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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

14 - 20 July 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

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Wednesday, 17 July 2019

07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Thermodynamics and foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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