Matthieu Santin, Ian Farrer, and David Ritchie A Josephson relation for e/3 and e/5 fractionally charged anyons |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Coffee break |
| 14:50 - 16:20 | 4 session: Nonequilibrium physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Ortwin Hess |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Claire Davis-Tilley, Chen Teoh, and Andrew Armour Dynamics of many-body quantum synchronisation |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Petr Hořava Topological quantum gravity of the Ricci flow |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Walter Pfeiffer Attosecond dynamics in solids after photoexcitation as a benchmark for our understanding of complex quantum systems |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Free time and transfer to Strahov Monastery |
| 17:00 - 23:00 | Guided tour, conference dinner and concert |
| Location: | Strahov Monastery |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Guided tour through Strahov Monastery |
| 19:00 - 19:20 | Welcome |
| 19:20 - 21:00 | First part of the conference dinner |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Concert of classical music in the Basilica of Assumption of Our Lady |
| 22:00 - 23:00 | Second part of the conference dinner |
| Saturday, 20 July 2019 | |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | 1 session: Quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | David Sanchez |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Ambroise Peugeot, Chloé Rolland, Olivier Paralvechio, Marc Westig, Gerbold Ménard, Iouri Moukharski, Bjorn Kubala, Carles Altimiras, Max Hofheinz, Patrice Roche, Philippe Joyez, Denis Vion, Pascal Simon, Joachim Ankerhold, Daniel Esteve, and Fabien Portier Quantum microwaves with a dc-biased Josephson junction |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Harold U. Baranger Nonequilibrium dissipative quantum dots: I-V curves and quantum critical points |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Jessica Fernanda Da Silva Barbosa, Bartolo Albanese, Emanuele Albertinale, Marianne le Dantec, Moonjoo Lee, Milos Rancic, Vishal Ranjan, Emmanuel Flurin, Denis Vion, Patrice Bertet, and Daniel Esteve Hybrid spin-superconducting circuits for quantum technologies |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Break |
| 10:20 - 11:50 | 2 session: Thermodynamics, Nonequilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Federico Capasso |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Ronnie Kosloff and Roie Dann The quantum Carnot engine and the inertial theorem |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Jürgen T. Stockburger Implicit erasure: A universal paradigm of irreversibility |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Václav Špička, Bedřich Velický, and Anděla Kalvová Dynamics of open systems, fluctuation-dissipation theorems and quantum transport theory |
| 11:50 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | 3 session: Many body physics |
| chairperson: | Joseph Maciejko |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Vladimir Zelevinsky Physics of thermalization and level density in an isolated system of strongly interacting particles |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Takafumi Kita A renormalization-group study of interacting Bose-Einstein condensates: Absence of the Bogoliubov mode below d=4 (T>0) and d=3 (T=0) dimensions |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Michael Guidry On the critical temperature for the superconducting transition |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Cofee break |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Apollo 11: Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, July 20, 1969 |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička, Peter Keefe |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Closing remarks |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička |