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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

14 - 20 July 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

 
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