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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

14 - 20 July 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

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Tuesday, 16 July 2019

07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Physics of quantum information
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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